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Ujju Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Experiential Learning in the Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students (BPATS) at The New School, and serves as Coordinator of BPATS’ Self-Directed Learning Program. She holds affiliate faculty appointments in Global Studies and the Department of Anthropology.
Her research critically examines public infrastructures, urban space, racial capitalism, rights frameworks, gender dynamics, and state power. Her forthcoming book Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) interrogates educational justice through these lenses, while her current Spencer Foundation-supported project Education Against Enclosure extends this analysis into transformative pedagogical practices. Her interdisciplinary work bridges anthropology, critical geography, and public policy with deep commitments to social justice movements.
Aggarwal mentors National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation doctoral and postdoctoral fellows and has received research funding from the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, Center for Place Culture and Politics (CUNY), and Davis Putter Fund. Her community-engaged scholarship manifests through sustained organizational work rather than traditional laboratory structures.
She maintains active leadership in social justice initiatives as Board Member of Teachers Unite, Advisory Board Member for the Parent Leadership Project and PARCEO (Participatory Action-Research Center for Education, Organizing), connecting academic work with grassroots movement building in educational justice, immigrant rights, and abolitionist frameworks.
