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Rucha Ambikar

Research Associate
rucha@u.washington.edu

Tel: 206.543.3084

Rucha Ambikar is a Research Associate at the Center for Information & Society at the University of Washington.  She is finishing her doctorate in Social & Cultural Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and hopes to be done by this summer. Her dissertation focused on schools run by religious-right wing organizations in India and she specializes in qualitative research methods.  She is interested in issues of sustainable development, and the intersections of gender, religion and nationalism. Her research work to date has been focused on South Asia. She also holds master’s degrees in Mass Communication from Marquette University, WI and in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She enjoys cooking and reading murder mysteries in her spare time.