Avinash Hingorani
Assistant Professor of History | African-American Studies
Office: McClurg 110
Email: avinash.hingorani@newberry.edu
Department: Department of Humanities
Degrees:
Ph.D. | University of Edinburgh (2022)
M.A. | University of Amsterdam (2016)
B.A. | Tulane University (2014)
Bio:
Dr. Avinash Hingorani joined Newberry College in 2024 as an Assistant Professor of History and African-American Studies. He is an Indian American transnational historian. He began his academic studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he graduated with a B.A. in philosophy. After graduating from Tulane, he attended the University of Amsterdam and graduated with an M.A. in American studies.
After completing his studies in Amsterdam, he entered the Ph.D. program in history at the University of Edinburgh. His dissertation was titled, “A Clash of Color: A Dialogue on Race, Caste, and Class in the United States and India (1893-1954).” He is currently publishing a book in the Global South Asians series at Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Hingorani is actively engaged in building an academic career that disseminates the realities of the lived experiences of low-caste Indians and Black Americans. It is his ambition that his work should contribute to the social advancement of both racial minorities in the United States and low-caste Indians in India. His expertise is evaluating race, caste and class from an international and comparative perspective; investigating the underlying system of caste marginalization that manifests itself in many similar ways in both the United States and India; comparing the mass incarceration and criminalization of Black Americans in the United States to the criminalization of low-caste Indians in India; and global racial and social justice.
Some of his hobbies and interests include singing and playing guitar. He enjoys connecting the lyrics in music and their social justice messages to American history, believing those messages have an impact on the American people.
His INQ (Inquiry) 110 course, started in Spring 2025, analyzes themes of anti-racism, anti-war, environmentalism, mass incarceration, anti-colonialism, indigenous rights, gender equality, LGBTQ rights, refugee rights, and class solidarity within American music and popular culture.
