Ishani Dasgupta is an Assistant Instructional Professor of Human Rights at the Social Sciences Division. She earned a joint PhD with distinction in Anthropology and South Asia Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she served as an Andrew W. Mellon HILLS Postdoctoral Scholar at Case Western Reserve University (2023) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville (2022).

Her research focuses on Tibetan refugee settlements and communities in India, where she collaborated closely with grassroots political organizations to explore their culture of resistance. Her work has been supported by several institutions, including the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Her work has been published in Political and Legal Anthropological Review and Himalaya.  Currently, she is developing her dissertation into a book titled Refugee Nation. Ishani is committed to centering refugee voices in critical conversations surrounding refugee policies and rehabilitation practices.