Economics Ph.D. student Aneesha Parvathaneni was recently selected to receive a Rackham International Student Fellowship. This fellowship honors outstanding international graduate students, who are nominated by their department and provides a generous financial award that can be used as tuition or a stipend.
Aneesha received the award in the Winter 2024 semester and used it as a stipend. She said that it “enabled [her] to devote more time to [her] research” than she otherwise would have been able to. With this time, she was able to apply for additional research grants, travel to, and present at conferences, and spend time interacting with economic scholars in her field.
Before coming to Michigan, Aneesha received degrees from Indraprastha College for Women, New Delhi (B.A. (Honors) Economics) and the London School of Economics (MSc in Economics). She has worked as a Research Associate for the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and spent two years as a Tobin Predoctoral Fellow at Yale. She hopes to finish her Ph.D. in Winter 2027.
