Education
Ph.D, Anthropology,
American University, 2012
B.A., Anthropology,
San Francisco State University, 2005
Dr Harjant S Gill
he/him
Professor & Concentration Coordinator (Anthropology)
Areas of Expertise
South Asia
Gender and Sexuality
Migration
Transnationality
Media Studies
Visual Anthropology
Ethnographic Film
Multimodality
Biography
Dr. Gill's research examines the intersections of masculinity, popular culture, political
violence, and transnational migration in India. He is also an award-winning filmmaker
and has made several ethnographic films that have screened at film festivals, academic
conferences and on television networks worldwide including BBC, Doordarshan (Indian
National TV) and PBS. His films include Mardistan (Macholand) which explores Indian manhood focusing on issues of sexual violence, toxic masculinity,
son preference and homophobia, Roots of Love which looks at the changing significance of hair and turban among Sikhs in India,
and Sent Away Boys which looks at how provincial communities in Punjab are transformed by the exodus of young men giving
up farming to seek a better future abroad. His forthcoming book is titled Coming of Age in Macholand: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Transnationality in Post-Conflict Punjab. Gill is the recipient of the Point Foundation Scholarship, Fulbright-Nehru Research
Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies Performing Arts Fellowship, the Institute
for Citizens & Scholars' Career Enhancement Fellowship and the Whiting Foundation
Public Engagement Fellowship. Dr. Gill is the current president of .
Scholarship
Films
- (2016, 45 min. Punjabi)
- (2014, 28 min. Punjabi, Hindi & English)
- (2011, 26 min. Punjabi & English)
- (2008, 9 min. Turkish)
- (2007, 26 min. English)
- (2003, 20 min. English)
Articles & Book Chapters
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Essays
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- 2016 鈥淥rlando: Observances,鈥� Feminist Studies 42 (2): 530-531
Fellowships & Grants
2024 Antipode Foundation Film Grant
2024 快活视频Faculty Development & Research Fellowship
2021 Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship
2019 Fulbright Nehru Award Academic and Professional Award
2019 American Institute of Indian Studies Research Fellowship
2019 快活视频Faculty Development and Research Fellowship
2017 MDOCS Storytellers鈥� Institute Fellowship, Skidmore College, Summer
2015 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty
2015 Fejos Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The Wenner-Gren Foundation
2015 National Film Commission Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
2013 National Film Commission Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
2010 National Film Commission Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
2006 鈥� 2011 Point Foundation National LGBT Scholarship
2009 JB MRC Junior Research Fellowship, Jamia Millia Islamia University
Languages
Hindi & Punjabi (native)