Knox Hall, Room 208
606 West 122nd Street, between Broadway and Claremont
Morningside Campus
Anupama Rao
South Asian Institute
Peter Sutoris is a scholar of development, a documentary filmmaker, and an educator. He is the director and producer of The Undiscovered Country, a film about education, development and environmental degradation in the Marshall Islands. He has lived and worked in South Asia, the Pacific, the Balkans and South Africa. He earned his BA at Dartmouth College, and is a PhD candidate and Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge. His current research focuses on cross-cultural scalability of development interventions, with a focus on environmental education. His book, Visions of Development examines the Indian state’s postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77 through an analysis of films made by the Films Division of India between 1948 and 1975.
Co-sponsored by ICLS and the South Asian Institute
