RESEARCH
Faculty Grants, New Books and Awards Each year, the Mittal Institute supports faculty research projects with grants to fund scholars from a variety of fields, disciplines and regions whose research relates to South Asia. Faculty Grants
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ach year, the Mittal Institute supports research projects that bring together faculty from different fields and regions whose scholarship relates to South Asia. Traditionally, the Mittal Institute has prioritized interdisciplinary research, as well as projects that catalyze connectivity between scholars at Harvard and those in South Asia. For the 2022-2023 academic year, the Institute awarded the highest number of grantees in the organization’s history with over $130,000 in funding. 2022-23 recipients include: Satchit Balsari, Caroline Buckee A Data Repository for Disaster Response in India Homi Bhabha The Right to Interpretation Caleb Dresser Climate Change, Health Security and Emergency Care in India: An Exploratory Evaluation
Asim Ijaz Khwaja Increasing Salience to Rebuild the Social Compact: Urban Service Delivery and Property Taxes in Pakistan Jinah Kim Mapping Color in History in Action: Mobile Heritage Lab for Scientific Analysis of Paintings in India Gabriel Kreindler Measuring Spatial Frictions in Urban Labor Markets in the Bangladesh ReadyMade Garment Sector Elizabeth Levey, Alexandra Harrison A feasibility Study of the Building Baby Brains Training Program for Health Workers in Rural Pakistan Mashail Malik Who Owns the City? Migration, Ownership and Urban Ethnic Parties in Karachi Rahul Mehrotra The State of Architecture in South Asia
Venki Murthy Scienspur: Building a better society through STEM education Gautam Nair Financial Politics in Contemporary India Vikram Patel Evaluating the Preliminary Impacts, Feasibility, Acceptability, and Sustainability of MeWeSports: A Sports-mediated Substance-use Prevention Program in Adolescents in India Ajay K. Singh Education to Combat Vaccine Hesitancy Kristen Stilt Halal Animals: Food, Faith, and the Future of Planetary Health Adaner Usmani The History of Punishment in India Kavishwar Wagholikar Feasibility of Deploying an Open-source Analytical Platform for Electronic Health Records in India
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University
