Kavita Gawrinauth is a Ph.D. student in History at New York University. Her research focuses on Indo-Guyanese migration, religion, identity, and diaspora, with particular attention to how communities reconstruct religious and cultural life across empire, postcolonial Guyana, and immigrant New York.
As the daughter of Indo-Guyanese immigrants, her work is rooted in both scholarly inquiry and lived history. She is especially interested in mandirs, devotional music, oral memory, and community archives as sites where Indo-Guyanese people preserve, adapt, and reinterpret their past.
Her broader interests include Caribbean history, South Asian diaspora, Asian American history, oral history, religious studies, public humanities, and transnational migration.
