BUSSW PhD Candidate Awarded Fellowship to Examine Delhi’s Dalit Community
The Boston University Center on Forced Displacement awarded a highly competitive summer fellowship to BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) PhD student Mohit Tamta.
The fellowship, which provides mentorship and a stipend, supports Tamta’s doctoral research on the Dalit individuals living in the informal settlements of Delhi. His dissertation will explore how state-endorsed demolitions and evictions in informal settlements impact individuals’ socioeconomic well-being.
A third-year student in BUSSW’s PhD in Social Work Program, Tamta studies homelessness, urban poverty, and housing informality. He is passionate advocate for housing rights and community-based interventions that seek to uplift the lives of the urban poor living in low-resource countries. Before moving to the United States, Mohit worked with various non-profit and government research institutions in New Delhi, India.