Taneesha Mohan

Taneesha Mohan is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics (2016) and an MA/M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University (2009), with postdoctoral experience at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York. Her research focuses on critical development geography in South Asia, examining intersections of gender, labor, migration, and climate vulnerability.

Research interests center on:

• Gender inequality in global supply chains (especially shrimp industries in India/Bangladesh)
• Agrarian political economy and labor precarity
• Climate change impacts on vulnerable communities
• Refugee livelihoods (e.g., Rohingya crisis)
• Equitable resilience frameworks for disaster management

Notably, her British Academy-funded postdoc developed transformative approaches to resilience building in Bangladesh, emphasizing subjectivity recognition and institutional inclusion across scales.