About
Research interests: convenience (stores); labor; corporations; diaspora and belonging; service; political economy; United States; Japan
Harsimranjit (Simran) Singh Kang is currently a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in sociocultural anthropology. His research focuses on understanding the makings and unmakings of "convenience" as a value, commodity, and experience. Using ethnographic methods, and his experience growing up in convenience stores where his parents worked, Simran studies the everyday life of convenience stores in the United States and Japan to identify the production of in/convenience and its related social entanglements. Additionally, he also studies issues of labor, service economy, corporate formation, diaspora, and belonging. Simran has a Masters in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, with concentrations in Global Studies and Economics. Alongside his doctoral studies and research, Simran actively continues to work with his parents and support the family business (convenience stores) in California.
