Renugan Raidoo is an urban anthropologist whose current work concerns lifestyle estates in the Gauteng city region, their political economic origins, and their social and spatial consequences. Previous research has focused on secrecy and homophobia in urban Sierra Leone, and on sexuality and science policy in sub-Saharan Africa. His dissertation research was funded by awards from various sources at Harvard University, an Emslie Horniman Scholarship from the Royal Anthropological Institute/Sutasoma Award, and the Fulbright-Hays program. He holds an MPhil in social anthropology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, as well as a BA in anthropology and a BS (with honors) in chemistry from the University of Iowa. His anthropological academic work has appeared in the edited volume Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City (Wits University Press, 2020), and in journals such as Africa: Journal of the International African Institute and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

2023-24 Courses
Social Studies 10a: Introduction to Social Studies (Fall)
Social Studies 10b: Introduction to Social Studies (Spring)
Social Studies 98wi: Urbanism from the Global South (Spring)