Gaiutra Bahadur
Background
Gaiutra Bahadur is a Guyanese-American author, journalist, essayist, and academic. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University. She is an Associate Professor of Arts, Culture, and Media as well as Journalism and English at Rutgers University–Newark. She is the author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (2013), a major non-fiction work shortlisted for the Orwell Prize that examines the history of indentured la
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Jersey City / Newark, New Jersey, United States / Guyana
Occupation:
• Rutgers University–Newark (Associate Professor)
• Harvard University (Former Nieman Fellow and Hutchins Center Fellow)
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About: - Gaiutra Bahadur is a Guyanese-American author, journalist, essayist, and academic. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University. She is an Associate Professor of Arts, Culture, and Media as well as Journalism and English at Rutgers University–Newark. She is the author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (2013), a major non-fiction work shortlisted for the Orwell Prize that examines the history of indentured labor, gender, power, and colonial displacement across the South Asian diaspora in the Caribbean. Her investigative reporting, essays, and literary criticism focus on migration, labor histories, colonialism, resource extraction, and gender.