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Tarika Sankar is a critical scholar specializing in Indo-Caribbean diaspora, race and ethnic studies, feminist studies, and digital humanities. As a Digital Humanities Librarian at the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Brown University Library, she manages multiple digital scholarship projects in collaboration with faculty and teaches workshops on digital humanities methodologies. She is also a lecturer in the Digital Humanities Doctoral Certificate Program. Sankar earned her PhD in English from the University of Miami, where she focused on Digital Humanities and Caribbean Studies, and she received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her dissertation titled "Beyond Culture Concept: Indo-Caribbean Identity and Diasporic Consciousness." Her research has been published in several academic journals, including the Journal of Indentureship Legacies and the Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies. Sankar's work reflects her commitment to exploring the complexities of identity within the Indo-Caribbean context and contributing to feminist scholarship in the digital age.
Department: Department of Economics