BIO
Nishita Trisal is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She previously held a UCI ADVANCE Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology in August 2020 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Her book manuscript, Banking on Uncertainty: Debt, Default, and Violence in Indian-Administered Kashmir, is based on 26 months of ethnographic and archival research conducted in Srinagar, Kashmir and New Delhi, India. It follows employees at a large bank branch in Srinagar as well as bank customers, loan borrowers and guarantors, financial planners, and journalists.
Intervening in the scholarly and public conversations on financial crisis and political instability, Banking on Uncertainty examines how violence and volatility transform everyday banking and financial transactions and what such transformations tell us about the nature of finance and sovereignty more generally.
Nishita's research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Rackham Graduate School.
