Shweta Banerjee
First Name:
Shweta
Last Name:
Banerjee
Email :
shweta.banerjee@mail.utoronto.ca
Title:
PhD Program, Vanier Doctoral Scholar
Biography :
Her dissertation provides a historical view of financial infrastructure in India from 1750 - 1947. She is interested in exploring finance as a site of contestation between early modern and modern states and financiers or bankers. In Fall 2021 she is a course instructor for an advanced undergraduate seminar in "Topics in Global Asian Migrations" at the University of Toronto. Before entering the PhD program she has spent several years at the World Bank working on financial inclusion, digitization, and rural livelihood programs in South Asia.
Education:
MA Social Science, University of Chicago
BA Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
BA History, University of Delhi
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1st Major:
South Asian History
1st Minor:
Economic History of Europe
2nd Minor:
Economic Anthropology
Dissertation Supervisors:
Bhavani Raman
