The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Anmol Chaddha

Graduate Student in Sociology and Social Policy

Biographical Note

Anmol has worked at several policy institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, doing research to support grassroots organizing and policy development around issues of racial and economic justice. In his policy career, he worked to establish living wage laws, increase local minimum wage levels, expand workers' access to health care, and improve the quality of jobs in low-wage industries. Anmol has also examined the impact of post-9/11 national security policies on immigrant communities, and he has conducted research on the structure of informal work in New York City.

His academic interests include low-wage work, immigrant workers, and the politics of race and economic development in American cities. Anmol earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002.

02/01/2009
Research Interests
urban political economy, racial economic inequality, urban labor markets, urban economic development
Previous Degrees
BA Economics; University of California, Berkeley; 2002
Teaching Experience
Social Analysis 72 Economics: A Critical Approach Teaching Fellow

Presentations and Publications

Reconsidering the 'Ghetto' (co-authored with William Julius Wilson) City & Community 7(4): 384-388 2008

 

 

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