Linta Varghese

Faculty Fellow

Linta Varghese is an associate professor in the Department of Race and Ethnic Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and Faculty in the Public Scholarship Program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her current research investigates the universalization of care as a countermeasure to multiple crises, with attention to how this strategy is mobilized in the domestic workers movement in the United States. Her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Dynamics, Woman: A Cultural Review, and edited volumes including The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power. She has been a guest editor for special issues of WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly titled “Together” which took up the limitations and possibilities of coming together, and Ethnic Studies Review which revisited the implications of the racial prerequisite case U.S. v Thind (1923) on its centenary.

Participating Years

2025–2026

Mobility: Transit and Transformation

Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.