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Pratyusha Basu has a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, an M. Phil. in Planning and Development from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and an M.A. in Geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her research and teaching interests include agrarian transitions, gender and development, precarious urbanization, and environmental dispossessions, with a regional focus on India and Kenya. Her publications include two books which focus on transformations in agricultural and industrial work. Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India provides an ethnographic account of women’s participation in small-scale dairying in rural India. Her co-authored book, Emerging Work Trends in Urban India, examined the role of new digital technologies in reshaping industrial and service work in India. Her research has been published in a variety of journals, including the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Professional Geographer, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, Women’s Studies International Forum, and Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. She has also been the recipient of a Fulbright Research Award which funded her fieldwork on gender and small-scale dairying in Kenya.