Ishaan Anavkar
Graduate student
Population Science and Policy
About me
Gender
Male
Additional languages spoken
Hindi,
Marathi,
Intermediate: Spanish,
Basic: French
Education & training
Graduate Degree
Master of Arts, Social Sciences, historical geography of colonialism in the Middle East, South Asia, and North America, University of Chicago
Undergraduate Degree
Bachelor of Arts in Honors History, International Politics, and Geography, Minors in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Geographic Information Science, Pennsylvania State University
Publications
For Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College, Ishaan wrote his thesis on Middle Eastern history, with Lior Sternfeld and Cathleen Cahill as his advisors, titled “The Post-WWI Partition of the Ottoman Empire: How Great Britain and France Carved Out the Modern State Order in the Fertile Crescent.”
He is currently writing his Master’s thesis at UChicago in historical geography under Michael Conzen, titled “The Making of Early Colonial India: A Geographical Synthesis of European Colonial Engagement in Indian History, 1498-1857.”