Gaurav Pathania

Assistant Professor of Sociology & Peacebuilding

School of Social Sciences and Professions
Sociology

LocationRoselawn Academic 225

PhoneN/A

E-Mailgaurav.pathania@emu.edu

Education

PHD, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Sociology)
MPHIL, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Sociology)
MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Sociology)

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Biography

Gaurav J. Pathania is a sociologist of higher education and currently teaches at Eastern Mennonite University at Harrisonburg in Virginia. He has previously taught at Georgetown University, Catholic University of America and George Washington University in Washington, DC. Gaurav also served as a visiting scholar to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and at University of Southern California. His ethnographic research in cultural sociology addresses issues of caste, class and racial discrimination among diaspora and focuses on contemporary identity movements among university students in the U.S. Gaurav has recently authored his first book, The University as a Site of Resistance: Identity and Student Politics (Oxford University Press). He is the deputy editor of "South Asia Research" Journal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Gaurav is an anti-caste writer, poet and activist, and currently working on his memoir. Gaurav won the national poetry award for 2016 organized by the Poetry Society of India. His anti-caste poetry appears in J-Caste journal published by Brandeis University.

Mission Statement

Education should connect with the grassroots and offer a vision for social change.

Publications

	Citation	Pub. Date	Month	Day
1822	Pathania, Gaurav J. 2020. Cultural Politics of Historically Marginalized Students in Indian Universities, Critical Times, 3(3): 534-550. Duke Universtiy Press.	2020	12	1
1823	Pathania, Gaurav J. and Tierney, William G. 2018. An Ethnography of Caste and Class at an Indian University: Creating Capital, Tertiary Education and Management, 24 (3): 221-231.	2018	2	20
1824	Pathania, Gaurav J. 2018. The University as a Site of Resistance: Identity and Student Politics, Oxford University Press. [BOOK]	2018	10	4
1825	Pathania, Gaurav J. 2016. Food Politics and Counter-Hegemonic Assertion in Indian University Campuses, South Asia Research, 36(2): 261-77	2016	7	12
1830	Thakur, N. & Pathania, Gaurav J. 2019. Privatization and Shrinking Free Space in Indian Higher Education, In Suresh Babu GS (ed.) Education and the Public Sphere, Routledge: UK	2019
1836	https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9IYrMmcAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1	2021
1875	Pathania, Gaurav J. 2021. “Regional Movements in Democracy: The Case of Telangana” in in P. D’Souza, H. Ahmed and S. Alam (eds.) Companion on Indian Democracy: Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence, Routledge, UK.	2021
1876	Pathania, Gaurav J. and Kalyani. 2024. “Contextualizing the Emergence of Dalit Studies in Academia,” in Jaoa Paraskeva (ed.) On Caste: Towards a Non-Derivative Curriculum Reason, Routledge: NY. [forthcoming]	2024
1877	Pathania, Gaurav J. and Nina Asher. 2023. “Racialization of Caste: Internal Colonization of Education in South Asia”, In J. Scott, M. Bajaj (eds.) The Yearbook of Education 2023: Racialization and Educational Inequalities in Global Perspective, Routledge: USA	2023
1897	Pathania, Gaurav, Sushrut Jadhav, Amit Thorat, David Mosse, and Sumeet Jain. 2023. “Caste Identities and Structures of Threats: Stigma, Prejudice and Social Representation in Indian Universities”. CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion 4 (1), 03-23.	2023

Professional Memberships

Comparative International Educational Society (CIES) - Annual

American Sociological Association (Annual)

DC Sociological Society (Annual)

Comparative Education Society of India (Life Member)

Courses Taught

Introduction to Sociology

Global Social Movements

Globalization and Justice

Theories of Social Change

Sociology of Health

Transformational Leadership for Social Change

Sociology of Caste and Class

Nonviolent Mobilizing Action

Community Organizing Social Action

Attached CV

https://appsrv.emu.edu/personnel/personnel/cv/gjp2223/CV_2023-05-19.pdf

Updated 5/19/2023