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Asha Sawhney

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Contact Information

702 S Wright St.
3059 Lincoln Hall
Urbana, IL 61801

Office Hours

Monday 9am-12pm

Biography

Asha Sawhney is a third year PhD student interested in the intersection of sociology and human geographies. Her primary field site is Delhi, India where she is conducting ongoing ethnographic research with Afghan refugees and the spaces they have constructed in the urban landscape. Another current project of hers is studying crisis infrastructures constructed by ordinary people in times of social unrest, such as oxygen distribution channels in the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Research Interests

Migration 

Critical Infrastructures 

Social Movements 

Collective Behavior 

Urban Sociology

South Asia 

Awards and Honors

Illinois Distinguished Fellowship 2020-2023