Prash Naidu joined CUNY-CCNY in 2023 as Assistant Professor in Anthropology. Previously (2019-2023) Naidu was Assistant Professor of International Studies at Arcadia University in Philadelphia, where he was the Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker Fellow in Democracy and Freedom Studies.
Naidu is an environmental and medical anthropologist with a research agenda on environmental health disparities and environmental justice in Southeast Asia and North America. He studies landscape transformations and atmospheric pollution and traces the impacts of extractive capitalism on people and ecosystems.
Naidu’s current research is on the health and socio-environmental impacts of sand mining in Southeast Asia and a community-based study of how air pollution impacts environmental racism on communities of color in Philadelphia. He is currently planning a East Harlem, NYC component of this project.
Education
- PhD (2019). Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- A.M. (2011). Social Sciences and Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
