Shirin Purkayastha

Shirin Purkayastha is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Departments of Black Studies and Sociology. Her research examines the consequences of financialization for the popular music industry. She is currently researching how firm-level changes following the Telecommunications Act of 1996 shaped the discursive labor of hip-hop journalism.

As an ISPS Fellow, she will examine how platform economies organize the work and subjectivities of cultural workers. Prior to Yale, she worked as a policy researcher at UCSF and the Vera Institute of Justice.