Tejasvi Nagaraja's research and teaching focus on how class, gender, and race evolve within a changing global division of labor and geopolitics. As a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow, he plans to advance global public conversations about intersecting inequalities.

Nagaraja is currently writing a book about America's World War II experience and generation, reconstructing " a far-flung war within the war, among Americans themselves."