Natasha Kumar Warikoo

Assistant Professor of Education

Profile

Natasha Kumar Warikoo completed her doctorate in sociology at Harvard, after which she was lecturer (assistant professor) at University of London’s School of Advanced Study, in the Institute for the Study of the Americas. Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture at School in the Global City (University of California Press), analyzes how youth cultures among children of immigrants are related to their orientations toward schooling, through ethnographic, interview, and survey data in New York and London high schools. She is also working on a study of elite British and American college students and their understandings of and feelings about diversity and multiculturalism. Prior to completing her doctorate Warikoo was a teacher in New York City’s public schools, and worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education.

Degrees

• Ph.D., Harvard University