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CSSR Urban Research Hub presents a talk by Malini Ranganathan

Upcoming Event
Monday, April 15, 2024 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
Horizon Hall, 6325

In urban India, the loss of land rights, unsafe sanitation work, and flood and climate change risk—what I refer to as "environmental unfreedoms"—are structured by caste violence, Islamophobia, and gender and class hierarchies in ways that critical scholarship has yet to take stock of. Based on a book...

Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

Lester Kurtz is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict (4 vols., Elsevier Academic) and The Warrior and the Pacifist (Routledge), co-editor of Women, War, and Violence (2 vols., Praeger), Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell), The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movemen...

Rashmi Sadana

Rashmi Sadana

Rashmi Sadana (PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 2003) is a cultural anthropologist whose field research focuses on changing forms of identity (class, caste, gender, religious, linguistic) in postcolonial, urban India. She is especially interested in how Indians express their modern and increas...

Karthik Ramanujam

Karthik Ramanujam

Karthik is a Doctoral student in Sociology at George Mason University. He completed a Masters in Sociology from Florida Atlantic University, where he focused on sections including labor and agrarian politics, critical sociology and world-systems theory. His current research interests are centered on ...

Manjusha Nair

Manjusha Nair

I completed my PhD in sociology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2011 and joined the National University of Singapore,  as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Sociology. After six years of teaching in Asia, I moved in Fall 2017 to the United States as a Tenure Track Assistant Pro...

BA in Anthropology

The BA in anthropology helps students acquire an understanding of human culture, language, and biology. They develop analytical skills, strong writing skills, and a thoroughly cross-cultural perspective.