Bhavini Sai Kakani studied International Relations and Economics at New York University, graduating cum laude in 2018 and again in 2019 with a master’s degree under the accelerated B.A.-M.A. track. Her undergraduate honors thesis, for which she received the Fiona McGillivray Prize for Best Thesis in International Political Economy, analyzed the impact of globalization on German labor markets and anti-globalization rhetoric in the rise of populism. Her master’s thesis analyzed utopian themes in Cold War-era political projects—like the World Order Models Project—and novels—like Le Guin’s the Dispossessed. While at NYU, Bhavini also interned at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations, where she helped NGOs working to alleviate the inequalities of globalization and climate change achieve consultative status.
In 2019, Bhavini moved to Beijing to study Chinese literature and culture at the Yenching Academy of Peking University. Her master’s thesis examined how Third World revolutionary movements and solidarity were expressed in transnational literary journals during the Cold War. Bhavini’s prevailing research interests include the history of international relations and 20th century anticolonial movements. Returning to NYU as an IILJ scholar, Bhavini hopes to explore actionable ways of continuing the work of decolonization, focusing specifically on international institutions and climate justice.
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