Core Department Faculty Member

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• Ali R. Chaudhary
• Assistant Professor
• Ph.D. University of California, Davis
• Email: ali.chaudhary@rutgers.edu
• Office: Davison Hall, 132B
• Website Link
• Curriculum Vitae

• Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dr. Chaudhary, conducts research on race, immigration, organizations, and music. His scholarship interrogates the significance of ascriptive categories in the social organization of modern life for immigrants and ethnoracial minorities.  Recent scholarship examines immigrants' civic engagement in the US and Western Europe as well the effects of stigma and geopolitical contexts on Pakistani immigrant-led nonprofit organizations in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Chaudhary's new research projects explore the intersection of race, migration, and the cultural production of popular music in the United States. The first of these projects investigate how symbolic boundaries are activated and reinforced through the production and consumption of musical instruments. A second project examines the uneven short-term consequences of the COVID19 pandemic on working musicians in the United States. 

  Visit my Google Scholar page for more information about my past scholarship: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QAlBXooAAAAJ&hl=en

• In the Public Eye:
  • Research on immigrant voting in Europe featured by the International Migration Institute at Oxford University.
  • Interviewed about New Jersey Supper Clubs as a strategy to reduce inter-group tensions between natives and immigrants in the Asbury Park Press and USA Today Network.
• Faculty Article(s): Ascriptive Organizational Stigma and the Constraining of Pakistani Immigrant Organizations
  Immigrant Organizations
  Paint it White: Segregationist Logics in Advertising and the Electric Guitar
  Voting ‘Here’ and ‘There”: Political Integration and Transnational Political Engagement among Immigrants in Europe
• Program Areas:
• Culture and Cognition
• Global Structures
• Organizations, Networks, and Work
• Politics and Social Movements
• Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration