Hi! Welcome to my home page. I am a Ph.D. candidate (ABD; all-but-dissertation) at the Fletcher School, at Tufts University. My doctoral research focuses on the politics of access to land and housing among urbanizing and economically precarious populations in small towns in India. I am interested more broadly in issues of informal work, migration and urbanization.
My dissertation project has received funding support from the Henry J. Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security, the World Peace Foundation, and the American Political Science Association – NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Program.
I am also part of the Peace & Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PC-REP), which is a seven-year research consortium led by the University of Edinburgh Law School. PC-REP is funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO). I have worked as an independent researcher for several years, consulting with the World Bank (WB), the International Labour Organization (ILO), and the Open Society Foundations, among others. During this time, I have worked predominantly on Eastern Africa/the Horn of Africa: I advised the ILO and the Governments of Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia on developing National Employment Policies, and the WB on conflict, displacement, and urbanization. I was a visiting fellow at the World Peace Foundation from 2017-2022, and a researcher on the Conflict Research Programme, which was a multi-year research consortium also funded by the FCDO.
I am a lawyer by training, and am qualified as a lawyer in India and in England and Wales. I have a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a B.A. LL.B. (Hons) from the National Law School of India University in Bangalore.
Aditya Sarkar 