DIADACOSTA

DepartmentofEducationalPolicyStudiesFacultyofEducation,UniversityofAlberta,

Edmonton,Alberta,CanadaPhone:780-492-7608

Email:ddacosta@ualberta.caACADEMICAPPOINTMENTS2019-present: AssociateDirector,

IntersectionsofGender,SignatureArea,UniversityofAlberta2018–present: FullProfessor(tenured) DepartmentofEducationalPolicyStudies, UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,Canada2015-present: AssociateProfessor(tenured) DepartmentofEducationalPolicyStudies, UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,Canada2011-2015: AssociateProfessor(tenured) DepartmentofGlobalDevelopmentStudies Cross-AppointedinDepartmentofSociology AffiliatedwithCulturalStudiesProgram Queen’sUniversity Kingston,Canada2007-2011: AssistantProfessor(tenure-track), DepartmentofGlobalDevelopmentStudies Cross-AppointedinDepartmentofSociology AffiliatedwithCulturalStudiesProgram Queen’sUniversity Kingston,Canada2004–2007: AssistantProfessor(tenure-track), DepartmentofSociology/Anthropology HobartandWilliamSmithColleges Geneva,NewYork2004: Instructor,

DepartmentofDevelopmentSociology,CornellUniversity

Ithaca,NewYork2003: Instructor,

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DepartmentofDevelopmentSociology,CornellUniversity

Ithaca,NewYorkEDUCATION2003: Ph.D.,DepartmentofDevelopmentSociology,FacultyofAgricultureandLife

Sciences,CornellUniversity,NewYork,USA1998: M.A.inSociologyofEducation,DepartmentofSociology,Universityof

Warwick,England1996: B.A.(Honours)inSociology,LadyShriRamCollegeforWomen,Universityof

Delhi,IndiaCITIZENSHIPIndianPermanentResidentofCanadaSPECIALLEAVEIwasonmaternityleavefromNovember1,2011untilOctober31,2012.IwasonmaternityleavestartingSeptember1,2015untilApril15,2016.PUBLICATIONSSingle-AuthoredBooks2016 PoliticizingCreativeEconomy:ActivismandaHungercalledTheater.Dissident

FeminismsSeries,Urbana-Champaign:UniversityofIllinoisPress.

"DaCostaprovidespowerfulanalytictoolstointerrogatethewaysactivistssuchasBirdSongworkwithinandagainstthecomplicitiesandpotentialitiesofneoliberalcreativeeconomydiscourseandpractice....Apowerfulfeministintervention."—HeatherMcLean,UniversityofGlasgow,Antipode

"ByexploringthesetwocompaniesDaCostachallengestheoptimismthatsurroundscreativeeconomictheorybyrevealingthemessinessofitsrealitiesforcommunitiesthathungerfortheartsintheneoliberalpresent."—SarahSaddler,UniversityofMinnesota.TheatreJournal"DaCosta'sworkrepresentsamilestoneinthestudyofIndia'splaceinaglobalizedcommodificationofculture.Ratherthantosimplypointtothisphenomenonorcritiqueeasytargetsofreligionandnation,DaCosta'sbookoffersdepth,nuance,andanalyticalpower.NoconsiderationofIndiainand

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ofglobalizationwillbecompletewithoutit."—NeileshBose,CRC.AsianandGlobalStudies,UniversityofVictoria.ContributionstoIndianSociology“Withitscarefulmethodologyandapraxisofintersectionality,thebookenablesacriticalstudyofdevelopmenttobemorecompellingbyutilizingtheaestheticcreativeproject–themostseeminglynon-capitalizedspaceinthedailylivelihoodofthepoor.”–RachmiDiyahLarasati,AssociateProfessor,WomenandGenderStudies,UniversityofMinnesota.InternationalFeministJournalofPolitics."Fillsagap intermsofuncoveringthehistoryofcontemporarygroupsandlocating their political work in the contexts of intersecting issues of class,caste,gender,andpoliticalpowerplay.Importantly,italsocarefullyexposesthepolitical conditionsunderwhichgroups suchas JanaNatyaManch andBudhan operate and the limitations and possibilities of their operations.Situating the work of the above-mentioned groups in the context ofdevelopmental discourses andwithin global networksof power (especiallythe roleofUNorganizations indefining 'creativity' and its implications forlocal contextswithin India) adds an extremely important dimension to thework."--Nandi Bhatia, Professor, University of Western Ontario, authorofPerformingWomen/PerformingWomanhood:Theatre,Politics,andDissentinNorthIndia"Anambitiousbook. . . .Offeringbothacriticalanalysisof thesentimentofoptimism that so frequently surrounds the creative economy and asympathetic critique of the compromised opportunities that this discourseallowsformarginalandoppositionalculturalgroupsinpostcolonialIndia."--GeraldinePratt,Professor,UniversityofBritishColumbia,authorofFamiliesApart:MigrantMothersandtheConflictsofLaborandLove

2010 DevelopmentDramas:ReimaginingRuralPoliticalActioninEasternIndia,New

Delhi:Routledge.“Passionate and pioneering, Dia Da Costa's Development Dramasunitesintimateandreflexiveethnographywithastutelywieldedtheoryandincisiveanalysistoilluminate"representationalstruggle"inthelivesofveryrealpeopleineasternIndia.Attheheartofthisworkaretheplays,politicsandconvictionsofJanaSanskriti,asmallpoliticaltheatertroupe,foundedinthenineteen-eightiesand still goingstrong.DaCostaeffectively showshowartmesheswithpoliticsastheJanaSanskritiplayersoffertrenchantcritiquesofcorruption,oppressionand"minimalregard"forrurallivesandlivelihoodsatlocal,national andglobal levels.DaCosta'spersuasivecounterargument fortheintrinsicworthoftheselivesisinvaluable.Thecompellingandarticulatevoicestransmittedhere,notjustoftheengagedactorsbutoftheirreflectiveaudiences, are at times so acute andemotionally wrenching that detachedacademicswillreadthisbookattheirperil.”

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---Ann Grodzins Gold, Professor of Religion and Anthropology,SyracuseUniversity

“This brilliant book is packed with insights, is elegantly written andmeticulously researched. … Development Dramas documents the ongoingdispossessionofmeaningsandreimaginesdevelopmentandpoliticalactionbytakingthelabourofmeaningmakingseriously.…Inhermethodologysheis, of course, drawing on the profound insight expressed in the feministaphorism‘thepersonalisthepolitical.”

---KarinKapadia,Associate,OxfordUniversity.ProgressinDevelopmentStudies.12(2&3).2012.

“Thisfascinatingethnographyofpoliticalactionthroughthelensofpolitical

theatrebreathesandbringsnewmeaningintoourconceptualizationsof‘development’.…DevelopmentDramasisbrilliantparticularlyinthemannerinwhichithastheorized,revisitedandcritiquedimportantworksandreceivedconceptsinthelightoffieldinformation.”

---PadminiSwaminathan,ProfessorofDevelopmentStudies,MadrasInstituteofDevelopmentStudies,TheBookReview,July2010.

ReviewsofDevelopmentDramas2013 EvaOsterlind,CentreforTeachingandLearningintheHumanities,Stockholm

University,SwedenforResearch.ResearchinDramaEducation.2013 SrutiBala(AssistantProfessor,UniversityofAmsterdam)forResearchin

DramaEducation.18(1):99.2012 KarinKapadia(AssociateProfessor,OxfordUniversity)forProgressin

DevelopmentStudies.12(2/3):255-257.2010 PadminiSwaminathan(Professor,MadrasInstituteofDevelopmentStudies,

India)forTheBookReview,July2010. EditedBooks2010 ScriptingPower:JanaSanskriti,OnandOffstage.Kolkata:Camp.2011 SecondEditionofScriptingPower:JanaSanskriti,OnandOffstage.Kolkata:

Camp.TranslatedBooks2009 FromBengalitoEnglish:WhereWeStand:FivePlaysfromtheRepertoireof

JanaSanskriti,TranslatedbyDiaDaCosta,Kolkata:Camp.

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SpecialIssueofScholarlyJournals(GuestEditor)2019 CulturalProductionunderMultipleColonialisms.Forthejournal,Cultural

Studies.BasedonSSHRC-fundedworkshop,ReimaginingCreativeEconomy:TransnationalHistories,RegionalStruggles,LocalPractices.

2010 RelocatingCultureinDevelopmentandDevelopmentinCulture,ThirdWorld

Quarterly,31(4).ArticlesinScholarlyJournals2019 ‘Introduction:CulturalProductionunderMultipleColonialisms’.ForCultural

Studies.33(3).1-27.2019 ‘EatingHeritage:Caste,Colonialism,andtheContestationofadivasiCreativity.’

ForCulturalStudies.33(3).2016 ‘CruelPessimismandWaitingforBelonging:TowardsaGlobalPolitical

EconomyofAffect’.CulturalStudies.30(1):1-23.2015 ‘SentimentalcapitalismincontemporaryIndia:Art,Heritage,andDevelopment

inAhmedabad,Gujarat’,inAntipode:ARadicalJournalofGeography.47(1):74-97.

2013 ‘The‘RuleofExperts’inMakingaDynamicMicro-InsuranceIndustryinIndia’

JournalofPeasantStudies.40(5):845-865.2012 ‘LearningfromLabour:TheSpaceandWorkofActivistTheatre’in

ContemporarySouthAsia.20(1):119-133.2010 ‘Introduction:RelocatingCultureinDevelopmentandDevelopmentinCulture’

inThirdWorldQuarterly,31(4):501-522.2010 ‘SubjectsofStruggle:TheatreasSpaceofPoliticalEconomy’inThirdWorld

Quarterly31(4):617-635.2008 ‘“SpoiledSons”and“SincereDaughters”:Schooling,Security,and

EmpowermentinruralWestBengal,India’inSigns:JournalofWomenandCulture33(2):283-308.

2008 ‘TensionsofNeo-liberalDevelopment:StateDiscourseandDramatic

OppositionsinWestBengal’inContributionstoIndianSociology41(3):287-320.

2007 ‘ThePovertyoftheGlobalOrder’(withPhilipD.McMichael—secondauthor).

Globalizations4(4):588–602.

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2007 ‘There’saDevilonWayambaBeach:SocialDramasofDevelopmentand

CitizenshipinNorthwestSriLanka’(withCynthiaMCaron—firstauthor).JournalofAfricanandAsianStudies42(5):415-445.

2004 ‘Re-imaginingCommunity:ScriptingPowerandChangingtheSubjectthrough

JanaSanskriti’sPoliticalTheatreinRuralNorthIndia’(asDiaMohan)JournalofContemporaryEthnography.33(2):178-217.

2004 ‘JanaSanskriti’sTheatreandPoliticalPracticeinRuralBengal:TheMakingof

PopularCulture’(asDiaMohan)SouthAsianPopularCulture.4(1):39-53.BookChapters2017 DiaDaCosta(firstauthor)andRichaNagar(secondauthor), ‘Theatre, Hunger, Politics: Beginning a Conversation’ in Victoria Lawson and

SarahElwood(eds.)RelationalPovertyPolitics: (un)thinkable forms, struggles,possibilities. University of Georgia Press, Geographies of Justice and SocialTransformationBookSeries.

2016 ‘LiberatingDevelopmentfromtheRuleofanEpisteme’inDominique

Caouette/UMontrealandDipKapoor/UnivofAlberta(Eds.)BeyondDevelopmentandGlobalization:SocialMovement&CriticalPerspectivesReader.NewYork:ZedBooks.pp.187-204.

2013 ‘LaughingattheEnemy:RethinkingCritiquesofCommunalPoliticalViolence

inIndia’inJackieSmithandErnestoVerdeja(eds),Globalization,SocialMovements,andPeacebuilding.SyracuseUniversityPress.pp.69-93.

2012 ‘PerformingandPoliticizingEducationinWestBengal’inDipKapoor,Bijoy

Barua,andAl-KarimDatoo(eds).Globalization,Culture,andEducationinSouthAsia:CriticalExcursions.PalgraveMacMillan.pp.155-170.

2010 ‘Introduction:JanaSanskriti’sOptimismoftheWillandIntellect’inScripting

Power:JanaSanskriti,OnandOffstage.Kolkata:Camp.pp.9-32.2010 ‘ContestingLiquorProductionandMaterialDistressinRuralIndia’inPhilip

McMichael(ed.)ContestingDevelopment:CriticalStrugglesforSocialChangeLondonandNewYork:Routledge.pp17-32.

2009 ‘Introduction’inSanjoyGanguly,WhereWeStand:FivePlaysfromthe

RepertoireofJanaSanskriti,Kolkata:Camp,pp.9-20.

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2007 ‘MirrorsofValue?:AdvertisingandPoliticalTheatreintheHegemonicConstructionsofWomeninIndia’inSudhanvaDeshpande(ed)TheatreoftheStreetsNewDelhi:JanaNatyaManch.pp.132-157.

BookReviews2017 NewSubalternPolitics:ReconceptualizingHegemonyandResistancein

India.EditedbyAlfGunvaldNilsenandSrilaRoy.NewDelhi:OxfordUniversityPress.Forthejournal,ContributionstoIndianSociology.51(2):273-276.

2017 ActingUp:GenderandTheatreinIndia,1979Onwards.ByA.Mangai.New

Delhi:LeftwordBooks.Forthejournal,InternationalFeministJournalofPolitics.

2015 TheorizingNGOs:States,feminismsandneoliberalismEditedbyVictoria

BernalandInderpalGrewal.Durham,N.C.:DukeUniversityPress:2014.Forthejournal,JournalofColonialismandColonialHistory.16(3).

2015 Dreamzones:AnticipatingCapitalismandDevelopmentinIndiabyJamieCross

forthejournalAntipode:ARadicalJournalinGeography.Availableonlineat:https://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/book-review_da-costa-on-cross.pdf

2013 DramaforDevelopment:CulturalTranslationandSocialChangebyAndrew

Skuse,MarieGillespie,andGerryPower(eds)forthejournalContributionstoIndianSociology.46(3):422-424.

2012 Timepass:Youth,ClassandthePoliticsofWaitinginIndiabyCraigJeffreyfor

thejournalEnvironmentandPlanningD:SocietyandSpace.Availableonlineat:http://societyandspace.com/reviews/reviews-archive/craig-jeffrey-timepass-youth-class-and-politics-of-waiting-by-dia-da-costa/

2011 CivilSociety,DemocratizationandtheSearchforHumanSecurity(Duncan

McDuie-Ra)AsianStudiesReview.

2011 IndianFeminisms:Law,Patriarchies,andViolenceinIndia(GeetanjaliGangoli)FeministReview.

2006 BeyondLinesofControl:PoliticsandPerformanceontheDisputedBordersof

Ladakh(RavinaAggarwal)ModernDrama49(2):245-8.2003 IntheTimeofTreesandSorrows:Nature,Power,andMemoryinRajasthan

(AnnGrodzinsGold).Seminar.#530:October.67-70.

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INTERVIEWS2019 ‘ThePerilsandPossibilitiesofCreativeEconomy:AConversation,’ByRicha

NagarandSarahSaddler.Agitate!:AnAnti-DisciplinaryAgitation.Availableonlineat:http://agitation.reclaim.hosting/article/the-perils-and-possibilities-of-creative-economy-a-conversation/

2017 ‘Whosecreativitycountsinthecreativeeconomy?’ByScottLingley.

Illuminate.FacultyofEducation,UniversityofAlberta,April24,2017.Availableonlineat:http://illuminate.ualberta.ca/content/whose-creativity-counts-creative-economy

PUBLICSCHOLARSHIP2018 ‘Caste-IgnorantWorldsofProgressiveAcademics:Academically-Transmitted

CasteInnocence’inRaiotWebzine.August24.Availableonlineat:http://www.raiot.in/academically-transmitted-caste-innocence/

2018 ‘TeachIn:EducationfortheJusticeofIndigenousPeoples.’Universityof

Alberta.March22,2018.Availableat:https://www.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/2169871/uiconf_id/36186922/entry_id/0_bspo6ox3/embed/auto?&flashvars[streamerType]=auto

2017 “ChangingPerceptionsofCriminalityThroughCinema.”TheWire.Sep1.

Availableonlineat:https://thewire.in/172695/dakxin-chhara-bajrange-denotified-tribes/

2017 ‘“HeritageCity”Ahmedabadwasbuiltthroughviolenceandexclusion.’The

Wire.August11.Availableonlineat:https://thewire.in/167002/ahmedabad-heritage-city-violence-exclusion/

2017 WebinarPanel:‘PeaceEducationandEducationforPeace’(withDrs.Sophie

Yohani,AnnaKirova,andCarolynParkes).PartoftheCreatingWelcomingLearningCommunitiesWebinarSeriesco-curatedbyDrs.SophieYohaniandAnnaKirova.Availableonlineat:http://welcominglearning.ualberta.ca/recordings

2016 ‘OnIndianExceptionalismandKashmir’.Kafila.11December.Availableonline

at:https://kafila.online/2016/12/11/on-indian-exceptionalism-and-kashmir-dia-da-costa/

INVITEDPRESENTATIONS2019 ‘Caste-ingIntersectionalityunderMultipleColonialisms.’Researchatthe

IntersectionsofGenderLaunch.UniversityofAlberta.March28.

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2019 ‘Whatisintersectionality,’Equity,DiversityandInclusionWeek.Universityof

Alberta.March20.2018 Presenter,‘Ethnography:Fictions,Feminisms,andVulnerability’.Feminisms

UnboundSeries.MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology,Boston.Nov28.2018 Presenter,Roundtableon‘Race,IndigeneityandtheQuestionof

Intersectionality.’UniversityofAlberta.Oct4.2017 Presenter,PanelDiscussionon‘SeeingaResearchProjectthroughits

Struggles’,ResearchDay.UniversityofAlberta.March16,2017.2017 Presenter,PanelDiscussionon‘FundingyourbookprojectwithaSSHRC

grant’.UniversityofAlberta.February8,2017.2016 Presenter,RoundtableforTeach-In,‘AfterTrump’.UniversityofAlberta.Dec2,

2016.2015 ‘SentimentalCapitalism:ACritiqueofCreativeEconomyandDevelopment

DiscourseinIndia’FluidStates:PerformancesofUnknowing.PerformancesStudiesInternational.27Feb-1March,2015.NewDelhi,India.

2015 Presenter,‘CitizensinSearchofCitizenship:ActivistPerformanceContesting

thePatronageofStigmaandSurvivalinGujarat’atNehruMemorialMuseumLibrary,24Feb,2015,NewDelhi,India.

2014 ‘Anideologyforlife?:Locatingvitality,endurance,andaffectinpolitical

activism’.SouthAsiaandGlobalStudiesSeminarSeries,UniversityofMinnesota,TwinCities,March5.

2013 ‘TheGoodWomenofChharanagar:activistperformanceincontemporary

Gujarat’.SchoolofArtsandAesthetics,JawaharlalNehruUniversity.NewDelhi.October30,2013.

2013 ‘Anideologyforlife:howJanaminterruptssentimentalcapitalismin

contemporaryIndia’StudioSafdar,NewDelhi.October29,2013.2013 ‘SentimentalCapitalismincontemporaryIndia:CulturalProductionin

DevelopmentPolicy,1947-present’.InstituteofHumanDevelopment.NewDelhi.October22,2013.

2012 ‘AHungerCalledTheatre:Work,ActivismandAffectamongPostcolonial

Subjects’.InvitedSeminarforStudiesinNationalandInternationalDevelopment,Queen’sUniversity.Kingston,Ontario,Canada.November1,2012.

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2011 ‘LearningfromLabourthroughtheWorkofActivistTheatre’YorkUniversity,

September29,2011(cancelledduetofamilyemergency).2011 ‘TheWorkofTheatreinanAgeofPrecariousLabour’,SpecialSessionLecture

forBritishAssociationofSouthAsianStudies,Southampton,April11-13.2009 ‘LookingfortheEnemyinPlaysandPoliticsoftheLeftinIndia’Workshopon

Globalization,SocialMovements,andPeacebuildingledbyJackieSmithandErnestoVerdeja,October29-31,KrocInstituteforInternationalPeaceStudiesandtheCenterfortheStudyofSocialMovements,UniversityofNotreDame,IN.

2009 ‘TheSnake-GoddessandherAntidote:CompellingCollectivityAgainst

InequalityandUncertainty’June15,IndianInstituteofManagement,Ahmedabad,India.

2008 ‘Antidotes:LifeInsurance,HealthcareSystems,andSnakeGoddessesinRural

India’November19,DepartmentofSociologyWeeklySeminarSeries,Queen’sUniversity,Kingston.

2006 ‘“SpoiledSons”and“SincereDaughters”:Schooling,Security,and

EmpowermentinruralWestBengal,India’February7th,SouthAsiaSeminarSeriesatSyracuseUniversity.

2006 ‘MirrorsofValue:AdvertisingFairnessCreamsinNeoliberalIndia’inDiversity

ColloquiumPanelonEngagingDifferencesColloquiumonDiversityandCivicResponsibilityintheAmericanAcademy,September29,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges,Geneva,NY,USA.

2006 ‘TheBhopalCaseandCorporateSocialResponsibility’organizedbythe

ProgressiveStudentsUnion,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges,Geneva,NY,USA.

2005 ‘EducationasMeansofRepresentationinRuralBengal:ACritiqueoftheFirst

PratichiReport,2002’October15-16,ConferenceReligiousFragmentationandEconomicDevelopmentinSouthAsia,CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA.

2004 ‘PlayingScriptsandScriptingPlays:TheateroftheOppressedinRuralNorth

India’November4,FridayFacultyLunchTalk.HobartandWilliamSmithColleges,Geneva,NY,USA.

2004 ‘JanaSanskriti’stheatreinruralBengal’foraclassonMassCommunications

July31,JamiaMiliaIslamia,NewDelhi,India2004 ‘JanaSanskriti’stheatreinruralBengal’July27,foranaudienceofactors,trade

unionworkers,UniversityofDelhiacademics,andstudents,NewDelhi,India

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2003 ‘The“TheatreoftheOppressed”inaCommunistState:JanaSanskritiinWest

Bengal,India’February24,SouthAsiaProgramSeminarSeries,CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA.

CONFERENCEANDWORKSHOPPARTICIPATION2019 ‘Caste-ingIntersectionalityunderMultipleColonialisms.’Intersectional

Echoes:Cross-GenerationalPracticesandKnowledgeProduction.UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,Dornsife.LosAngeles.March6-8.

2018 RoundtableParticipant,‘ContestingCreativity,CreativeContestations:

ReimaginingPossibilitiesUnderMultipleColonialisms.CriticalEthnicStudiesAssociation.Vancouver,Canada.June21-24.

2017 ‘Theeverydayterrorofcastesupremacy’asaRoundtableParticipantona

PresidentialSession.‘RelearningSolidarities:ChallengesfromDalitFeminisms’,NationalWomenStudiesAssociation.Nov16-19,2017.Baltimore,USA.

2017 RoundtableParticipant.‘BoycottingSettlerColonialExceptionalism/Refusing

SettlerIrresponsibility’,AmericanStudiesAssociation.Nov9-12,2017.2017 Co-Organizer(withAlexandreDaCosta),SSHRC-fundedworkshopbringing

together16nationalandinternationalreputedscholarsonthetopic:‘ReimaginingCreativeEconomy:TransnationalHistories,LocalPractices,RegionalStruggles.’UniversityofAlberta.April27-29,2017.

2017 Presenter,‘EatingHeritage’.‘ReimaginingCreativeEconomy:Transnational

Histories,LocalPractices,RegionalStruggles.’UniversityofAlberta.April27-29,2017.

2016 Presenter,‘RadicalVulnerabilityinChharaandDenePraxis’National

Women’sStudiesAssociation,Montreal.November10,2016.2016 PanelOrganizerandPresenter,‘ChharaperformanceintoxicGujarat’ona

panelentitledFeelingOtherHistories:CultureandPerformanceinAnti-NationalTimes’,SouthAsiaConferenceinUniversityofWisconsin,Madison.October21,2016.

2016 Presenter,‘Atransnationalfeministapproachtoactivistperformanceandthe

creativeeconomy’.CanadianSociologicalAssociation.CongressoftheSocialSciencesandHumanities.May30,2016.

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2015 RoundtableParticipant,‘FeelingtheChill:Self-RepresentingthroughStruggleinaColdAcademy’forCanadianWomen’sArtHistoryInitiative.May7-9.Kingston,ON.

2014(declinedduetoresearchconflict) RoundtableParticipant,‘TransnationalFeminist

Collaborations:ExploringMethodologicalChallenges.’InNationalWomen’sStudiesAssociationConference.SanJuan,PuertoRico.Nov13-16.

2014(cancelledduetoillness)RoundtableParticipant,‘CriticalReflectionson

InternationalPeacebuildingandGlobalization’,forInternationalStudiesAssociation,Toronto.OrganizedbyJackieSmithandErnestoVerdeja(ParticipantsincludeValentineMoghadam,RogerMacGinty,MaryKaldor,IsaacKamola,andCeceliaLynch).

2013(declinedduetoconflictingresearchcommitment)Presenter,‘TheWorkofTheatrein

anAgeofPrecariousLabour’attheFeministPre-Conference,AnnualSouthAsiaConference,Madison,Wisconsin,USA.

2012 PanelOrganizer,LearningfromLabourattheAnnualSouthAsiaConference,

Madison,Wisconsin,USA.October11-14,2012.2012 Presenter,‘AHungercalledTheatre:AffectandActivismamongPostcolonial

Subjects’attheAnnualSouthAsiaConference,Madison,Wisconsin,USA.October11-14,2012.

2012 Discussant,forapanelonRuralModernitiesattheAnnualSouthAsia

Conference,Madison,Wisconsin,USA.October11-14,2012.2012 PanelOrganizer,ThePoliticalEconomyofAffectsandBelongingattheCultural

Studies‘Crossroads’Conference,Paris,June2012.2012 Presenter,‘Crueloptimismamongasurpluspopulationof“borncriminals”’for

apanelonThePoliticalEconomyofAffectsandBelongingattheCulturalStudies‘Crossroads’Conference,Paris,June2012.

2011 ‘TheStateofLabourandtheLabourofRemakingtheStateinNeoliberalIndia’

forapanelonCulturesoftheState,theStateofCultureattheCanadianHistoricalAssociation,Congress,Fredericton,NewBrunswick,May2011.

2011 ‘ACertainFutureforIndianFinanceandKnowledge:Dispossessionand

DevelopmentintheRuralInsuranceSector’forapanelonFinancializationandtheNatureofUnevenDevelopmentatInternationalStudiesAssociation,Montreal,Quebec,16-19March,2011.

2009 ‘BringingIndianTheatretoStudiesofDevelopmentandDemocracyinCanada’

WorkshoponGlobalPerspectives:PracticalApproachestoInternationalizing

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theCurriculum’.April27,CentreforTeachingandLearning,Queen’sUniversity,Kingston,ON,Canada

2009 ‘SpacesofHopeintheRuinsofRule’InternationalStudiesAssociationAnnual

Convention,February15-19,NewYork,NY,USA2008 ‘Antidotes:SnakebitesandSnake-Goddesses”onapanelentitled‘Spirited

Developments’.OrganizerofpanelandPresenter.AnnualSouthAsiaConference.October15-18,Madison,WI,USA

2008 ‘PoliticalTheatre’.CanadianAssociationofTheatreResearch,Roundtableon

AppliedTheatre.May31-June3,Congress,Vancouver,BC,Canada2008 ‘“HavetheyDisabledUs?”:LiquorandtheGrammarsofDistressand

DistributioninruralWestBengal’CanadianAssociationfortheStudyofInternationalDevelopment,OrganizedandPresenteronPerformingValues,MaterializingChoice.June5-7,Congress,Vancouver,BC,Canada

2008 ‘Antidotes:SnakebitesandSnake-Goddesses’CanadianSociologyand

AnthropologyAssociation,PanelonSociologicalTheory.June3–6,Congress,Vancouver,BC,Canada

2008 ‘TheWorkofJanaSanskriti’sRuralPoliticalTheatreinIndia’sDevelopment

Dramas’AmericanSociologicalAssociation,PanelonCulturalStudiesandCulturalProduction.August1-4,Boston,MA,USA

2007 ‘“HavetheyDisabledUs?”:LiquorandtheGrammarsofDistressand

DistributioninruralWestBengal’ConferenceentitledNeoliberalisminContention:ASocialMovementAnalysis,RobertandRuthPolsonInstituteforGlobalDevelopment,September28,CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA

2007 ‘FromPrimitiveAccumulationto“AccumulationbyDispossession”?:Debating

theNewImperialism’InternationalStudiesAssociation28February–3March,Chicago,IL,USA

2006 ‘MirrorsofValue:AdvertisingandPoliticalTheatreintheHegemonic

ConstructionsofWomeninIndia’LeftWordYoungScholars’SeminarRichNationPoorPeople:CriticalPerspectivesontheNeoliberalRegimeinIndia,4-6April,2006JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi,India

2006 ‘ThePovertyoftheGlobalOrder’withPhilipDMcMichael,International

StudiesAssociation,March24,SanDiego,CA,USA2003 ‘PerformanceasaProjectofPersuasion:RepresentationasRealityinthe

PoliticalTheatreofJanaSanskritiinruralBengal’JournalofSouthAsianPopularCultureConference,August,21-23,FairfieldUniversity,NJ,USA

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2002 ‘“WhyCan’tIBeSomeone’sFuture?”’AmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,November,20-24,NewOrleans,LA,USA

2002 ‘ExploringRitualsofReversal:MarxistAestheticsandFolkNavigations’Annual

SouthAsianConference,October10-13,Madison,WI,USA2002 ‘Inter-disciplinarymethodologicalandconceptualissuesinmydissertation

research’EinaudiCenterworkshoponComparativeVisualities,May8,CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA

2002 ‘FromtheKitchentotheStage:Womeninthe‘theatreoftheoppressed’

movementinIndia’ConferenceonWomenandMovementatMarch3,CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA

RESEARCHWORKINGGROUPS2017-presentResearchattheIntersectionsofGender.KULEResearchClusterworkingon

oneofthreeSignatureAreasforUniversityofAlberta,“ResearchattheIntersectionsofGender”.

2015-2017 ‘RelationalPovertyPolitics’ParticipantinbookprojectforRelationalPoverty

NetworkandtheUniversityofWashington.LedbyVictoriaLawsonandSarahElwood.

2009-2011 ‘Globalization,SocialMovements,andPeacebuilding’KrocInstitutefor

InternationalPeaceStudiesandtheCenterfortheStudyofSocialMovements,UniversityofNotreDame,ledbyProfessorJackieSmithandProfessorErnestoVerdeja.

2002–2010 SocialMovementsResearchWorkingGroup,RobertandRuthPolsonInstitute

forGlobalDevelopment,CornellUniversity,ledbyProfessorPhilipD.McMichael.

2005–2008 ‘DevelopmentandHumanSecurity:BeyondtheContradictionsof

ContemporaryGlobalGovernance’TodaInstituteforGlobalPeaceandPolicyResearchledbyProfessorHeloiseWeber(UniversityofQueensland).

GRANTS2018 UnderReview.SSHRCInsightGrant‘Anti-OppressiveEducationamongSouth

AsianCanadians.’2018 ‘Anti-OppressiveEducationandSouthAsianCanadianArtPracticesof

Reconciliation.’KillamCornerstoneGrant.UniversityofAlberta.$36,016.

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2018 ‘Anti-OppressiveEducationamongSouthAsianCanadians:AnOralHistoryoftheMinquonPanchayat.’SupportfortheAdvancementofScholarship.UniversityofAlberta.$7000.

2017 (Collaborator),“BuildingResearchattheIntersectionsofGender.”Kule

InstituteofAdvancedStudies.ResearchClusterGrant.UniversityofAlberta.($90,000).

2017 (PI)DistinguishedVisitor’sFund,VPResearchOffice,UniversityofAlberta.For

DakxinBajrange(Chharafilm-makerandTheatreDirector).Edmonton,Feb2-10,2018.($7420).

2016 (Co-PI,AlexandreDaCosta)‘ReimaginingCreativeEconomy:Transnational

Histories,LocalPractices,RegionalStruggles,’SocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanadaConnectionGrant.($24,438)(Fileno.611-2016-0001).

2016 (Co-PI,AlexandreDaCosta)‘ReimaginingCreativeEconomy:Transnational

Histories,LocalPractices,RegionalStruggles,’KuleInstituteofAdvancedStudies,UniversityofAlberta.($2,000).

2014 ‘Transnationalhistoriesofindigeneity:ArtandActivism’.GrantfromFour

DirectionsAboriginalStudentsCentre,Queen’sUniversity.($500)2014 ‘Transnationalhistoriesofindigeneity:ArtandActivism’.GrantfromStudiesin

NationalandInternationalDevelopmentSeminarSeries,Queen’sUniversity.($500)

2014 ‘Transnationalhistoriesofindigeneity:ArtandActivism’.GrantfromAgnes

EtheringtonArtsCentre,Queen’sUniversity.($500).2013 (SSHRC4a)‘Raisinginsuranceawareness:Insurance,socialprotection,and

riskinagrarianIndia’(external),SocialScienceandHumanitiesResearchCouncil,Canada.InsightDevelopmentGrant.

2013 ‘Raisinginsuranceawareness:Insurance,socialprotection,andriskinagrarian

India’(internal),SenateAdvisoryResearchCommittee,Queen’sUniversity.($9926).

2010 ‘TheWorkofTheatreinanAgeofPrecariousLabour’,SocialScienceandHumanitiesResearchCouncil,InsightDevelopmentGrant(formerlyResearchDevelopmentInitiative)($32,770)(Fileno.820-2010-0106).

2010 ‘TheWorkofTheatreinanAgeofPrecariousLabour’Queen’sUniversity

SenateAdvisoryResearchCouncilgrant($6473)2009 ‘TheWorkofTheatreintheDevelopmentofDemocracyinIndia’Queen’s

UniversityAdvisoryResearchCouncilgrant($8140)

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2009 ‘LiberationTheatreinEmergingEconomies’,Queen’sUniversityCentrefor

TeachingandLearning.CommunityServiceLearningGrant($2500)UsedasmatchingfundsforbringingmembersofIndiantheatretroupeJanaSanskritiasvisitingartiststoQueen’sUniversity(February22-March22,2009).

2009 Queen’sUniversityCentreforTeachingandLearning.Teachingand

EnhancementLearningGrant($620).UsedasmatchingfundsforbringingmembersofIndiantheatretroupeJanaSanskritiasvisitingartiststoQueen’sUniversity(February22-March22,2009).

2008 DepartmentofCulturalStudies,Queen’sUniversity.MatchingFundsfor

VisitingArtistsinResidence($500)forbringingmembersofIndiantheatretroupeJanaSanskritiasvisitingartiststoQueen’sUniversity(February22-March22,2009).

2008 QueensUniversityPrincipal’sDevelopmentFundgrantforVisitingArtistsin

Residence($16,500)forbringingmembersofIndiantheatretroupeJanaSanskritiasvisitingartiststoQueensUniversity(February22-March22,2009).

2008 Queen’sUniversityOfficeofResearchServicesawardforcategory4aSSHRCStandardResearchGrantapplicants($5000).

2008 Queen’sUniversityAdvisoryResearchCouncilgrant($2000)2008 Queen’sUniversityConferenceTravelgrant($500)forCongress20082007 Queen’sUniversityConferenceTravelgrant($500)forConferenceentitled

NeoliberalisminContention:ASocialMovementAnalysis,RobertandRuthPolsonInstituteforGlobalDevelopment,CornellUniversity

2006 HobartandWilliamSmithCollegesFacultyResearchGrant($2500)2006 HobartandWilliamSmithCollegesFacultyResearchAssistantSupportGrant

($500)2005 HobartandWilliamSmithCollegesFacultyResearchGrant($2500)1998-2003 CornellUniversityTuitionFellowship1998-20032003 RobertandRuthPolsonInstituteforGlobalDevelopment,DissertationWrite-

UpGrant($3000)

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2002 TaraknathDasFoundationDissertationGrant,SouthernAsianInstitute,ColumbiaUniversity($3000)

2000-2001 FordFoundationInterdisciplinaryTrainingGrantonNationalism,Citizenship,

andIdentityFormation2000-2001 MarioEinaudiInternationalDissertationGrant($3000)2001 BeatriceBrownDissertationResearchGrant($200)2000-2001 DissertationResearchGrantfromtheDepartmentofRuralSociology($1500)1999 MarioEinaudiInternationalSummerTravelGrant($3500) 1997-1998 BritishChevening/UniversityofWarwick(Open)ScholarshipforaMastersin

SociologyofEducationTEACHING&GRADUATESUPERVISIONUniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,AB,CanadaUndergraduateCourses: EDPS411 Cross-CulturalStudiesinEducation EDPS422 InternationalDevelopmentandEducationGraduateCourses: EDPS564 EducationandSocialChange EDPS501 FeministTheoriesandEpistemologies EDPS681 ResearchFrameworksandQualitativeMethodologiesGraduateSupervision:2019 Advisor,forBanazeerYaqoob,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,Universityof

Alberta.Advisor,forAnnetteWentworth,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.(Completed)Master’sThesisSupervisor,forAnitaKhakh,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.Master’sThesisSupervisor,forAreejAlshammiry,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.DoctoralSupervisor,forGillianRobinson,Ph.D.EducationalPolicyStudies.DoctoralCo-Supervisor,forAllesonMason.Ph.D.EducationalPolicyStudies.

2019 InternalExternal,forShamaRangwala.Ph.D.EnglishandFilmStudies.

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2018 Advisor,forBanazeerYaqoob,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,Universityof

Alberta.Advisor,forAnnetteWentworth,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.Master’sThesisSupervisor,forAnitaKhakh,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.Master’sThesisSupervisor,forAreejAlshammiry,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.

Back-updoctoralSupervisor,forIreneWolfstone,Ph.D.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.

2018 InternalExternal:SeanO’Brien,‘PrecarityandtheHistoricityofthePresent:

AmericanLiteratureandCulturefromtheLongBoomtotheLongDownturn.’DepartmentofEnglishandFilmStudies.UniversityofAlberta.March28.

2017 Advisor,forAnnetteWentworth,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.

Advisor,forAnitaKhakh,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.

Advisor,forBanazeerYaqoob,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.

Advisor,forZahraJafarova,M.Ed.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.

Back-upSupervisor,forIreneWolfstone,Ph.D.EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.

2017 InternalExternal:PradeepSangapala,‘TheImpactofColonialand

NationalistThoughtsonthePostcolonialSpatialThinkinginSriLanka:ThePlanningandBuildingofAnuradhapuraNewCity.UrbanandRegionalPlanningProgram,UniversityofAlberta,April12.

2017 InternalExternal:CandyKhan,‘EmbodimentofWorkplaceExperiencesin

PaidEmployment’.DepartmentofEducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta.March15.

Queen’sUniversity,Kingston,ON,CanadaUndergraduateCourses:

DEVS240 CultureandDevelopment(DepartmentCoreCourse,150cap)DEVS350 GenderandDevelopment(75cap)DEVS395 PostcolonialTheoriesandDevelopment(50cap)DEVS497 Education:AContradictoryResource(15cap)DEVS321 DevelopmentDramas(50cap)

UndergraduateSupervision:

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2011 SaraMunsch:ProblematizingtherepresentationoffloodsinPakistan.Queen’s

University.2011 NicoleBuscema:CriticalanalysisofCanadianundergraduateinvolvementin

healthanddevelopmentworkinKenya,Queen’sUniversity.GraduateCourses: DEVS802 CulturalPoliticsofDevelopment(DepartmentCoreCourse) DEVS807 Education:AContradictoryResource CUST800 PopularCulture,PopulistCapital(IndependentStudy2012) SOC800 CivilSocietyanditsDiscontents(IndependentStudy2009)GraduateSupervisionatQueen’sUniversity:2014–2015 Supervisor,forPh.D.forAdamSaifer,‘QuestioningArtsasElixirdiscoursein

CanadianCommunityDevelopmentInitiatives’CulturalStudiesProgram.Queen’sUniversity.

Undermysupervision,AdamreceivedtheOntarioGraduateScholarshipand

theSocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilawardforhisPh.D.research.

2015-2018 CommitteeMemberforAdamSaifersinceIleftQueen’sUniversityinJune

2015.Completed.2013-2014 Supervisor,forM.A.MajorResearchPaperforBakhtArif,‘PoliticalTheatrein

theShadowofAuthoritarianRule:thecaseofPakistan’.GlobalDevelopmentStudies,Queen’sUniversity.

2012–2014 Supervisor,forM.A.forSmitaMitra,‘IsFolkArtaCommonProperty

Resource:TheCaseofBaulsinBengal?’.CulturalStudiesProgram,Queen’sUniversity.

2011-2016 SupervisorforPh.D.MeaghanFrauts,‘CulturalPoliticsofResiliencein

Kingston,Jamaica’.CulturalStudiesProgram,Queen’sUniversity.OGS(2012)andSSHRC(2013)awardedproject.Completed.

Undermysupervision,MeaghanFrautsreceivedtheOntarioGraduate

ScholarshipandtheSocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilawardforherresearch.

2010 SupervisorforM.A.one-yearMajorResearchPaperforLaraPurvis,‘The

significanceofneoliberalismandevolvinggenderrolesintransactionalsexrelationshipsinpost-apartheidSouthAfrica’DepartmentofGlobalDevelopmentStudies,Queen’sUniversity.

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2009-2013 Supervisor for Ph.D. Jonathan Owen, ‘India as Slum, India as City:Globalization,BollywoodandtheBrandingofIndia’.CulturalStudiesProgram,Queen’sUniversity.

Undermysupervision,JonathanOwensreceivedaDouglasSheppardWilson

award(2009-2010)fromQueen’sUniversityforhisPh.D.project.2014 CommitteeMember,forPh.D.forSunnyKerr‘MakingLiving:ArtistRun

VentureinNeoliberalAffectiveCommunities’.CulturalStudies,Queen’sUniversity.

2013-2015 CommitteeMember,forPh.D.forA.W.Lee‘ParisisBurningSouthBronx:

Anauto-ethnographicresearch-creationandinterventionintorace,gender,sexuality,andnationthroughcampironyandhip-hop’.CulturalStudies,Queen’sUniversity.

2011 CommitteeMemberforM.A.thesisforMarleyBudreau,‘Constituting

GovernableSubjects:FoucaultandGovernmentality'sAccountof'GoverningthroughFreedom'andtheCaseoftheIndigenousPopulationsofCanada’DepartmentofSociology,Queen’sUniversity,March28.

2009-16 CommitteeMemberforPh.D.JeffreyBarbeau,‘Biopolitics,theCommon,and

Affect’CulturalStudiesProgram,Queen’sUniversity.2008-12 CommitteeMemberforPh.D.AndreaHunter,‘DigitalHumanities’,

DepartmentofSociology,Queen’sUniversity.2011-12 CommitteeMember forM.A.one-yearMajorResearchPaper forMaralyne

Narayan,‘TransnationalAgenciesandtheEmpowerFoundation:howdoesthediscourseoftransnationalagenciesimpactthisgrassrootsorganizationofThaisexworkers?’DepartmentofGlobalDevelopmentStudies,Queen’sUniversity.

2010-11 CommitteeMemberforM.A.one-yearMajorResearchPaperforJessica

Veaudry,‘WhoSpeakswithinDevelopmentResearch’DepartmentofGlobalDevelopmentStudies,Queen’sUniversity.

2016 Internal-ExternalExaminerforSanoberUmar,Ph.D.candidacyexam.

‘Mappingthebordersof‘CommunalViolence’andIdentityinPostcolonialIndia.’January28.

2009-2013 Internal-ExternalExaminerforPh.D.forReejuRay,PlacingtheKhasiJaintiah

Hills:Sovereignty,CustomandNarrativesofContinuity’.History,Queen’sUniversity.

2011 Internal-ExternalExaminer,forPh.D.forDavinaM.DesRoches,‘Changing

Cityscapes,Museums,andtheConservationofWorkingClassHeritage’.DepartmentofSociology,Queen’sUniversity.

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ExternalExaminerUndergraduate:2008 CristinaBain,DepartmentofSociologyandAnthropology,HobartandWilliam

SmithColleges.‘HeroicSuffering:TheGenderIdentityConstructionofRevolutionaryIdentitiesinVietnameseWomen’.IwasCristinaBain’sadviseratHobartandWilliamSmithCollegesforthreeyears.Undermysupervision,CristinaBainsecuredaFulbrightFellowship.SheiscurrentlydoingherPh.D.attheDepartmentofSociologyinUniversityofWisconsin,Madison.

HobartandWilliamSmithColleges,Geneva,NY,USA UndergraduateCoursesTaught:

SOC100 IntroductiontoSociology(40cap)SOC240 GenderandDevelopment(40cap)SOC259 NewSocialFutures(40cap)WMNS100 IntroductiontoWomen’sStudies(40cap)BIDIS365 DramaticWorldsofSouthAsia(40cap)SOC330 SociologyofArtandCulture(25cap)

HonorsResearchSupervised:

2006 CristinaBain,‘VietnameseandU.S.womeninthemilitary’2006–07 AyeletCohen,‘Foodritualandhierarchy’2006 LeanneRoncolato,‘GenderjusticeinNicaraguaandKerala’2005-06 JenniferThorne,‘HospicemovementinupstateNY’

CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USAUndergraduateCoursesTaught:

RSOC261 SociologyofSustainableDevelopment

ADMINISTRATIVEDUTIESUniversityofAlbertaJan2019-present AssociateDirector,ResearchattheIntersectionsofGender,Signature

Area,UniversityofAlberta.

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Fall2016-present GraduateAffairsCommittee,EducationalPolicyStudies,UniversityofAlberta

2017-2018 UndergraduateStudiesCommittee,EducationalPolicyStudies,

UniversityofAlbertaQueen’sUniversityWinter2014-2015 GraduateCommittee,GlobalDevelopmentStudies,Queen’sUniversityFall2010–November2011 SenateAdvisoryResearchCommittee,Queen’sUniversitySinceFall2007-June2011 RepresentativeforGlobalDevelopmentStudiesontheQueen’s

UniversityFacultyAssociation(QUFA)SinceFall2010-June2011 MemberofCulturalStudiesSteeringCommittee,CulturalStudies

Program2010-2011 MemberoftheChair’sAdvisoryCommittee,DepartmentofGlobal

DevelopmentStudiesSince2009-June2011 GraduateCommittee,DepartmentofGlobalDevelopmentStudiesWinter2009-2010 Co-chairofStudiesinNationalandInternationalDevelopmentWeekly

SeminarSeries,Queen’sUniversity.Facultylevelcommittee.2008-2009 ChairoftheWorkloadCommittee,DepartmentofGlobalDevelopment

Studies2008–2009 RenewalTenureandPromotionCommittee,DepartmentofGlobal

DevelopmentStudies2007 Queen’sProjectforInternationalDevelopment,MemberoftheAdvisory

Council,University-levelcommittee.2007-2008 Queen’sCoalitionAgainstRacialandEthnicDiscrimination,AdvisorHobartandWilliamSmithColleges,Geneva,NY,USA2005–2007 BoardMemberNewYorkStateIndependentCollegeConsortiumforStudyin

India(Bard,Skidmore,Hartwick,St.Lawrence,HobartandWilliamSmith,HamiltonColleges)

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• ChairoftheBoard(July1,2006–2007)• SpeakerinOrientationprogramforApril8,2005andApril1,2006• PlanningandconceptualizingforFall2005program• Participationinboardmeetings

2006–2007 SteeringCommitteeMember,FisherCenterfortheStudyofMenandWomen,

HobartandWilliamSmithColleges

• RaisedfundstocoordinatethetourofeightmembersofIndiantheatretroupeJanamofU.S.universitycampuses(HobartandWilliamSmithColleges,SmithCollege,TrinityCollege,SyracuseUniversity,NewYorkUniversity,Berkeley,Michigan,Tulaneandmore).

2005-2006 ConstructionofPeaceStudiesProgram,HobartandWilliamSmithCollegesPROFESSIONALSERVICEExternalReviewerforGrantingBodies: Assessor,InsightGrants,SocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanada

(2012-13). ExternalReviewerforScholarlyJournals:

Antipode(2013,2018)Ethnography(2012)ContemporarySouthAsia(2012,2015)Interventions:InternationalJournalofPostcolonialStudies(2011)JournalofPeasantStudies(2009)FeministStudies(2009)JournalofResearchinRuralEducation(2008)ModernDrama(2006)Gender,Place,andCulture(2005)Mobilizations(2004)Transformations(2003)

AssociationMembership NationalWomen’sStudiesAssociation AmericanStudiesAssociation

PerformanceStudiesInternational CanadianSociologicalAssociation(includingSocinet) CanadianAssociationfortheStudyofInternationalDevelopment