(Visiting Doctoral Fellow, August 2025 – Present)

Biography:

Tapasya Raj is a PhD candidate at the University of Strasbourg and is affiliated to Sociétés, acteurs, gouvernement en Europe (SAGE). Her research is funded by CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique— the French National Center for Scientific Research). Her research aims to understand how India’s hierarchical structures, particularly caste and gender, influence well-being disparities. By applying an intersectional lens, it will explore how concurrent and overlapping nature of social inequalities intersect to shape an individual’s well-being.

List of Publications:

• Raj, Tapasya, and Srikanth Reddy Umenthala. 2025. “Income Rank and Life Satisfaction: Examining the Relationship with Wealth Inequality among Middle-Aged and Older Indian Adults.” SSM – Population Health 29 (March): 101740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2024.101740.
• Jejeebhoy, Shireen J., Tapasya Raj, and Harihar Sahoo. 2024. “Association of Child and Late Adolescent Marriage and Married Life among Young Women in India, 2019–21.” Economic and Political Weekly 59 (36): 38–44.