Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa: Laidlaw Summer 2022
For my second summer in the Laidlaw Scholars Program, I worked with Professor Sneha Krishnan at the University of Oxford on a project entitled "Intimate Internationalisms," which seeks to trace networks of Indian, Anglo-Indian, and British missionary women who attended Oxford in the 1920s-30s. The project, a part of the Oxford and Empire Network, is meant to support both future academic research and a public history exhibit hosted at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, this coming year. I also wrote a short post at the start of my project for the Columbia Undergraduate Research Blog, linked here.
I am an alumna of the 2021-22 Columbia Laidlaw Scholars cohort, and graduated from Columbia (CC'24) with majors in History and Mathematics. My Laidlaw research centered on the women's movement in early twentieth-century British India. My first summer focused on the Indian writer, educator, and activist Mahadevi Varma, and my second summer focused on networks of women from across the British empire attending the Oxford in the 1910s-30s at the Unstable Archives Project.
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