Raj Andrew Ghoshal

Education

2010                Ph.D., Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 

                        Dissertation: "Remembering Racial Violence: Memory Movements and the                                 Resurgence of Traumatic Pasts." 

2005                M.A., Sociology, University of Florida

                        Thesis: "What's in a Name? Framing, Persuasion, and Attitudes Toward                                     Same-Sex Marriage."

2001                B.A., Political Science, New College

Academic and Related Employment

2011-        Assistant Professor of Sociology, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD

2010-11    Assistant Professor of Sociology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC                    
                    Affiliate member of the graduate faculty, 2011

2006-08    Assistant Evaluation Consultant, The Mertz-Gilmore Foundation

2005-10    Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant, UNC-Chapel Hill
                    Department of Sociology; Department of Women's Studies

Teaching

At Goucher College:

The Sociological Imagination (2011, 2012); Comparative Race and Ethnic Relations (2011); Wealth, Power, & Prestige (2012); Research/Writing Colloquium (2012); The Search for Community (2012).  Planned for Fall 2012: Sociology of Education; Collective Memory.

At Appalachian State University: 

Criminology (2010 & 2011, 4 sections total); Race and Minority Relations (2011 - graduate seminar); Social Stratification (2010).

At UNC-Chapel Hill:

Full Instructor: Social Stratification (2008); Race and Ethnicity (2008); Race, Class, & Gender (2008); Sociological Perspectives (2007). 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 (2009-2010, 4 sections). Section 603: Recommended for a teaching award by 19 of 27 students. Section 605: Recommended for a teaching award by 17 of 26 students. 

Teaching Assistant: Family and Society (2005), Human Societies (2006), Research Methods (2006), Sociological Perspectives (2009).

Other Teaching:

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

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Goucher College Crosby Course Development Grant, 2012

Goucher College Summer Sustainability Institute, 2012

Goucher College "New Deal" Small Grant for Research Assistance, 2012

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2010, $6,435

Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2010

Honorable Mention, ASA Minority Fellowship, 2010

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

Academic Publications

Ghoshal, Raj Andrew, Cameron Lippard, Vanesa Ribas, and Ken Muir. 2012. "Beyond Bigotry: Teaching About Unconscious Prejudice." Teaching Sociology. Forthcoming October (issue 4).

Ghoshal, Raj Andrew. 2012. "Surf's Up? The Couchsurfing Project and the Spread of Online Hospitality Networks." Contexts. Forthcoming May (issue 2).

Caren, Neal, Raj Andrew Ghoshal, and Vanesa Ribas. 2011. "A Social Movement Generation: Trends in Protesting and Petition Signing, 1973-2006." American Sociological Review 76(1): 125-151.

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

Ghoshal, Raj Andrew. "Transforming Collective Memory: Mnemonic Opportunity Structures and the Outcomes of Racial Violence Memory Movements." R&R.

Ribas, Vanesa, and Raj Andrew Ghoshal. "States Make Movements? The Material and Discursive Influence of State-Sponsored Community Organizing in Puerto Rico." R&R.

Other Publications

Ghoshal, Raj Andrew. 2010. "A Deal that Only the Rich Could Love." Op-ed piece in the Asheville Citizen-Times, December 17.

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.

Works in Progress 

Ghoshal, Raj Andrew. "The Emergence of Racial Violence Memory Movements."

Ghoshal, Raj Andrew. "What Does Remembering Racial Violence Do?  Evidence from Greensboro and Wilmington's Commemorative Projects." 

Ghoshal, Raj Andrew.  "Memory Movements: Understanding their Origins, Forms, and Trajectories."

Ghoshal, Raj Andrew, and S. Michael Gaddis. "Roommate Discrimination."

Ghoshal, Raj Andrew. "Were Newspaper Opinion Editors Biased in the 2012 Presidential Election? An Experimental Approach."

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

Invited presentations

2011    "Are We Post-Racial?/Developing an Anti-Racist Practice." Boone (NC) Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, May 15. With Julia Dawson.

2011    "Are We Post-Racial in the Age of Obama?" Multicultural Student Development Lunch & Learn series, Appalachian State University. March 30.

2011    "Strange Fruit: Memory Movements Around Past Racial Violence." Goucher College, March 21.

2011    "Beyond Bigotry: Understanding Unconscious Prejudice." Guest lecture for Anthropology: Three Big Ideas, Prof. Susan Frekko, Goucher College, March 21.

2010    "The Rise of Mass Incarceration in the United States." Guest lecture for Punishment in American Society, Prof. Trina Seitz, Appalachian State University, November 17.

2010    "Horatio Alger, 'Postfeminism,' and the 'Post-Racial Era': Teaching Sociology in the 21st Century."  Sociology Department, UNC-Chapel Hill; Sociology Department, Appalachian State University.

Conference presentations

2012    "Beyond Bigotry: Teaching About Unconscious Prejudice." Parts of this project will be presented at the Eastern Sociological Society (New York, NY), Southern Sociological Society (New Orleans, LA), and American Sociological Association (Denver, CO) meetings.

2012    "Efforts to Mark Past Racial Violence." Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation  Conference (Newnan, GA).

2009-10    "The Origins and Trajectories of Racial Violence Memory Movements." Parts of this project were presented at the Center for the Study of the American South's Southern Research Circle (2009: Chapel Hill, NC) and the Southern Sociological Society (2010: Atlanta, GA) meetings.

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 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

Faculty co-sponsor, Sociology/Anthropology Club, Goucher College, 2011-

Independent Study Sponsor: Documenting Homelessness, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Goucher College, Spring 2012.

Founder and co-organizer, Sociology Department Research Workshop (monthly), Appalachian State University, 2010-11.

Co-organizer, "A Former Sex Worker and Sex Trafficking Victim Tells Her Story," public talk at Appalachian State University, April 26, 2011.

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.