Rianka Roy

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D. (expected): Sociology, University of Connecticut
  • M.A. Sociology, University of Connecticut
  • Ph.D., Media Culture and Communication, Jadavpur University
  • M.Phil., M.A. & B.A., English literature, Jadavpur University

Graduate Certificates: (1) Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies; (2) Human Rights

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Carcerality
  • Coloniality
  • Culture
  • Ethnography
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Globalization and Global Sociology
  • Intersectionality
  • Labor and Labor Movements
  • Migration
  • Qualitative Research
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Social Movements
  • Sociological Theories
  • South Asia
  • Technology

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

In my dissertation, I study how globalization and technology reproduce social inequalities, create new pathways of migration, and engender new forms of resistance. I examine Indian tech workers’ collective action in India and the US. I use urban and virtual ethnography, participant observation and interviews for this study.

I have also collaborated with Professor Manisha Desai and Professor Bandana Purkayastha on several projects.

Read more about my research, publications, and teaching experiences here.

MAJOR ADVISOR:

Manisha Desai

COMMITTEE:

Mary Bernstein, Andrew Deener, David Embrick, Bandana Purkayastha

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Contact Information
Emailrianka.roy@uconn.edu
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