Kashish Bastola

Kashish Bastola is a history concentrator in Eliot House and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. He has performed research and curatorial work with the Harvard Forest, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the South Asian American Digital Archive. He was the inaugural Alan Heimert Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and was also a Mississippi Delta Scholar which supported his oral history collection in the American Gulf South. His thesis, supported by the Charles Warren Center for American History, explores covert intelligence in the U.S. and the Tibetan resistance during the Cold War. He was elected early to Phi Beta Kappa and has received the Paton Prize in the Humanities and the John Harvard Scholarship. When he's not in Robinson Hall, Kashish teaches civics to fifth-graders, mentors tenth-graders at the Radcliffe Institute through the Emerging Leaders Program, and enjoys hiking and being outdoors with friends.