Biography
Anamika Das is a Ph.D. student specializing in Linguistic Anthropology. She earned her BA (2021) and MA (2022) in Language and Linguistics from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, and later completed an MA (2024) in English with a concentration in TESOL from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her research interests include identity construction, language maintenance and shift, language documentation, and revitalization. Her doctoral research explores how identity is constructed and negotiated through processes of language maintenance and shift. It also analyzes the key influences of governmentalism and nationalism in shaping identity and visibility among indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts division of Bangladesh.