Avash Bhandari
PIF Fellow
About
Avash Bhandari is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at UIC and a recipient of PIF Fellowship. His doctoral research focuses on the social and environmental history of northern South Asia and Nepal in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. He concentrates specifically on forests on the southern frontier of Nepal and how various forest resources were extracted and mobilized by the non-colonial Gorkhali/Nepali state in the broader context of British imperialism in South Asia.
He holds a master’s degree in Sociology from Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal. He was Tasveer Ghar’s “Manly Matters: Representation of Maleness in South Asian Popular Visual Practice” Fellow from 2017-18. He has published several articles and book reviews in journals and online portals such as Studies in Nepali History and Society, Samaj Adhyayan, Asian Ethnology, and Tasveer Ghar. His publications are available at https://uic.academia.edu/AvashBhandari.