Kiran C. Jayaram is an Associate Professor of Anthropology (University of South Florida) and Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Previously, he held a faculty position at the City University of New York and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Université d’Etat d’Haïti. His research focuses on the anthropology of higher education, political economy, and mobility with geographical focus on South Asia (India), the Caribbean (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba), and the US. From his first major anthropological research project on Haitian laborers and university students in the Dominican Republic, he published several articles, book chapters, and Keywords of Mobility: Critical Engagements (2016, co-edited with Noel Salazar).  For his second major research project, the cultural dynamics of anthropological training globally, he has presented several papers and published in Indian Anthropologist (2025).  Within Area Studies, he co-founded the Transnational Hispaniola Collective (2010), a group of scholars, artists, and practitioners whose work involves countering narratives inherent in scholarship, creative works, and policy about the islands’ populations.  To date, the Collective has several publications, including Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in Haitian and Dominican Studies (2018).  His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, IIE/Fulbright, the American Jewish World Service, and the World Bank. He has taught the introductory of Cultural Anthropology at a community college, an HBCU, and at the University of South Florida.  Other regular courses include an undergraduate Applied Anthropology course and graduate courses (Global Migration and Mobility; Anthropological Theory Today). Before CIFAS, he held executive positions with the Haiti-Dominican Republic Section (LASA), the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (AAA), and the Society for Applied Anthropology.