Welcome! prabhdeep is a writer, sociologist, 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 colonial ideas about race are used in the cultural processes of defining merit (what counts as good) 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 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. For 2020-2022, prabhdeep is a Graduate Fellow in Community Engaged Scholarship at the Swearer Center. For any inquires, feel free to reach out via email (prabhdeep_kehal@brown.edu).

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.