Naomi Hazarika, PhD student in Geography, has received the prestigious Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Grant funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Foundation funds doctoral or thesis research that advances anthropological knowledge and particularly welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches and ideas.

This dissertation fieldwork grant will fund a year-long ethnographic fieldwork in informal settlements in the city of Delhi, India for her dissertation research tentatively titled ‘Urban ‘Re’-development: Financialization, Caste and Embodied Infrastructural Realities of Slum Redevelopment in Delhi, India’.

Her dissertation examines a policy of slum redevelopment called “In-Situ Slum Redevelopment and Rehabilitation on Public-Private Partnership Model 2019” implemented by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) in the city of Delhi and aims to study the historical and geographic contingencies that make it possible for private capital and the postcolonial state to push for projects that translate into the dispossession and displacement of historically marginalized communities in Indian cities. Studying an urban infrastructural project as an ethnographic site, her study uses a multi-scalar, embodied approach to argue how dispossessions around urban redevelopment and housing remain simultaneously rooted in the everyday, lived, and bodily dimensions and in the processes of capital and finance.

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Naomi Hazarika wins AAG Fellowship Award 2023 

Naomi Hazarika, PhD student of Geography, has been awarded the AAG-Urban Geography Speciality Group Graduate Student Fellowship Award 2023. The Fellowship is intended to provide targeted support for original Master's research and for early-stage doctoral dissertation research – while also ensuring award recipients have well-developed research proposals. Naomi was awarded by the Urban Geography Speciality Group Board members in person at the AAG Annual Meeting 2023 held in Denver. 

The Fellowship award will help Naomi with travel and living expenses as she travels to India for a year to do fieldwork for her dissertation tentatively titled ‘Urban ‘Re’-development: Financialization, Caste and Embodied Infrastructural Realities of Slum Redevelopment in Delhi, India’. 

Naomi Hazarika wins AAG Council Award for Best Graduate Student Paper at the GPRM Regional Division meeting

Naomi Hazarika, PhD student of Geography, has been announced as the Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting winner of the Best Graduate Paper Award 2022. The title of her paper is “Urban ‘Re’-development: Geographies of Caste and the Embodied Infrastructural Realities of Slum Redevelopment in Delhi, India.”

This award is designed to encourage undergraduate and graduate student participation at AAG Regional Division meetings and support their attendance at AAG Annual Meetings. Naomi will receive $1,000 in funding for use towards the registration and travel costs to the AAG Annual Meeting where she will present her paper along with the awardees from all the other regions.

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Congratulations to Naomi, Prakriti, and Priscilla!

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