Pavithra Suresh

Pavithra Suresh

Pavithra Suresh

Graduate Research Assistant

Diaspora, South Asian-American studies, disability, queer bodies, governmentality and empire

Pavithra Suresh is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies. Though originally from Cary, North Carolina, Pavithra received her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from Hollins University, a tiny women’s college in Roanoke, Virginia. She then received her Master of Arts in Intercultural and International Communication from American University in Washington, DC. Pavithra is currently a graduate fellow with the Center for Humanities Research. She is working on her dissertation about crises of despair in the South Asian American community of Research Triangle, NC. 

Education

M.A. in Intercultural and International Communication - American University

B.A. in International Studies - Hollins University