Faculty Fellows

CURB FACULTY FELLOWS

JYOTI GUPTA, PhD
Curb Research Fellow
Assistant Professor of the Practice

jyoti.gupta@vanderbilt.edu

Jyoti Gupta (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with interests that intersect urban and community studies, community power and collective action, agency and subjectivity. She examines participatory processes and the opportunities they afford or foreclose for individuals to become public people and collectives to shape the conditions that affect their lives. Her most recent projects examine community organizing practices, the development of grassroots leaders, and community power as a vehicle for transforming inequities.

Since 2016, she has been exploring municipal arts and cultural initiatives to center racial and cultural equity, as well as analyzing Nashville’s broader public and private efforts to integrate arts and culture into urban development strategies. Jyoti earned her PhD in Community Research and Action from Vanderbilt University, an MPH concentrating in Urbanism and the Built Environment from Columbia University, and a BA in Sociology & Anthropology and Theater from Swarthmore College.