Dhiraj Murthy

Assistant Professor

Fall 2009

  • South Asian Popular Culture (ASIAN 233)
  • South Asian Popular Culture (ASIAN 233L1)
  • Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101A)
Phone (207) 721-5152
Title Assistant Professor
Department Sociology And Anthropology
Work Location 319 Adams Hall
E-Mail dmurthy@bowdoin.edu
Dhiraj Murthy: Bowdoin College: Sociology

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Cambridge, 2008
MSc in Philosophy, London School of Economics, 2003
MSc in Sociology, University of Bristol, 2001
B.A. in Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 1997

Dhiraj Murthy came to Bowdoin from Brunel University in London where he taught graduate and undergraduate sociology and media studies.  He was a fellow at the Critical Theory Institute, University of California Irvine in 2007.

Research Areas

Transnational diasporas, new media technologies, critical ethnography, and critical theory.

Recent Publications

“Nationalism Remixed? The Politics of Cultural Flows between the South Asian Diaspora and 'Homeland'”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, forthcoming
 
“Emergent Digital Ethnographic Methods for Social Research” in S. N. Hesse-Biber (Ed.), Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Muslim punks online: a diasporic Pakistani music subculture on the Internet, South Asian Popular Culture, forthcoming, 2010.

“Digital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research”, Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 837-855. 2008.

“A South-Asian American diasporic aesthetic community? Ethnicity and New York City’s ‘Asian electronic music’ scene”, Ethnicities, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 225-247. 2007.

“Communicative flows between the diaspora and 'homeland': The case of Asian Electronic Music in Delhi”, Journal of Creative Communication, Vol. 2. Nos.1&2, pp. 143-161. 2007.

“Representing South Asian alterity? East London’s Asian electronic music scene and the articulation of globally mediated identities.”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 327-346. 2009.

Media Coverage

Campus News: In the Facebook Age on WCSH

The Forecaster: Bowdoin students' Facebook 'detox' brings clarity

Academic Spotlight: Sociology Students Face Off With Facebook

Links

Personal webpage: dhirajmurthy.com