I am an incoming doctoral student and Graduate Center Fellow at The City University of New York. I will be joining the Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) department to study stigma using an intersectionality framework. More specifically, I aim to investigate how occupying multiply stigmatized positions influences perception and response to prejudice with a special focus on religious identity. I am additionally interested in understanding the real-world consequences of experiencing multiple identity threats.
Prior to this, I was a research intern at the Sidanius Intergroup Relations Lab at Harvard University, where I was involved with several projects on identity, prototypicality and intersectionality. I also worked both as a Research Assistant and Program Manager for a study funded by the International Growth Centre, UK.
I have a Masters degree in Applied Psychology (summa cum laude) from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. My thesis explored the experiences of Hijabi Muslim women in India using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory (1979); a paper drawn from this study has been published in Human Arenas (Rumaney and Sriram, 2021).