Alicia Chatterjee, M.S.W., M.S.Ed, Ph.D. Candidate

Alicia Chatterjee is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice. She has a B.A. in anthropology from Tufts University and a master’s in education and master’s in social work from the University of Pennsylvania. Before beginning her Ph.D., Alicia worked in community mental health and co-founded an arts, activism, and healing project for people affected by sexual and intimate violence, with a focus on supporting queer and of color survivors. She is trained as a therapist and her scholarship is concerned with critical studies of clinical practice in its past and present forms. Her current research brings together decolonial theory and historical methodology to investigate the development of clinical social work in the United States as it articulated alongside global histories of race.