Tanushree Kaushal is a lecturer working at the cross section of feminist political economy, financial anthropology and postcolonial studies of capitalism. She works with multiple research methods including ethnography, photo elicitation, interviews and analysis of financial datasets. Methodologically, she is interested in studying 'up' and studying 'down' to engage with processes of finance across North-South geographies. She completed her PhD (summa cum laude) from the Geneva Graduate Institute where she has been affiliated with the Gender Centre and the Centre for Finance and Development. Previously, she was a visiting research fellow at the University of Edinburgh and at the Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi. She has been in key advising and research roles for international institutions including the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom and the UN Business & Human Rights Group.
Her PhD research looked at the relations between labour and finance, including the hierarchies of gendered and racialised labour that enable the production of financial value. She has published extensively including on themes ranging from politics of Indian microfinance, imperial residues of contemporary developmental finance, everyday practices of financial inclusion and social finance investors' navigation between data, faith and activism. She is currently preparing a book on women's vernacular critiques of financial concepts and the gendered labour of producing financial value.
