Rohit Jain holds a PhD in social anthropology focusing on migration, postcolonialism, memory politics, and transnational public culture.
He studied sociology, social anthropology and economics in Bern and defended his dissertation in social anthropology at the University of Zurich in 2014. The ethnography was published in 2018 under the title „Kosmopolitische Pioniere. Transnationale Subjektivierungsprozess bei ‚InderInnen der zweiten Generation“ zwischen Assimilation, Exotik und globaler Moderne“.
Rohit Jain has also published on racism and humor, racial profiling, the Swiss gold trade, urban citizenship and politics of memory. In his research and interventions, he works with communities and experts from various disciplines to generate new knowledge and negotiate it publicly. To this end, he combines ethnographic, performative and community-based approaches and develops new transdisciplinary methodologies in the field of public anthropology.
He is currently a lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern and an associate at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich. Previously, Rohit worked at the nccr - on the move of the University of Neuchâtel, the Institute New Switzerland INES and the Federal Migration Commission.
