Doctoral Candidate in Asian Languages and Cultures
About
Randeep is pursuing a joint degree in Asian Languages & Cultures, and in Anthropology.
Randeep’s research examines the way that Sikhs use mass-media technologies to convene a globally dispersed diaspora to diverse and sometimes discrepant politics. Based on long-term situated fieldwork in England, the United States, and Punjab, Randeep works with transnational networks of Sikh activists whose cultural production is vested in post-colonial contestation in the homeland, the vicissitudes of multiculturalism and liberal identity-work in the diaspora, and creative attempts to voice their tradition in new cultural forms and languages. In doing so, this interdisciplinary investigation of diasporic subjectivity is an attempt to think together the ways that diasporic subjectivity is figured by and also exceeds its racialization, religion-making, and histories of violence.
Randeep’s research has been funded by the The Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), the Social Sciences Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the American Institute for Indian Studies.
Research interests include: diaspora, media, race, religion, semiotics, critical theory and philosophy
Languages (other than English):
- Punjabi, Hindi, Persian, French, Arabic, Sanskrit
