Tanushree KAUSHAL
(Visiting PhD student, 18 November 2024 – 31 January 2025)
BIOGRAPHY:
Tanushree Kaushal is a doctoral researcher at the Gender Centre and Centre for Finance and Development at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She was previously a visiting research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on intersections of gender, state policies and finance, particularly the effects and challenges around extension of financial services to women borrowers and marginalized populations. This explores how finance is produced across multiple scales – in “international” Geneva, national regulation in New Delhi and everyday practices of credit in West Bengal. Her research project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and bridges political anthropology, feminist political theory and international relations. She has experience in teaching graduate-level coursework on gender studies and contemporary finance and has been a research contributor to projects on financialisation of the pharma sector with the Global Health Centre, Geneva and a researcher for the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.
She has previously worked as a consultant for feminist organizations such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Geneva on gender and political economy in Cameroon and West Africa, and has experience working with both government and non-government organizations working on gender and legal protection in India and the Netherlands. She has been an advisor to the United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women and girls.
Publications:
- “Invested in the ‘good woman’: The gender inclusion agenda across registers of finance” (Forthcoming, December 2024). Finance and Society.
- Kaushal, Tanushree. 2023. Book Review. The Women Who Made Modern Economics, LSE Review of Books.
- Kaushal, Tanushree. 2022. The Aestheticisation of Governance in India: The Appeal of Urban Aesthetics in Microfinance. International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement. 14(1).
- Kaushal, Tanushree. 2020. Contextually Engendering Conflict Analysis: The Case of the Anglophone conflict in Cameroon. Working Paper 11 | 2020. Geneva: Gender Centre, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
- Kaushal, Tanushree. 2019. Defining Gender for International Criminal Law and Human Rights Law: Translating Feminist Theorisations. Working Paper 10 | 2019. Geneva: Gender Centre, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
