Welcome! prabhdeep is a writer, sociologist, and educator. As a doctoral candidate at Brown University, prabhdeep researches how people understand contemporary and historic racism and how they use this knowledge to address inequalities in their shared social and cultural contexts, such as the workplace. They broadly question how knowledge institutions, such as US research universities, were formed in relation to segregation and colonialism, by exploring how knowledge workers in elite professions use ideas about racism and inclusion to define merit for hiring and promotion evaluations. Their work has been published in peer-reviewed academic outlets, such as Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sikh Research Journal, and Journal of Community Engagement in Higher Education, and for public commentary, in Kaur Life and Conditionally Accepted.

​prabhdeep's dissertation research – Racializing Meritocracy: Ideas of Excellence and Exclusion in Faculty Diversity – 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. Their additional research projects have been supported by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America's Humanities Lab and the American Sociological Association's Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline. For 2020-2022, prabhdeep is a Graduate Fellow in Community Engaged Scholarship at Brown University's Swearer Center. For any inquires, feel free to reach out via email (prabhdeep_kehal@brown.edu).

I share a land acknowledgment produced by Sherente Mishitashin Harris, Mack H. Scott III PhD (Narragansett Historian), Natives at Brown, and Decolonization at Brown as someone who works at Brown University on the ancestral Narragansett lands. In collaboration with Brown's Center for Students of Color, they have also produced a welcome video.

In 2021, prabhdeep will be presenting their work at

• the American Sociological Association annual conference in the ASA Thematic Session for DuBoisian Sexualities
• the Assessment Institute annual meeting at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
• the Association for the Study of Higher Education annual meeting as a Presidential Session
• the Social Science History Association annual meeting in the Of Proletariats and Professors: Race, Labor, and Mobility session
• the American Academy of Religion annual meeting in the Sikh Studies Unit

NB: ​​prabhdeep does not capitalize their name in English-printed media and their pronouns are they/them/theirs. It is not offensive to not capitalize their name for informal correspondences.