Vasudha Ramakrishna

Vasudha Ramakrishna is a Summer in the Field Fellow, 2024 and a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Boston University.

For her Summer in the Field Fellowship, Vasudha plans interview a sample of government officials, religious leaders and households with a recent deceased family member to study the barriers to death registration in Ghana. She also intends to do research on collective action and caste in the context of India, planning to interview historians of caste and anti-caste activists. Vasudha also hopes to do archival research using newspapers from the late 19^th century by accessing both digital and physical records available in archives in India.