dilshanie perera

I am a writer and ethnographer whose research focuses on the intersection of climate and longstanding structural inequalities. My doctoral dissertation in Anthropology at Stanford University examined the politics of atmospheric risk in the context of climate change in Bangladesh. Using ethnographic and archival methods, I examined how contemporary forecasters at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department and coastal farmers in southwest Bangladesh respond to changing environments. I was previously the Mellon Foundation Fellow in Climate and Inequality at the Climate Museum and am currently an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow based at Columbia University, where I am the Climate Humanities Fellow in the Center for Science and Society and a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology.

I’m always eager to hear from researchers, artists, and curators about their work, and I mentor people of all ages and backgrounds who are considering graduate school in the social sciences and humanities — please don’t hesitate to reach out!