Georgetown University

Dissertation: Navigating Tensions and Conflicts in Search of Harmony: Teacher Ideologies between Colonial Legacies and Indigenous Futures in Tribal India.

My doctoral research explored how teachers working in rural Indigenous communities navigate the challenges of supporting students’ cultural and linguistic identities and tribal heritage while meeting state curriculum expectations. I used Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis to analyze interviews and fieldnotes.

MS in Linguistics

Thesis: Impact of Covid-19 in Rural Vernacular-Medium Tribal Schools in India: Challenges, Responses, and Teachers’ Resilience

Selected coursework: Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism, Decolonizing Linguistics Language Policy, Research Methodology, Semantics and Pragmatics, Syntax, and Phonology.

MA in English Language Teaching

Dissertaion: Schoolscape, exposure, and language policy: A Study of the early childhood schoolscape of a tribal child

Selected coursework: Approaches to Language Teaching, Materials & Curriculum Development, Language Assessment & Feedback, Academic Writing, and English for Specific Purposes.

• M.A. 2017-2019

  The Bhopal School of Social Sciences

English Literature |Minor: Philosophy

Thesis: The Price of Partition: An Analysis of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Short Story “Open It”