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Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Ethnic violence in Gujarat

One of the great things about my job (and there are a lot to choose from) is the pleasure I get from seeing former students doing well and getting their research into print. My former masters student Raheel Dhattiwala recently got a  very nice paper (written with her doctoral supervisor Michael Biggs) into Politics and Society. If you can't get behind the pay-wall, there is an earlier working paper version here. Anyone who says that Oxford sociology is all about analyzing square tables couldn't be more wrong.
Posted by Colin at 03:15

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