PhD Candidate Sociocultural Anthropology
she/her/hers
Graduated Spring 2022
Research Interests
South Asia, Sundarbans, West Bengal, India; water; morality & ethics; personhood & identity; religion & environment; anthropology of development; climate change
About
Ca
Calynn holds a BA in Political Science and German from Gettysburg College. She completed her MA in Migration Studies as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Sussex in 2011-12. Her MA dissertation explored interpretations of Islamic alms-giving (zakat) among members of the Bangladeshi diaspora active in transnational faith-based NGOs in Tower Hamlets, London.
Awards
- Notre Dame-Templeton Global Religion Research Initiative (GRRI) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2020-21)
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (2018-19)
- American Institute of Bangladesh Studies Junior Research Fellowship (2019)
- Boston University Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (2016, 2019)
- Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow (2017)
- American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellowship, Bengali (2016-2017)
- Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), Bengali (2016)
- CLS Alumni Development Fund Grant, Bengali (2016)
- Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Bengali (2015)
- Boston University Dean’s Fellowship (2014)
Publications
Peer-Reviewed
- 2019 Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River (Yale University Press 2019), by Sudipta Sen in Asian Ethnology 78/2: 500-503.
Non-Peer Reviewed
- 2020 “Water and Human-Nonhuman Agency in India’s Sundarbans,” The Newsletter, 85, Spring 2020. International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University.