Neepa Acharya

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Neepa

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Malasree Neepa Acharya joins the IES as a Doctoral Researcher in the Migration, Diversity and Human Rights cluster. In 2006, Neepa received her B.A. with honors and distinction from Stanford University (California, USA), with a double major in Public Policy and Music. Her Bachelor's thesis, "Welfare Reform and the Alaska Native: Analyzing the Incentives for Alaska Natives to Participate in Welfare and Public Assistance Programs" received the Robyn R. Noll Prize for Outstanding Policy Thesis (2006) as well as the CTL-URP Award for Best Thesis Presentation (2006). In 2007, Neepa received an M.A. in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Stanford University with a focus on South Asian postcolonial studies. Neepa's research interests have been interdisciplinary--combining qualitative ethnographic enquiry with quantitative analysis to investigate policy issues at local and global levels. After finishing two summers of fieldwork in Alaska and working for current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, in Washington D.C., Neepa continued her work in Alaska as a consulting research analyst on Alaska Native Medicaid reform issues at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. In the fall of 2007, Neepa arrived in Belgium as a fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation, pursuing musicological research and baroque violin performance at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel with world-renowned musical pedagogue, Sigiswald Kuijken. Neepa continued her research and studies in 2008 as an International Visiting Fellow of the Vlaamse Overheid. In October 2009, Neepa began her doctoral work at the IES with a project entitled: 'Policing the Brain-gain: Cross-border Social Networks in South Asian Migration Trends and Governance Implications in the Global North and South.' She aims to conduct interdisciplinary work integrating a multi-sited ethnography of India, the Silicon Valley (USA), London (UK) and Sophia Antipolis (France) with current movements of EU-India migration and mobility policy.

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Researcher Migration and Diversity

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+32 (0)2/629.1572

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+32 (0)2/629.1809

Activities, publications

Fields of Activity

Socioeconomics and social capital of transnational migration and global governance, Global South cities and development, access-to-care and public ownership of social and health policy, experimental economic theories of risk management, postcolonial cultural theory, subjectivity formation through banality and sacrifice, South Asia and Alaska Native area studies, arts grants funding, and public service in academic research.

List of External Publications

- “The Economic Impacts of Paraprofessional Health Aide Programs on the Village and Regional Economies Model, Technical Report, Medicaid Template And User Guide,” prepared for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage, 2007. -“Red Dog TANF Work Program Summary and Proposal,” in An Analysis of Economic Significance and Impact in Red Dog Mines Alaska, ISER, University of Alaska-Anchorage, 2007. - Pastoral Nostalgia and Urban Imagination in Jibanmukhi gaan in Calcutta (1974-1994); under Dr. Paulla Ebron and Dr. Ewa Domanska, Stanford University, September 2007. - “Welfare Reform and the Alaska Native: Analyzing the Incentives for Alaska Natives to Participate in Welfare and Public Assistance Programs,” under Dr. John B. Shoven, Stanford University, June 2006, ISER, University of Alaska-Anchorage, September 2006.

List of engagements

- ‘Reconstituting Banality,’ presented at the Instytut Historii, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Poznan, Poland, January 2008. http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~ewa/Neepa_Acharya_guest_seminar.htm - ‘The Economic Significance and Impact of a Marginal Change in Health Aide Staffing:’ Tutorial on Using the Virtual Model, presented at the Alaska Native American Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska, 2007.

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