Bidisha Mukherjee

Bidisha is a PhD student in the Medical Humanities track of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UW Madison. She is interested in understanding the nuances of health and medicine and how they are shaped by prolonged militarization. Before coming to UW, she completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Bangla literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and a subsequent Master’s in Gender Studies from Ambedkar University Delhi. Her doctoral inquiries are a cumulative outcome of her experiences during prior degrees when she wrote theses, conducted research, and did fieldwork around questions of gender and various forms of historical violence against women. With the Scott Kloeck Jenson Fellowship, she plans to address a similar mode of violence, focusing on an imminent threat to the archives of enforced disappearances in Kashmir. She will be spending time tracing the archive’s movements and afterlives in the Kashmir valley.