Overview
Kartikeya Saboo is an ethnographer of the United States. Currently, he is studying political persuasion, populism, and post-industrial prospects of economic growth, community health, and justice in a semi-rural community of Kansas. He is also building a field school of applied anthropology.
His first project examined the impact of the financial crisis and Great Recession in Northeastern U.S., where he investigated the political, economic, and symbolic uses of the Black body.
Before becoming an anthropologist, he was involved in large scale innovations in financial exclusion for the poor in India, which led to national policy change and have been replicated in other parts of the world. Those interested may read about these in an upcoming edited volume from Yale University Press (2023).
Information
Ethnography, United States, populism, Midwest, conspiracy, post-industrialism, methodology and epistemology, racialization, mass incarceration, engaged anthropology.
Ph.D. in Anthropology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
M.A. in Anthropology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
M.A. in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai – India,
B.A. in Sociology (Honors) from Hindu College, the University of Delhi, Delhi - India