Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice

Faculty Harjant Gill Visiting Instructor Curriculum Vitae Office:   Liberal Arts, Room 3344 Phone:   410-704-5166 Fax:   410-704-2854 E-mail:   hgill@towson.edu Website:   www.TilotamaProductions.com YouTube:   www.youtube.com/user/CultureTubeAnthro

Harjant Gill's interests include gender, globalization, ethnographic film and popular culture in India and South Asian diaspora. His doctoral dissertation “Becoming a Man in a Modern City” examines the intersections of masculinity, migration and regional cinema in Punjab. Gill is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and has directed and produced several films that have screened at film festivals worldwide. His upcoming documentary, Roots of Love, commissioned by Indian national TV channel Doordarshan, explores the changing significance of hair and turban among Sikhs in India. Gill is fluent in Hindi and Punjabi, and enjoys running and cooking.

Publications:

2012 “Masculinity, Mobility and Transformation in Punjabi Cinema: From Putt Jattan De (Sons of Jat Farmers) to Munde UK De (Boys of UK).” Forthcoming in South Asian Popular Culture, 10: 2

2011 Book Review - Growing Up in a Knowledge Society by Nicholas Nisbitt. Forthcoming in Canadian Geographer

2011 “Home on the Other End of the World.” In forthcoming anthology Paint it Brown: Writing From the South Asian Diaspora, edited by Roksana Badruddoja. Cognella Press (ISBN: 978-1-935551-66-9)

2006 “Why Brokeback Mountain Didn't Win the Oscar.” Trikone Magazine Vol. 21, No.2/3
 

Films:

Roots of Love (2011, 26 mins. Punjabi & English)
Lot's Wife (2008, 9 mins. Turkish)
Milind Soman Made Me Gay (2007, 26 mins. English)
Mission Movie/Una Pelicula de la Mision (2004, 92 mins. English & Spanish)
Some Reasons For Living (2003, 20 mins. English)]
EVERYTHING (2002, 8 mins. English)
As if it Matters… (2001, 25 mins. English)
 

Courses Taught:

Anthropology of India
Sex, Gender & Culture
Cinema, Globalization & Culture
Movies, Magic & Masala
Namaste America
Visual Anthropology (Fall 2011)
South Asian Cinemas & Popular Culture (Fall 2011)