Research Activities
Current Projects
Principal Investigator:
1. Ambivalent Activists: How Indian Tech Workers Organize in India and the US
Currently developing a book manuscript
(IRB at Wake Forest University; previous IRB at the University of Connecticut)
2. Immigrant Academic Workers
Work in progress
Research assistant: Wyla Solsbery, Wake Forest University
Co-Principal Investigator:
Walking a Fine Line: Being a Hindu American Woman against the Grain of Hindu Nationalism
Co-PI, with Bandana Purkayastha and Anjana Narayan (2023-2025)
Funding agency: Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (amount: $7,000)
Deliverables: Podcast series and publications.
Additional Research Experience
Research Assistant; PI: Bandana Purkayastha (Summer 2021, Summer 2023, Fall 2023)
Produced content analysis of news reports on migrant workers’ precarity during COVID. Interviewed high-skilled migrant workers in the US.
Funding agency: Social Science Research Council
Output: Two publications and two conference presentations with the PI.
Research Assistant; PI: Manisha Desai (Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2022)
Prepared literature review on gender, transnational feminism, colonial and postcolonial feminists in India, history of Dalit feminist activism in the nineteenth century.
Output: Two publications and one conference presentation with the PI.
*Research activities listed here are from 2019, when I joined the graduate program in Sociology at the University of Connecticut. To learn about my prior work, please email me at rianka.roy@gmail.com.