Instructors

Pranathi Diwakar, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rank of Instructor

Pranathi Diwaker has just completed her term as a Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences at the University, where she earned her PhD in 2022, with a dissertation entitled “Resounding Caste: Practices of Distinction, Urban Segregation, and Musical Politics in Chennai, India”. That project investigates the contours of social inequality in contemporary, urban India and its diaspora through an ethnographic analysis of musical practices of meaning-making, distinction, and resistance to interrogate how they constitute and reproduce social inequality.  After she completes the revisions on her book manuscript, she plans to move on to a comparative study of anti-racist and anti-caste musical social movements in Chicago, New York, Mumbai, and Bangalore.