Stanley Thangaraj

IRB Committee Member He/Him

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies, City College of New York (CUNY)

Stanley Thangaraj’s interests are at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. He studies immigrant and refugee communities in the U.S. South, where his focus is on understanding horizontal processes of race-making and how communities manage the black-white racial logic through gender. His newest research examines how Kurdish American communities embody, negotiate, challenge, and manage U.S. Empire. as well as how Muslim Kurdish women assert agency and form identities while challenging Islamic patriarchy and mainstream U.S. racializations of them. A second project explores the spatialization of race, class, and sexuality in the construction of the Civil Rights narrative at the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.