Graduate Associate
megh21[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Science and Technology Studies, York University
Research Keywords:
Environmental politics; wildlife conservation; South Asian history; human geography; forest governance
Research Region(s):
India, South Asia
Research Diaspora(s):
Meghana is a doctoral candidate in the Science and Technology Studies Department at York University. She studies the politics of wildlife conservation in the Global South, where she conducts archival and ethnographic research on forest governance, indigenous land rights, and the illegal wildlife trade. These days, she is most interested in the technologies that drive conservation in India, and how communities living on the peripheries of wildlife reserves interact with these evolving technologies.
Meghana has experience in public policy, nonprofit fundraising, and university administration. Before coming to York, she graduated with a Masters in Literature and Modernity from the University of Edinburgh, and from the Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University. She holds a BA in English from Lady Shri Ram College at the University of Delhi.