Ujju Aggarwal

Ujju Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Experiential Learning at The New School. Her research engages public education, urban space, rights, and the state in relation to gendered political subjectivities, kinship, racial capitalism, social reproduction, and anti-carceral studies. Her first book, Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education, a historically informed ethnography of choice as it emerged in the post-Civil Rights period in the United States, was published by the University of Minnesota Press. Her current project, Education Against Enclosure, is supported by the Spencer Foundation. Ujju also brings along history working to build organizing for educational justice, immigrants’ rights, and abolition as well as projects at the intersection of arts and social justice, popular education, and adult literacy. She serves on the Board of Teachers Unite, on the Advisory Boards of the Parent Leadership Project (Bloomingdale Family Head Start Center, PLP), PARCEO (Participatory Action-Research Center for Education, Organizing), and the The Public Scholarship Practice Space (CUNY Graduate Center).