Alisha Elizabeth Cherian

Alisha Elizabeth Cherian is a PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Her dissertation investigates how enforced racial integration shapes racial formations and race relations in Singapore. Her research explores Indian Singaporean public urban life through everyday encounters and interactions that are structured, but not overdetermined, by the state's multiracial policies as well as colonial histories and regional legacies of Indian indentured and convict labour.

She received her BA from Vassar College in Anthropology and Drama with a correlate in Asian Studies, and her MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.