Jayanth Uppaluri

Fulbright/University of Leeds Award

Jayanth Uppaluri graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2024 with a B.A in Government (high honors) and Music. His research mainly focuses on public opinion on disability in the United States, an understudied part of the field. His senior honors thesis focused on public opinion of disability policy, and he is also working on papers involving discrimination against disabled politicians and college applicants. Outside the classroom, Jayanth has worked in disability activism in multiple ways: working to revitalize the disability activism club at his college, working at a disability policy think tank in Washington D.C, and interning at the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office in the elder and disabled care unit. At the University of Leeds, Jayanth will be pursuing an MSc in Political Science, where he hopes to conduct research on differential public opinion on disability policy between the US and UK and continue the long history of disability studies at the university.

Outside of politics, Jayanth is an avid musician and multi-instrumentalist who hopes to find musicians to gig around the city of Leeds with. He’s also excited to be in a country with a large South Asian population, and will be traveling around in search of the best dosa in the United Kingdom.