About
Patrick Inglis is a doctoral candidate in the sociology program at the City University of New York Graduate Center. A former high school English teacher in Vancouver, Canada, he moved to New York City in August 2003. His dissertation is based on ethnographic research carried out in Bangalore, India, primarily between 2007 and 2008. The research concerns the life and work of Bangalore’s golf caddies—the adolescent boys and men who carry the golf bags of members and guests at three exclusive golf clubs in the city. The goal is to understand how the caddies, as one segment of the informal labor economy, are negotiating change in this rapidly urbanizing city at the center of the global IT industry. The study reflects his broader interests in work, place, and social mobility in developing world cities. Patrick presently works an adjunct lecturer at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and as a graduate teaching assistant at New York University.
