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Episode 51: Home under the Big Top

Amplified Oklahoma Show Notes

August 21, 2020

Show Notes

What is home? It seems like a simple question, but it can mean many different things depending on who you are. For people in the circus industry who travel around the country to perform for months at a time, the concept of home can be more complicated. This month on Amplified Oklahoma, we are exploring the lives of the circus performers of Hugo, Oklahoma as they describe the different shapes, sizes, and ideas of what home means to them. We'll also hear from Dr. Rebecca Sheehan, a professor in the OSU Geography Department whose works focus on historical phenomena, place, and identity.

Show Host

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Dhruba Sinha

Dhruba moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma in 2015. She completed her Masters in 2017 and joined the Ph.D. program. She grew up in a small town in West Bengal, India. After completing her B.A. in Sociology with Honors from Kalyani University, she moved to Pune to get an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Pune (currently known as Savitribai Phule Pune University), Maharashtra, India. Before joining the graduate program at Oklahoma State University, she worked with several non-governmental organizations.

Currently, she is finishing her third year in the Ph.D. program. She studies group identity, group relations, and social movements. She is also interested in studying events of extreme conflict. Dhruba serves as the Vice President of the Sociology Graduate Student Association (SGSA).

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