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Deepti Chatti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and serves as core faculty in the Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California San Diego. With a background as an engineer turned ethnographer, Dr. Chatti incorporates interdisciplinary training from the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and engineering to tackle pressing socio-environmental issues related to sustainable development, energy access, climate change, and gender justice. As a collaborative and engaged scholar, she partners with community-based organizations in India and the United States to conduct her research. Dr. Chatti’s scholarship has been published in notable journals including Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that draws on long-term, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork focused on energy access, air pollution, and climate justice in India. Her research has received support from various initiatives and awards, underlining her commitment to advancing knowledge in her field.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).