Ipshita Ghosh

Ms. Ghosh is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Maxwell School, Syracuse University, with interests in global finance, social movements, development and humanitarianism. Her research, centered in India, examines entrepreneurship as a cultural formation with multiple actors, ideologies and values at play. Ipshita’s dissertation looks at the ways in which state policy and global investment capital reframe the heterogenous strands of entrepreneurial activity in India into a single narrative that reproduces a neoliberal startup culture and reinstates socio-economic hierarchies. Ipshita also enjoys teaching anthropology and building productive dialogues across disciplines, in and outside the classroom.

Ipshita holds a Master’s in Contemporary India Studies from University of Oxford, a Master’s in Public Administration from Maxwell School, Syracuse University and a Bachelor with Honors in English from Delhi University.

Samantha Streuli

Samantha Streuli is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UCSD. Her work is broadly focused on health disparities, disability, and public health interventions, especially among migrants and refugees. She is particularly interested in how technology may be leveraged in the development of interventions and how conceptualizations of dis/ability impact the experiences of migrants and refugees.