Sayantika Chakraborty

Sayantika Chakraborty received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida in the summer of 2026. Her dissertation titled "Displacement and Emplacement: Climate Migration Stories by Indigenous and Marginalized Women from India", looks at the oft-obscured environmental stories of women migrants from minority communities in India/the Global South. She is currently employed as an Engaged Humanities postdoctoral fellow at the Humanities Center at Syracuse University, and is working on her monograph titled Histories in Common: Environmental Violence, Water Governance, and Indigenous Women Activism in South Asia. In her monograph, Chakraborty initiates a dialogue between forcefully displaced Indigenous women migrants across South Asia (India, Bangladesh, and Nepal), with a focus on their role as water protectors in a time when water has turned into a tool for human consumption, capitalist profit, and colonial control.