Alfee Rubayet

I am a Bangladeshi geographer and PhD student in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley, where I am a Berkeley Fellow and East-West Gateway Fellow. My research broadly examines labor, political economy, and development in South Asia, and I am particularly drawn to questions that move between the intimate and the structural: between bodies and economies, households and global supply chains, and everyday life and the larger histories of colonialism and development that shape them.

Outside of McCone, I am a lifelong artist working across watercolor, alcohol ink, acrylic, charcoal, and digital media, with work exhibited in Dhaka, London, and New York. I also co-curated Queer Mubarak!, a multidisciplinary exhibition and music project held in New York City in June 2025 that brought together queer cultural production across Islamicate worlds, from the Balkans to Bengal and beyond.