Anupriya Pandey
Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Theory, Ethnography
Education:
B. Tech Electrical and Electronics, 2012, Rajasthan Tech University, India
MA Education, 2017, Azim Premji University, India
MA Sociology, 2020, SUNY University at Buffalo
Recent Courses Taught:
Environment and Society
Classical Sociological Theory
Sociology of Popular Culture
Bio:
Anupriya Pandey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research engages environmental sociology, critical social theory, and comparative racial and ethnic studies, with a specific focus on caste, labor, and agrarian political ecologies in South Asia. Anchored in long-term ethnographic fieldwork and historical-archival research in Bihar, India, her dissertation develops the framework of Critical Caste Ecologies to examine how caste hierarchies are materially and institutionally reproduced through everyday infrastructures such as agrochemical shops and solar irrigation systems. She investigates how caste-based claims to land, labor, expertise, and legitimacy are reconfigured amid the expansion of chemically intensive farming and climate resilience interventions. More broadly, she is interested in how agrarian livelihoods, ecological degradation, and caste intersect to shape socio-environmental hierarchies and produce differentiated vulnerabilities.
Recent Publications:
Pandey, Anupriya. Forthcoming. “Toward a Critical Caste Ecology: How Does Agrochemical Harm Interact with Caste Relations in Rural India.” Social Problems.
Besek, Jordan Fox, and Anupriya Pandey. 2022. “Streaming Verstehen: Whither Feature Film in the Classroom?” Teaching Sociology. 51(2), 170-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X221123337
Email: apandey8@buffalo.edu