Pritha Gopalan

Pritha Gopalan is an educational anthropologist engaged in research on public education reform. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research on social and educational issues in India and the United States over the last 20 years. She currently teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and previously worked at the Institute for Financial and Managerial Research, Chennai, and at the Academy for Educational Development, New York. Dr. Gopalan received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania