Raj Ghoshal

Education

Ph.D., Sociology                   University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill        In progress                    

Comprehensive exams and coursework completed 2007; Dissertation proposal defended 2008. Dissertation: "Explaining the Development and Trajectories of Race Riot Memory Movements, 1877-1954." Committee: Kenneth (Andy) Andrews, Fitzhugh Brundage, Neal Caren, Larry Griffin, Charles Kurzman, Andrew Perrin.

M.A., Sociology                    University of Florida                                               2005

B.A., Political Science        New College                                                                2001

Teaching

Full Instructor:

Sociological Perspectives (2007)
Race, Class, & Gender (2008)
Race and Ethnicity (2008)
Social Stratification (2008)

Twice nominated for a teaching award by more than half of my students (Sociological Perspectives: 9 of 11; Social Stratification: 13 of 22)

Recitation Leader: 

Introduction to Women's Studies (2009, 2 sections)

Teaching Assistant:

Family and Society (2005)
Human Societies (2006)
Research Methods (2006)
Sociological Perspectives (2009)

GMAT instructor (2004-05); Soros Foundation debate instructor (1998)

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Everett K. Wilson Teaching Award for most outstanding UNC Sociology Department graduate instructor, 2009, $500

Center for the Study of the American South Summer Research Grant, 2009, $1,500

Interdisciplinary Research Scholars Fellowship, UNC, 2008, $7,500 (declined)

Distinction, Social Movements comprehensive exam, UNC, 2006

Graduate Assistantship, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2005-present

Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida, 2003-2005

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards Under Review

[Under review] National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2010, $5,000.  Submitted October 2009.

Academic Publications

Ghoshal, Raj.  2009. "Argument Forms, Frames, and Value Conflict: Persuasion in the Case of Same-Sex Marriage."  Cultural Sociology 3(1): 77-102.

Ghoshal, Raj. 2009. "Crossing Borders: States, Migration, and Transnational Civil Society."  Review of Srilatha Batliwala and David Brown (eds.), Transnational Civil Society, and Ruud Koopmans et. al., Contested Citizenship. Societies without Borders 4(1):96-98.

Revise and Resubmit

Caren, Neal, Raj Ghoshal, and Vanesa Ribas. "A Social Movement Generation: Trends in Protesting and Petition Signing, 1973-2006." Second revise & resubmit at American Sociological Review.

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

Ghoshal, Raj. 2009. "Despite Racial Leap, Disparities Linger." Op-ed piece in the Raleigh News & Observer, January 6.

Perrin, Andrew. and Raj Ghoshal.  2008. "Human Rights and North Carolina's International Worker Justice Campaign."  Report to the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.

Ghoshal, Raj. 2007. "Collective Bargaining: A Human Rights Issue?" InTouch: UNC Employee Forum News, Fall, pp. 2-3.

Papers in Progress and Other Research

Kurzman, Charles, Raj Ghoshal, Kristin Gibson, Clinton Key, Andrew Payton, Micah Roos, and Amber Wells. "Powerblindness." Under review.

Ghoshal, Raj. "What does remembering racial violence do?  Evidence from Greensboro and Wilmington's Commemorative Projects." In progress.

Ghoshal, Raj. "Resurrecting Racial Violence: Collective Memory, Social Movements, and the Return of Traumatic Pasts." In progress.

Research consultant, the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and research assistant to Dr. Andrew Perrin, 2006-2008. 

Selected presentations

2009    "UNC at ASA: A Social Movement Generation."   Short colloquium presentation, UNC-Chapel Hill Sociology Department (Chapel Hill, NC).  (Second author, with Neal Caren and Vanesa Ribas.)

2009    "The Origins of Racial Violence Memory Movements." Southern Research Circle, Center for the Study of the American South (Chapel Hill, NC).

2009    "The Reception of Race Riot Memory Projects." Parts of this project were presented at the Southern Sociological Society (New Orleans, LA) and the American Sociological Association (San Francisco, CA) meetings.

2008    "What Does Commemorating Racial Violence Do?  Lessons from Greensboro and Wilmington's Commemorative Projects." Parts of this project were presented at the Southern Sociological Society (Richmond, VA) and the American Sociological Association (Boston, MA) meetings.

2007    "Memory Movements in the Public Forum: Greensboro's Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Parts of this project were presented at the American Sociological Association (New York, NY) and Pacific Sociological Association (Oakland, CA) meetings.

2006    "North Carolina's Campaign for Collective Bargaining." Society for the Study of Social Problems (Philadelphia, PA).  (Second author, with Andrew Perrin.)

2006    "The McDonaldization of Competitive Debate." Society for the Study of Social Problems (Philadelphia, PA).

2005-06     "What's in a Name?  Framing, Persuasion, and Attitudes toward Same Sex Marriage." Parts of this project were presented at the Southern Sociological Society (2005: Charlotte, NC), Pacific Sociological Association (2006: Hollywood Hills, CA), and American Sociological Association (2006: Montreal, Canada) meetings. 

2004    "Another World is Happening: Prefigurative Politics in Twin Oaks Community." Southern Sociological Society (Atlanta, GA). 

2002     "Alternative Work Organization." North American Students of Cooperation (Ann Arbor, MI). 

Professional and University Service

Co-president, UNC Sociology Graduate Students Association, 2007-08; Graduate student representative to faculty, University of Florida, 2004-05

Reviewer: Journal of Family Issues; Information, Communication, and Society; Mobilization; Social Forces; Southern Cultures

Co-organizer (with Scott Byrd and Jackie Smith) of Thematic Session "Is Another Political Culture Possible? Alternative Globalization Movements in Perspective."  Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, 2007.

UNC LGBT Safezone ally, 2006-present

Southeast Social Forum Hosting Committee member, Durham, NC, 2006

References

Available on request.