Esha Meher is a doctoral candidate at Yale's Department of Religious Studies. Her research lies at the intersection of law, race, and identity in post colonial contexts. She studies how colonial law and its concomitant racial classifications create conflicts over sacred spaces, identities and indigenous rights. Her research takes a comparative and connective approach spanning over contested sacred sites in South Asia, Israel-Palestine and the United States.
Prior to her time at Yale, Esha practiced law in India and the United Kingdom. She has graduate degrees in law and religion from the London School of Economics in the UK and Yale University in the United States.