Sushmita Sihwag
Research Associate
National Maritime FoundationAreas of Research
- India’s own maritime geostrategies within the Indo-Pacific in juxtaposition of the various
maritime geostrategies of ASEAN and its member States.
Education
- M.A. (Hons) in Liberal Studies, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana (2018)
- B.A. (Hons) in English, Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi
(2016)
Experience
- Research Intern, National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi (2024)
- Freelance Transcription, Nalanda Master’s Course, Tibet House, New Delhi (2017-21)
- Intern, GallerySKE, India Art Fair (2019)
- Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana (2017-18)
- Volunteer, DISCOVER Education, AIESEC, Romania (2017)
- Copywriting Intern, J Walter Thompson, Gurugram (2015)
Presentations
- Sihwag, Sushmita. “Homecoming of the Exile as a Cosmopolitan Tourist.” Paper presented
at the XXI International Conference on “Revisiting Cosmopolitanism,” organised by the
Forum on Contemporary Theory in collaboration with the International Lincoln Center for
American Studies at Louisiana State University, Puri, Odisha, December 2018. - Sihwag, Sushmita. “Memory, Narrativisation, and the Struggle for an ‘I’: Issues of Identity in
the Tibetan Memoir.” Paper presented at the IX Annual Seminar on “The Enigma of Story:
Lived Experience, Time and Narrative,” organised by the Balvant Parekh Centre for General
Semantics and Other Human Sciences, Baroda, Gujarat, March 2018.
