Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Kitchen intimacies: Afro-Asian worlds and anti-Blackness
Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan is an assistant professor of anthropology, core faculty in the culture media program, and affiliated faculty in the department of music at NYU. For the last decade he has utilized collaborative, multimodal, and speculative approaches to research how media consumption, production, and circulation shape understandings of migration, gender, race, and urban space in diasporic and postcolonial contexts. He is the author of two books, The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, masculinity, and urban space in Delhi, India (2020 Duke University Press) and Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the age of Social Media (2023 with Sahana Udupa, NYU Press).