Karthik Ramanujam

Graduate Research Assistant

Sociology: Culture, Globalization, Political Sociology

Karthik is a Doctoral candidate in Sociology at George Mason University. He completed a Masters in Sociology from Florida Atlantic University, where he focused on sections including agrarian labor, political economy and world-systems theory. His current research interests are centered on understanding world historical processes such as globalization, nationalism and, neoliberalism to explore the changing social dynamics. In his dissertation work, he aims to focus on professional workers in India to understand how they adopt new values from their journeys towards becoming successful professionals, and how that process influences their politics. He aims to explore how these workers navigate the synergies and contradictions stemming from their market-demanded cultural values, to help us understand how the market society in India operates in everyday lives.

Karthik is originally from India and spent most of his life in the city of Chennai. In the past, he has worked as a Production Manager, an Electrical Engineer and a Management Consultant. He wants to pursue an interdisciplinary approach to understanding our globalizing society and produce works that help us create a better future world in-line with the purpose of "a public sociology". In his free time, he goes hiking and attempts some nature and landscape photography.

Selected Publications

Hough, P., L. López, V. de Becze, K. Ramanujam, and C. Burggraff. 2024. "Beyond the Fields: Solidarity Narratives and Coalition Building in the Fair Food Movement." Global Labour Journal 15(3).

Education

- MA, Sociology, Florida Atlantic University (2021)

- MBA, Industrial Management, Indian Institute of Management (Mumbai), India (2016)

- B. Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology (Tiruchirappalli), India (2012)