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Welcome! prabhdeep is a writer, community scholar, and educator. As a sociologist and doctoral candidate at Brown University, prabhdeep researches how people and communities make knowledge about race and racism, and how they use this knowledge in their lives. They broadly question how colonialism persists within US higher education and, specifically, how these ideas about race are used in the processes of hiring, promotion, and defining merit (what counts as good) in education and academia. prabhdeep's community work focuses on identifying and fighting how ideologies of white supremacy, anti-queerness, and gender conformity emerge in our lives, both within and outside the Sikh and Sikh-American diaspora. They dream of presents and futures filled with community libraries. For 2017-2019 and 2020-2021, prabhdeep is a Graduate Fellow in Community Engaged Scholarship at Brown University's Swearer Center.
prabhdeep's projects consider how merit has been historically constructed within higher education by exploring the cultural and ideological relationships between slavery, colonialism, and higher education in the United States. With a specific focus on the faculty role and how faculty evaluate prospective candidates for hiring and promotion in elite, academic spaces, their dissertation is an institutional ethnography at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Duke University, and University of North Carolina. prabhdeep's work has been recognized by the Eastern Sociological Society's Charles V. Willie Minority Graduate Student Award, and supported by The Institute for Transformative Practice at Brown University, a two-year fellowship at the Swearer Center, the Beatrice and Joseph Feinberg Memorial Fund, the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity at Brown University, and the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship. In 2020, prabhdeep will be presenting their work at
NB: prabhdeep does not capitalize their name in English-print and their pronouns are they/them/theirs. |
