Devika Shekhawat

Devika Singh Shekhawat is a writer, educator and researcher from India. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender and labour studies, public health, migration studies, and developmental issues. She is currently a joint Visiting Fulbright Fellow at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the South Asia Program and at Cornell University. Her research explores the nature in which Health and labour operates in tea plantations of Assam. Her work engages with the nature of work, the production process which affects the health of the worker and the conditions for ailments and disease created for the worker within the plantation economy. She has written on the history and memory of indenture in tea plantations Assam, and also published her work on the Ecological Crisis of Shrimp Aquaculture and discourses of migration and infiltration in Coastal Odisha. She has been a part of multiple projects which study the rural public healthcare infrastructure, ecological conservation and labour relations in north east India. She completed her Masters in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and her undergraduate studies in History and Political Science from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi. She is a PhD research scholar at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, New Delhi. Devika can be reached at dss355@cornell.edu.