Vikas Singh

Vikas Singh is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. His research examines caste, religion, and globalization through phenomenological frameworks, with regional expertise in India. Awarded the Dean's Research Excellence prize (2019), he authored Uprising of the Fools (Stanford, 2017), analyzing pilgrimage as moral protest.

Research Focus:
Integrates:

• Ethnographic studies of religious movements
• Critical analyses of racial-meritocratic discourses
• Globalization's impact on social hierarchies

Teaching:
Courses include Classical Sociological Theory, Race and Ethnicity, and Qualitative Methods.