Raj Ghoshal

Assistant Professor

Van Meter 133
410-337-6594
raj.ghoshal@goucher.edu
http://www.rajghoshal.com

Education

Ph.D. (Sociology), UNC-Chapel Hill

Areas of Scholarly Expertise and Interest

Inequality, Race, Social Movements, Collective Memory, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology

Recent Publications/Presentations/Performances

Ghoshal, Raj, Cameron Lippard, Vanesa Ribas, and Ken Muir. 2013. "Beyond Bigotry: Teaching
About Unconscious Prejudice." Teaching Sociology. Forthcoming April (issue 2).

Ghoshal, Raj. 2012. "Surf's Up? The Couchsurfing Project and the Spread of Online Hospitality
Networks." Contexts 11(2): 66-68.

Caren, Neal, Raj Andrew Ghoshal, and Vanesa Ribas. "A Social Movement Generation: Trends in Protesting and Petition Signing, 1973-2006." American Sociological Review 76(1): 125-151, 2011.

Ghoshal, Raj.  "Argument Forms, Frames, and Value Conflict: Persuasion in the Case of Same-Sex Marriage."  Cultural Sociology 3(1): 77-102, 2009.

Funded Research

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2010.

Center for the Study of the American South Research Grant, 2009.