Baishali Bhaumik is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Iowa, advised by Dr. Meena Khandelwal. She holds a BA in Sociology from Calcutta University, an MA from Presidency University, and an MPhil from Jadavpur University. Her research explores gendered labor, environmental precarity, feminist political economy, and human–animal relationships in the Sundarbans, with attention to reproductive health, informal labor, sex work, and ecological governance.