Kavita Kulkarni
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- BA in Sociology, Emory University
- MA in Individualized Studies (Communication, Design, and Social Movements), New York University
- PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
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Dr. Kavita Kulkarni is an interdisciplinary researcher, lecturer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Her research and teaching asks questions within the fields of social, cultural, and media theory; the politics of raciality and knowledge production; and the political economy of urban space. She is deeply invested in bringing de-/anticolonial black feminist philosophy, sound studies, and performance studies to bear on these matters. Her first book project, Syncopated Utopia: On Race, Place, and House Music, is based on media ethnography, oral histories, and archival research of dance floors and racialized dispossession in the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn in the 1970s, 1990s, and early 2000s. Prior to pursuing her graduate studies, Dr. Kulkarni spent time as an organizer on economic and housing justice issues in Atlanta, Georgia and Brooklyn, New York.
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- "Reimag(in)ing Sociality: The Sunday Tea Party as an Ecology of Attunement," ASAP/Journal (Sep 2025) 10, no. 3.
- “‘Like a Cosmic, Invisible Umbilical Cord’: Soul Summit and the Haptic Arrangements of Black Social Life,” Journal of Popular Music Studies (Dec 2021) 33, no. 402, Special Issue on “Soundscapes of Gentrification,” eds. Christina Zanfagna and Alex Werth.
- “Mitchell-Lama Cooperative Housing and the Promise of Equity over Equality,” Housing the Co-Op: A Micro-political Manifesto, eds. Sascha Delz, Rainer Hehl, and Patricia Ventura
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- Race, Gender, and Digital Media
- Music + Digital Technology
- Media Ecology