Filmmaker

Cast in India documentary Natasha Raheja new york city manhole covers factory

Natasha Raheja is an Assistant Professor in Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. She holds a PhD in Anthropology and a graduate Certificate in Culture and Media from NYU, where she trained in filmmaking at the Tisch School of the Arts. She is a 2015 Flaherty Fellow and Southern Exposure Fellow. Her research interests are in the areas of migration, material flows, and belonging. In Cast in India, she raises questions around the disparate conditions that shape the geographies of production of everyday urban objects. How does the built infrastructure of New York City conceal the labor infrastructure on which it stands?
nraheja at cornell dot edu