Sanjukta Sarkar is a South Asian feminist and fourth-year interdisciplinary PhD scholar in Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of Arizona; studying to major in Diversity & Social Justice in Education with an emphasis on Migration and Education and double minor in Literacy and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. She holds a Masters in English Literature from the University of Calcutta and worked with diverse communities as a former English and Public Speaking teacher. Presently she works as the managing editor of the Journal of Environmental Education; serves on the boards of Division G Graduate Student Executive Committee, AERA and Women Founders Collective; and has formerly served on the boards of AZTESOL and Doctoral Student Innovative Community Group, LRA. She was awarded the College of Education Erasmus Circle Scholarship for 2023-2024 and the 2023 Summer Institute Fellowship in Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Research Methods at George Mason University, and has held a Jewell Lewis Scholarship for Literacy Acquisition, Development, and Pedagogy between 2021 and 2023. Through a 2023-2024 Paul Lindsey internship with the Borderlands Education Center and Make Way For Books, she has been developing and facilitating a literacy curriculum for families-in-transit at Casa Alitas, Tucson’s migrant shelter system. She recently received the 2024 Mellon-Fronteridades Graduate Fellowship to build on this work and help address her burning questions on mobile pedagogies and feminist resistance in mobility and displacement.
