Society of Scholars
The Society of Scholars is an intellectual community of humanists of diverse generations, academic ranks, and departmental affiliations who contribute to and learn from one another’s work. Each year, approximately eight faculty and three dissertation research fellowships support members of the Society of Scholars. Scholars in year-long residence at the University of Washington may be invited to participate as well. The group meets biweekly throughout the year to discuss their research in progress.
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2026 - 2027 Society of Scholars
2019 - 2020 Society of Scholars Fellow
Priti Ramamurthy (she/her/hers)
The Country and the City: Poetic Lives in India's Informal Economy
Poetic Lives will be a general audience book on the lived experiences and desires of women and men, many from subordinated caste groups, who toil in India's cities even as they remain enmeshed in on-going lives in their villages. It brings humanistic insights to bear on the resolutely economistic social science scholarship on informal economies based on over a hundred oral history interviews with poor urban migrants in Delhi and Hyderabad, trips back to their villages, key informant interviews, photographs and mental maps.