Anmol Chaddha
Graduate Student in Sociology and Social Policy
Biographical Note
Anmol Chaddha studies the political economy of race and urban inequality. He is interested in how racial inequality is shaped by direct state action, urban policy, and the political sphere. His current research focuses on the urban politics of redistribution, particularly with regard to urban economic development.
He has conducted research on the impact of industrial transformation on racial earnings inequality in urban labor markets. He has also examined the structure of informal work in New York City and Chicago.
Anmol is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at Harvard. He has been a visiting scholar at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He has co-authored journal articles with William Julius Wilson on the conceptualization of the ‘ghetto’ in sociological research and on urban ethnography. He earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
09/28/2011
- Research Interests
- urban political economy, racial inequality, urban labor markets, urban economic development, political sociology
- Previous Degrees
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A.M. Sociology; Harvard University; 2010
B.A. Economics; University of California, Berkeley; 2002
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| Social Analysis 72 | Economics: A Critical Approach | Teaching Fellow |
| African American Studies 211 | Social Structure and Culture in the Study of Race and Urban Poverty | Teaching Fellow |
Presentations and Publications
| Wilson, William Julius, and Anmol Chaddha. 2009. "The Role of Theory in Ethnography." Ethnography 10(4): 549-564. |
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| Chaddha, Anmol, and William Julius Wilson. 2008. "Reconsidering the 'Ghetto'." City & Community 7(4): 384-388. |
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Miscellaneous Additional Information
- Grants Received
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National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Harvard University
Contact
617-496-5794 (FAX)