Uday Jain’s research and teaching focuses on the question of education and the promises and limits it holds in the collective pursuit of freedom, focussing especially on the work and legacies of Dr. W.E.B Du Bois and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar]. His dissertation “From the Abolition of Untouchability to a Philosophy of Liberatory Education: B. R. Ambedkar and W.E.B. Du Bois in Dialogue” brings into view the work of two central in the liberatory traditions of South Asian anti-caste political thought and Black political thought to argue that the two struggles were conceptually intertwined, and that their respective insights remain necessary for making possible universal political and social emancipation."