2026 Fellow

Esha Meher

PhD Candidate

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Institution:

Yale University

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Department of Religious Studies

Esha Meher is a scholar of law and religion at Yale studying contestations around sacred spaces in South Asia.

Esha Meher is a scholar of religion and law focusing on the making and unmaking of contested sacred spaces in South Asia. She is a lawyer by training and has practiced Constitutional and Human Rights Law in India, UK and Bangladesh. Prior to pursuing her doctoral research, she studied law and religion as the William C Sengel Scholar and the Nelle Martin Tuggel Scholar at Yale. When not in the archives, she can be found hiking accompanied by her favorite cat, Zelda.

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