Core Department Faculty Member
- Ali R. Chaudhary
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D. University of California, Davis
- Email:
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- Personal Website
- Curriculum Vitae
- Google Scholar
Dr. Ali R. Chaudhary is a sociologist, musician, and associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick-New Jersey. His scholarship interrogates the significance of socially constructed categories as they mediate opportunities and constraints in contemporary social life. Dr. Chaudhary deploys diverse methodologies, data, and theoretical perspectives to understand how ascriptive social categories (e.g. race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc.), and their corresponding symbolic boundaries—are activated within and across immigrant/diaspora communities, immigrant organizations, and popular music.
Dr. Chaudhary is currently developing new research on the sociology of music and musicians. This research is comprised of two projects. The first is a comparative-historical project examining the legacy and logics of racial segregation in the production/consumption of musical instruments.
The second project examines the lasting consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on working musicians and music venues across New York City and New Jersey. Dr. Chaudhary is currently on leave and a visiting scholar with the Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is collecting new data for a book manuscript focusing on the lasting consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on musicians and music-making in the United States.
To view my recent and earlier academic publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.
- 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
- Ascriptive Organizational Stigma and the Constraining of Pakistani Immigrant Organizations
- Program Areas:
- Culture and Cognition
- Environment and Sustainability
- Global Structures
- Organizations, Networks, and Work
- Politics and Social Movements
- Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
