Ujju Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Experiential Learning in the Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students, and an affiliate faculty member in Global Studies and the Department of Anthropology. She also serves as Coordinator of BPATS’ Self-Directed Learning Program.
Aggarwal’s research examines questions related to public infrastructures, urban space, racial capitalism, rights, gender, and the state. Her first book, Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education is forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press, 2024. Aggarwal’s next project, Education Against Enclosure, is supported by the Spencer Foundation. Her work has appeared in popular outlets, scholarly journals, and edited volumes including Transforming Anthropology; Scholar & Feminist Online; Educational Policy, and Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change (edited by Leela Fernandes). She is co-editor (with Edwin Mayorga and Bree Picower), of What’s race got to do with it? How current school reform policy maintains racial and economic inequality 2nd Edition (Peter Lang, 2020); and co-editor (with Linta Varghese and Rupal Oza) of Women’s Studies Quarterly Fall/Winter 2019.