Kartikeya Saboo

http://www.wichita.edu/anthropology

Assistant Professor| Wichita State University, Department of Anthropology

Primary Field	Cultural Anthropology
Position	Assistant Professor

http://www.wichita.edu/anthropology

Assistant Professor, Wichita State University, Department of Anthropology

E-mail	kartikeya.saboo@wichita.edu
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Interest/Specialty Areas

United States, Political and Psychological Anthropology, Racialization, Mass Incarceration, Conspiracy, Deviance, Witchcraft, Ethnography, Collaborative and Engaged Anthropology.

Dr. Kartikeya Saboo is a political and psychological anthropologist. His research focused on the Black Middle Class, 60’s activists, and gangs in Newark, New Jersey and an adjacent township in the wake of the financial crisis and Great Recession of 2007-09. His research examines the consumption, and symbolic and economic uses of the Black Body in the United States. His work brings together conspiratorial thinking, shamanism and theories of occult, and studies of honor and feuding in an analysis of racism and political fracture in the United States. He has prior experience in international development, adult education, and microfinance. Before starting on his present vocation, he was involved in one of the largest projects of financial inclusion in the world.

Phone	(316) 978-3195
Email	anthropology@wichita.edu

The 2023-2024 AnthroGuide is the last print version. Edits for graduate programs are due July 31, 2023.

Kartikeya Saboo