Deepti Chatti is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and affiliate faculty at the Schatz Energy Research Center. Deepti is an interdisciplinary scholar of the environment whose research sits at the intersection of political ecology, environmental justice, feminist and postcolonial science and technology studies, energy geographies, and South Asian studies. Her current research analyzes development efforts to expand energy access to low income families in rural India. This project focused on “clean cooking” household energy transitions which attempt to abolish the ubiquitous mud stove (mitti ka chulha) from the kitchens of rural India for a variety of health, environmental, and social reasons.