Bhumika Chauhan

Assistant Professor

Member Of:
  • School of History and Sociology
Office Phone: (404) 894-1122
Office Location: Old Civil Engineering Building, 221 Bobby Dodd Way
Related Links:
Email Address: bchauhan30@gatech.edu

Overview

Personal Pronouns:
She/her

Bhumika Chauhan is a sociologist of labor with a special focus on automation, globalization, migration, and social movements. She was born and raised in India and received most of her academic training there before getting her PhD in Sociology from New York University. Her research before the Ph.D., which continues to shape her thinking about teaching, asked how anti-caste and feminist social justice movements in India influenced critical pedagogical practices in the classroom. She has been part of working-class struggles in Delhi’s industrial belt. She contributed to several workers’ newspapers and also made a documentary about the workers’ struggles in the automobile and garment industries of New Delhi.

Education:
  • Ph.D., Sociology, New York University, New York (2024)
  • M.Phil., Education Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2014)
  • M.A., Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2012)
  • B.A. (Hons.), Psychology, University of Delhi, New Delhi (2009)
Areas of
Expertise:
  • Globalization
  • Sociology Of Labor

Interests

Teaching Interests:
Sociology of Work and Industry: AI and Beyond; Globalization in the Modern Era: Global Labor
Research Interests:
labor, globalization, automation, social movements
Research Fields:
  • Communities, Places, and the Environment
  • Politics, Power, and Inequalities
  • Science, Technology, and Medicine
  • Social Justice and Social Change

Courses

  • HTS-3007: Soc of Work and Industry
  • HTS-3055: Globalization Modern Era

Publications

Updated:  Feb 13th, 2026 at 11:54 AM