Dixita Deka - Memory & Mourning Installation

Dixita Deka is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Agrarian Studies at MacMillan Center, Yale University. She completed her PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus. She is an interdisciplinary researcher from Assam in Northeast India. Her research interests include insurgency in Northeast India, gender studies, and food cultures in the Eastern Himalayas. Currently, she is preparing her book manuscript, Underground Women, on the lives of women insurgents from Assam and also following the farming journeys of the former insurgents. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the North Eastern Social Research Centre (NESRC), Guwahati.