Atharva Tewari
2021 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow

Atharva Tewari is a junior at USC. He is majoring in Global Studies and Journalism with a research focus on South and Southeast Asia. Tewari’s research draws on his global studies coursework, journalistic and ethnographic training, and builds on his experience and interest working with refugees. As a high school student, he did relief work at a makeshift Rohingya refugee camp in Delhi. In 2021, after the military coup in Burma, he pursued a semester-long project for USC Annenberg Media to document the country’s present situation through the eyes of Burmese students. He also co-founded a project to document the stories of generations of families who hailed from Chiniot, Pakistan, and were forced to flee their hometown during the partition of India and who settled throughout India. The narratives will be compiled into a book as a part of a project supported by the Chinioti society in Haridwar, India.