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Past Member

Nusrat Chowdhury

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Anthropology
From
Nusrat Chowdhury’s current book project explores the concept of sacrifice for postcolonial development. Ethnographically, Chowdury studies the rumors of sacrifice and violence around particular development megaprojects in Bangladesh as manifestations of larger tensions that arise from legitimizing sacrifice, which is at the core of postcolonial democratic imagination.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

The University of Chicago
Ph.D.
2012
University of Texas at Austin
M.A.
2002
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.A.
1998