Public Interest Anthropology at Penn

Gautam Ghosh's research may be characterized as an ethnographic engagement with politics and political theory. His PIA-related research focuses on the interrelationships between population migration, polity formation, and media as these pertain, in particular, to questions of citizenship, multiculturalism and heritage. He offers a course entitled "Migration and Multiculturalism" which examines these issues both in the U.S. and abroad. The course is linked with Penn's Academically Based Community Service Program (see Center for Community Partnerships). He is particularly interested in doing research among South Asian communities in Pennsylvania & New Jersey and on the "Organic Public Intellectual."

He also works with several organizations such as Project Impact which seeks to increase the awareness and involvement of, in particular, young South-Asian Americans through activism, education and service; the Committee on Human Rights and the Committee on Refugees and Immigration -- both subcommittees of the American Anthropological Association -- and is a member of India Alert, Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union and the South Asian Journalists Association. Gautam has worked for the World Without War Council on human rights and NGO issues.

He has been featured on National Geographic Television and quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Baltimore Sun, the San Jose Mercury News, the Christian Science Monitor and National Geographic On-Line.

Go to Gautam Ghosh's home page

Recommended Links:

Anthropological Quarterly

Peace and Democracy in South Asia

South Asia Citizen's Web

Progressive South Asian Organizations, Publications and Films

SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet

Manas: India and it's neighbors

South Asian Journalists Association

Friends of the River Narmada

Project Impact

South Asia Newspaper and Magazine Links:

Economic and Political Weekly