Bollywood and Beyond: Visual Appeal in Costumes in Indian Films

In 2010, Deepsikha Chatterjee (Hunter College/CUNY) and Cheri Vasek (University of Hawai’i, Manoa) received a grant from United States Institute of Theatre Technology to travel to India and study the process of Indian film production with focus on the work of costume designers. With the most number of films produced per annum in India, partly … Read more

Intergenerational Transmission of Religion and Ethnicity: Indian Hindus and Korean Protestants

This is a book project that compares Indian Hindus and Korean Protestants in their intergenerational transmission of religion and ethnicity through religion. It is based on several data sources: (1) ethnographic research on a Hindu temple and a Korean Protestant church in Queens, New York City, (2) personal interviews with Indian Hindu and Korean Protestant … Read more

A Comparison on Chinese, Indian, and Korean Immigrants in New York in Ethnic Attachment and Solidarity

Based on a book currently being written for Columbia University on ethnic attachment, this talk will explain the solidarity among Chinese, Indian and Korean immigrants in New York City. Sociologists often lump together ethnic attachment and ethnic solidarity into the same category. Though distinctively interrelated, both are significantly different from one another in their explanations … Read more