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 and Peer Status among Children of Immigrants in New York and London (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 new study of elite British and American college students and their understandings of and feelings about diversity and multiculturalism. This project aims to understand how institutional supports for diversity like ethnic and racial studies departments and affirmative action shape student perspectives. Prior to completing her doctorate Natasha was a teacher in New York City’s public schools, and worked as a consultant to the US Department of Education. Her work has been published in scholarly journals as well as newspapers, and she has won grants and awards from the National Science Foundation, the American Sociological Association, Nuffield Foundation, and the British Academy.

Degrees

• Ph.D., Harvard University