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Pranathi Diwakar is a Researcher and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, University of Chicago. She completed her PhD in 2022 with a dissertation titled “Resounding Caste: Practices of Distinction, Urban Segregation, and Musical Politics in Chennai, India,” examining social inequality in urban India through ethnographic analysis of musical practices. Her work bridges anthropology, sociology, and urban studies.
Education: PhD in Social Sciences (2022), University of Chicago; previously served as a Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences.
Research interests focus on caste dynamics, urban segregation, ethnomusicology, diaspora studies, and disaster studies. Her publications explore topics like caste’s spatialization, urban governance in China/India, disaster risk framing, and legacies of the Chicago School of Sociology.
Her articles highlight interdisciplinary approaches to urban marginalization, musical boundary-making, and policy implications of slum relocation. No scientific awards are explicitly listed. Advising and grants sections remain unspecified; her work emphasizes ethnographic fieldwork and critical disaster studies. No lab affiliations are documented.
