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Kavitha Ramsamy serves as Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. Her scholarly work centers on globalization, transnationalism, migration, and identity dynamics within African and South Asian diasporas.
As a cultural, urban, and political geographer, she critically examines race, citizenship, and cosmopolitanism through comparative national lenses. Her research interrogates racial binaries and social movements at the intersection of Black Atlantic Studies and Indian Ocean Studies, challenging dominant frameworks in diaspora scholarship.
Dr. Ramsamy teaches diverse courses including interlacing histories of African and Asian peoples in the United States; South Asian-African relations in comparative contexts; racial inequality and economic development; cultural pluralism and democracy; Black migration and urbanization; and Africana Studies research methodologies.
She is currently finalizing her book "South Asians and the Problem of the Color Line: Migration, Race, and Identity in South Africa and the United States", expanding critical discourse on transnational racial formations.
