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MANGALA SUBRAMANIAM 09/15
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
EDUCATION
2001 PhD University of Connecticut
1996 Equivalent M.A., Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut.
1995 M.S., International Development & Appropriate Technology, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Current Research Interests: Gender (class and race), Social Movements, Globalization, Research
Methods, South Asia, specifically India
EMPLOYMENT
08/07- Associate Professor, Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Affiliated faculty: Asian Studies; Women’s Studies
08/11-07/15 Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology, Purdue University
06/06-07/07 Assistant Professor, Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette
08/01-05/06 Assistant Professor, Sociology & Women's Studies, Purdue University, West
Lafayette.
07/99-01/00 Affiliated with Institute of Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo,
Japan) as Ph.D. Fellow
Professional Service
2015-2018 Treasurer-elect/Treasurer/Past Treasurer (3 year term), Sociologists for Women
in Society (elected)
2014-2016 Member, Editorial Board, Gender & Society
2013-14 National Science Foundation, panelist
2011-2014 Secretary/Treasurer & Council Member, ASA’s Sex & Gender Section (elected)
2008 - 2009 Member, Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship Committee, Society for
the Study of Social Problems
2008 – 2010 Member, Nominations Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society (elected)
2006-2007 Chair, Lee Scholar-Activist Support Fund, Society for the Study of Social
Problems
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FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS
2015 CLAs Center for Research on Diversity & Inclusion (CRDI) Excellence in
Research Award; Krishnan, Preethi and Mangala Subramaniam. “Dowry,
Domestic Violence and Gender: Legal interpretations by India’s Supreme Court.”
2010-11 College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Center for Behavioral and Social Sciences
fellowship for spring 2011 (Project: Gender, Sexuality, Scripting and Framing:
Integrative Theoretical Model for Analyzing HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategies)
2010 College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Departmental Educational Excellence Award
2009-2010 Department Nominee, College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Award for Educational
Excellence
Spring 2006 Faculty Recognition for Graduate Teaching and Mentoring, American Studies
Program Graduate Student Organization, Purdue University
Fall 2003 Daryl B. Evans Teaching Award, Department of Sociology, Purdue University
2001 Department of Sociology's Ronald L. Taylor award for best graduate student
paper, ‘Organizing' Groups: Participation and Women's Empowerment: Evidence
from Rural India
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2000-01 Department of Sociology (UCONN) ‘Outstanding Student’ award
2000-01 Second Prize, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Conflict, Action, and Social
Change Division of Society for the Study of Social Problems for paper, The
Dynamics of Caste and Gender: The Devadasi System
1999-2000 United Nations University/Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS, Tokyo)
dissertation writing fellowship
1999-2000 Honorable mention award, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Conflict,
Action, and Social Change Division of Society for the Study of Social Problems
for paper, Whose Interests? Gender Issues and Wood-fired Cooking Stoves
1999 Fellowship award from Dean, Graduate School for ICPSR summer workshop on
Hierarchical Linear Models
1998-99 Certificate of Honorable Mention, Dissertation Proposal, Rose Laub Coser
Award, Eastern Sociological Society
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RESEARCH
Books
Subramaniam, Mangala. Social Movements: Local, National, and Transnational Contexts (provisional
title). Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming
Bradley, Tamsin, Emma Tomlin, and Mangala Subramaniam. 2009. Dowry: Bridging the Gap
between Theory and Practice, Cambridge, UK: Zed Book and Delhi, India: Women Unlimited, 245
pages.
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2006. The Power of Women’s Organizing: Gender, Caste, and Class in India.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (sister imprint of Rowman and Littlefield), 160 pages.
Purkayastha, Bandana and Mangala Subramaniam (Co-Editors). 2004. The Power of Women’s Informal
Networks: Lessons in Social Change from South Asia and West Africa. Lanham, MD: Lexington
Books, (sister imprint of Rowman and Littlefield), 142 pages.
Articles Leamaster, Reid J. and Mangala Subramaniam. “Career and/or Motherhood? Gender and the LDS
Church.” Sociological Perspectives, DOI: 10.1177/0731121415603852 (Advance online October, 5,
2015)
Young Lisa J. and Mangala Subramaniam. “Ecocritical Consciousness Meets Oppositional
Consciousness: Reading Early Chicago Activism through an Environmental Lens.” Sociological
Focus, forthcoming
Mangala Subramaniam and Laura Zanotti. “Introductory Essay: Environmental Justice-Just
Livelihoods.” Dialogues section, Politics, Groups, Identities, forthcoming 2015
Krishnan, Preethi and Mangala Subramaniam. 2015. “Domestic Violence and Intra-family Dynamics:
Analysis of India’s Supreme Court Rulings.” Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research 9:45-72
Williford, Beth and Mangala Subramaniam. 2015. “Transnational Field and Frames: Organizations in
Ecuador and the US.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change 38: 37-67
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Krishnan, Preethi and Mangala Subramaniam. 2015. “Understanding the State: Right to Food
Campaign in India.” The Global South 8(2): 101-118
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2015 “Introduction: States and Social Movements in the Modern World-
System.” JWSR (ASA’s PEWS section journal), 21(1): 1-7
Kadowaki, Joy and Mangala Subramaniam. 2014. “Coping with Emotional Labor: Strategies Adopted
by Instructors.” White Privilege Conference Journal: Understanding and Dismantling Privilege IV(2):
154-172
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2014. “Neoliberalism and Water Rights: Case of India.” Current Sociology
62(3): 393-411
Subramaniam, Mangala, Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy, and Christopher Bunka. 2014. “Women’s
Movement Groups in State Policy Formulation: Addressing Violence against Women.” Indian
Anthropologist (Special Issue on State and Public Policy) 44(1): 37-52 (note: this is a national journal)
Subramaniam, Mangala, Robert Perrucci, and David Whitlock. 2014. “Intellectual Closure: A
Theoretical Framework Linking Knowledge, Power, and the Corporate University.” Critical Sociology
40(3): 411-30 (first published online December 21, 2012).
Subramaniam, Mangala and Beth Williford. 2012. “Contesting Water Rights: Collective Ownership &
Struggles against Privatization,” Sociology Compass 6(5): 413-24
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2012. “Grassroots Groups and Poor Women’s Empowerment in Rural India,”
International Sociology 27 (1): 70 - 93.
Mitra, Debarashmi and Mangala Subramaniam. 2009. “Trafficking in Women as Gender-Based
Violence: Policy Initiatives of UN and India,” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 46
(2):251-78.
Cherukuri, Suvarna, Dana Britton and Mangala Subramaniam. 2009. “Women in an Indian State
Prison: Intersections of Gender, Caste and Class,” Feminist Criminology, 4 (July): 252 - 274.
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2009. “Capability Building as Potential to Protest Gender and Caste Injustice:
Poor Women in Rural India,” Theory in Action, 2 (1): 1-22.
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2008. “Your Job is Bangalored! The Role of the State in Outsourcing in the
IT Industry,” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 45(1): 37-58.
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2007. “NGOs and Resources in the Construction of Intellectual Realms:
Cases from India” Critical Sociology 33 (3): 551-73.
Subramaniam, Mangala, Manjusha Gupte and Debarashmi Mitra. 2003. “Local to Global:
Transnational Networks and Indian Women’s Grassroots Organizing,” Mobilization, 8(3): 335-52.
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2003. “Capacity-building and Change: Women and Development in India,”
Women’s Studies Quarterly, 31(3 & 4):192-211.
Purkayastha, Bandana, Mangala Subramaniam, Manisha Desai and Sunita Bose. 2003. “The Study of
Gender in India: A Partial Review,” Gender & Society, 17(4): 503-524.
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Subramaniam, Mangala. 2000. “Whose Interests? Gender Issues and Wood-fired Cooking Stoves.”
American Behavioral Scientist, Special Issue Vol. 43 No. 4 January 2000: 707-728.
Subramaniam, Mangala. 1994. “Designing Woodfired Cooking Stoves: Where is the Woman?” Economic
& Political Weekly, Vol. XXIX No. 20 (May 14, 1994): 1176-1183.
Adviser for publication by an undergraduate honors student
Lucas, Wynne R. 2014. “Transnational Framing of the 2012 Case of Rape in India.” (Research
Snapshot) - Adviser: Mangala Subramaniam. The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research (Lucas
is a sociology honors undergraduate). Volume 4: 92
Editor, Special Issue
Subramaniam, Mangala. Editor, Special Issue of JWSR-States and Social Movements in the Modern
World-System. 2015. JWSR (ASA’s PEWS section journal), 21(1)
Mangala Subramaniam and Laura Zanotti. Co-Editors, Dialogues section, Politics, Groups, Identities,
forthcoming 2015
Subramaniam, Mangala, Organizer, Symposium on “Bridging Scholarship: The Indian Women’s
Movement,” Contemporary Sociology, November 2004, 33(6): 635-39.
Policy Briefs
Subramaniam, Mangala and Chris Bunka. 2012. Food Security and State: Policy Considerations for the
Contemporary Food Crisis. Policy Education Brief, Global Policy Research Institute, Purdue University
Symposium Essay
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2004. “The Indian Women’s Movement,” Introductory and Synthesizing
Essay for Symposium in Contemporary Sociology, 33(6): 635-39.
Symposium
Subramaniam, Mangala (PI and Organizer) [Bert Useem, Ellen Gruenbaum as co-PIs]. Symposium
titled ‘State and Social Movements: Violence, Health, Food Security’ in IIT, Madras, India, March 2013
(see related grant listed below)
Book Chapters
Subramaniam, Mangala and Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy. 2014. “Gender, Caste, and Class:
Structural Violence in India.” Pp. 240-248 in Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class and
Gender edited by Shirley Jackson. UK: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2014. “Resisting Gendered Religious Nationalism: The Case of Religious
Based Violence in Gujarat, India.” Advances in Gender Research: Gendered Perspectives on Conflict
and Violence edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos. Volume 18 part b: 73-98. Bingley,
UK: Emerald.
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2013. “The Medicalization of HIV/AIDS Policy: The Case of India.” Pp.
177-202 in Global HIV/AIDS Politics, Policy and Activism: Persistent Challenges and Emerging
Issues edited by Raymond Smith. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.
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Lowrie, Patricia, Lisa Greenhill Mangala Subramaniam, and Ken Gorczyka. 2013. “Origin of
Coordinates: The Dilemma of Social Constructs.” Pp. 41-54 in A Strategy for Inclusiveness in
Veterinary Medicine edited by Sandy Amass and Pat Lowrie. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University
Press.
Subramaniam, Mangala, Greg Gibson, and Beth Williford. 2010. “From U.S. Corporate Models to
Indian Kitty Parties: House Parties as Models of Women’s Empowerment.” Pp. 186-97 in Gender
Parties, Global Markets edited by L. Susan Williams and Michelle Bemiller. Boulder, CO: Lynne
Rienner Publishers.
Subramaniam, Mangala, Karen Remedois, and Debarashmi Mitra. 2009. “Dowry and Transnational
Activism.” Pp. 197-225 in Dowry: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice edited by Tamsin
Bradley, Emma Tomlin, and Mangala Subramaniam. London, UK: Zed & New Delhi, India: Women
Unlimited.
Purkayastha, Bandana, Mangala Subramaniam, Manisha Desai and Sunita Bose. 2009. “The Study of
Gender in India: A Partial Review.” Pp. 92-109 in Global Gender Research: Transnational
Perspectives edited by Christine Bose and Minjeong Kim. NY: Routledge.
Subramaniam, Mangala. 2009. “Negotiating the Field in Rural India: Location, Organizational
Structure, and Identity Salience.” Pp. 201-226 in Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Gender,
Ethnicity, Class, Caste, and Religion in Field Work, edited by Martha Huggins and Marie-Louise
Glebbeek. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Ferree, Myra Marx and Mangala Subramaniam. 2001. “The International Women’s Movement at
Century’s End.” Pp. 496-506 in Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives, Dana Vannoy (ed.) Roxbury
Press.
Book Review Essays Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing Is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves by Shehzad
Nadeem. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Contemporary Sociology, 2012, 41(3): 353-54
Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India by Raka Ray and Seemin Quayum.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, Gender & Society, 2011, 25(1): 133-34.
The Gender Politics of Development by Shirin M. Rai. London, New York: Zed Books; New Delhi:
Zubaan. Politics & Gender, 2010, 6(1): 159-62
Essential Writings of André Béteille, edited by Dipankar Gupta. New Delhi, India: Oxford University
Press. Contemporary Sociology, 2007, 36(4): 384-385.
Grass-roots NGOs by Women for Women: The Driving Force of Development in India by Handy,
Femida, Meenaz Kassam, Suzanne Feeney and Bhagyashree Ranade. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks,
London: Sage Publications. Gender & Development, 2007, 15 (3): 547-8.
Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks, by Valentine M. Moghadam. Baltimore MD:
John Hopkins University Press. Contemporary Sociology, 2007, 35(2): 182-83.
Gender and the Political Economy of Development, by Shirin M. Rai. Malden, MA: Blackwell
Publishers. Contemporary Sociology, 2003, 32(5): 609-611.
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Working Papers
Subramaniam, Mangala. “Citizenship and Women's Empowerment: 'Quotas' and 'Voices' in the Rural
Indian Context.” UNU/IAS Working Paper, UNU/IAS Tokyo (Japan)
Subramaniam, Mangala. Concept and Measurement of the 'Status' of Women - Case of Rural India.
WHODSIC (India) Working Paper No. 10, 1995.
Encyclopedia Entries
Subramaniam, Mangala. “NGOs and Grassroots Organizing.” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Gender and Sexuality Studies edited by Nancy Naples, Maithree Wickramasinghe, and Angela Wong
Wai Ching, forthcoming
Subramaniam, Mangala, Christopher Bunka, and Soon seok Park. 2013. “Desertification” in Wiley-
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization (online) edited by George Ritzer.
Subramaniam, Mangala, David Whitlock, and Beth Williford. 2012. “Water Crisis.”
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization edited by George Ritzer. Oxford, UK: Wiley-
Blackwell
Williford, Beth, Mangala Subramaniam, and David Whitlock. 2012. “Liberalization.” Wiley-
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization edited by George Ritzer. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
Ferree, Myra Marx and Mangala Subramaniam. 2001. “Activism” in International Encyclopedia of
Women. Routledge Press.
Subramaniam, Mangala. “Review Essays for the Reader’s Guide to the Social Sciences (‘Sociology’)
of Dearborn Publishers, London, 2001 (Essays on Gender & Social Relations, Feminist Organizations,
Patriarchy, Third World: Sociology).
Other Publications Subramaniam, Mangala. 2015. “Privilege and Advocacy: Case of HIV/AIDS.” Sanskriti (Indian
Women’s Association, West Lafayette). 20(2): 5-6
Subramaniam, Mangala, Manjusha Gupte and Debarashmi Mitra. 2007. “Local to Global:
Transnational Networks and Indian Women’s Grassroots Organizing,” SEVA-MANDIR Newsletter,
October-December. Reprinted from Mobilization, 8(2): 253-70.
Subramaniam, Mangala. “Experiences as a United Nations University/Institute of Advanced Studies
Ph.D. Fellow (1999-2000),” Sociologists for Women in Society Network News, XVII(3), Fall 2000:15-
16.
Subramaniam, Mangala. “The Self-Employed Women's Association, Ahmedabad, India.” Grassroots
Economic Organizing Newsletter Issue 32, June-July 1998.
Subramaniam, Mangala. “Cooperatives for Rural Development - the case of the dairy cooperatives in
India.” Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter Issue 31, Apr-May 1998.
Subramaniam, Mangala. “The Road to Sustainable Development-Some Aspects.” Indian Science
Congress Souvenir January 1992
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Grants
PI, Coping with Intimate Partner Violence: High Risk Groups and HIV Prevention in India. CLA
Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences grant, 2016. $25,000.
PI, Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Prevention among Women Sex Workers in India. CLA
Community Engagement grant, 2015-16. $5,000. Collaborator -Swasti (India).
Co-PI (with Co-PI, Jean Beaman). International Symposium - New Approaches to Citizenship and
Inequality: Gender, Race, and Rights. Global Synergy Research Grant from the President’s Office,
2015-16, ($ 25, 000)
Lead PI. Gender and Social Impacts of Institutional Arrangements for Improved Seed Technologies.
Purdue-Mellon Grand Challenge Exploratory Award, 2014-16 ($60,214)
[Co-PIs: Marianne Stowell Bracke, Mary Dugan; both Associate Professors of Library Science, Joan
R. Fulton, Professor and Associate Head, Department of Agricultural Economics, Dawn G. Marsh,
Associate Professor, Department of History, and Leigh S. Raymond, Professor, Department of
Political Science & Director, Center for the Environment (all Purdue University)]
PI. Academic Careers and Coping with Emotional Labor. CLA Research Initiative grant, 2014 ($1,700
– for transcription)
Co-PI (PI: Laurel Weldon). Diversity and Inclusion: Implications for Science and Society. Office of
OVPR, Purdue University, 2013 ($289,317) [Section: Social Movements]
PI. Purdue University Global Research Synergy Grant for Faculty for project “HIV/AIDS and the
Rights of Sex Workers,” 2013 ($ 11,220)
PI. [Bert Useem, Ellen Gruenbaum as Co-PIs]. Grant award for ‘Engaging India’ from Office of Vice
President for Engagement, Purdue University for symposium titled ‘State and Social Movements:
Violence, Health, Food Security’ at IIT, Madras, India, March 2013 ($12,090)
Subramaniam, Mangala and Chris Bunka. Policy Brief Incentive Award, Global Policy Research
Institute, Purdue University, 2012 ($4,000)
Co-PI (PI: Alan Rebar), Veterinary Medicine as a Model for Women’s Participation in Scientific
Careers, Purdue Discovery Park/SBB Seed Grant (Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership
Excellence), 2009 ($12,955.61) [Interdisciplinary project: CLA departments: Communication,
History, Sociology; School of Veterinary Medicine; Engineering Education]
Co-PI, Social Movements around Water, Collaborative Project funded by International Water
Management Institute (IWMI-TATA). Core Research Group: Purdue University, Representative of
IWMI-TATA, Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Madras
Institute of Development Studies, India. SOPPECOM is coordinating agency, January 2008 (Indian
Rupees 995,000 approximately).
Project related workshop: Leader, Methodology Workshop for Case Studies on Social Movements
around Water, July 6-7, 2008
PI, Globalization, Local Movement, and Transnational Networks (Co-PI: Beth Williford), NSF
Dissertation Grant, July 2007 ($7,500).
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PI, Gender and Socio-cultural Scripting: Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) and HIV/AIDS in
India, Kinley Trust Grant, Spring 2007 ($19,930).
PI, Social Movements and Water in India, Asian Initiative Research Grant, Purdue University, Spring
2007 ($9,000)
PI, American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Grants for Cutting Edge
Research and Research Activities: The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline award, Group
Effects on Poor Women’s Empowerment in Rural India, Fall 2004 ($3,080).
Co-investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, Nation, State, and Family:
Women’s Political Writings, (PIs: Hilda Smith, University of Cincinnati and Berenice Carroll, Purdue
University). Proposal is a collaborative project between Purdue University, University of Cincinnati,
and Xavier University (University of Cincinnati is lead institution), Fall 2004 ($74,756).
NEH Grant Related Workshops
This faculty development project designed to encourage and assist faculty to integrate the political
writings of women into their teaching and research involved two workshops listed below.
1. NEH Grant September Workshop, Sept 17-19, 2003 at the University of Cincinnati. Discussion of
selected women’s writings in the Early Modern, Early Nineteenth Century, and Nineteenth and early
Twentieth Century. Included considering expanding and including writings of women from around
the world in Spring workshop and some guest speakers as well.
2. NEH Grant September Workshop, May 20-22, 2004 at Purdue University. Discussion of selected
women’s writings in the Early Modern, Early Nineteenth Century, and Nineteenth and early Twentieth
Century. Included presentations by guest speakers and participants.
Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) Summer faculty grant, “Role of Civic Networks in the
Empowerment of Muslim Women in India,” March 2004, ($7,000).
SLA Discovery and Research Support ($1,800).
Purdue University International Programs Grant for exploring study abroad program in India (revised
version of IDIS 380 in Women’s Studies), 2003 ($5,500).
Purdue University, School of Liberal Arts (SLA) Dean’s Incentive Grant for proposal, “Identity and Interests: Emergence of caste interests in the Indian women’s movement” ($1,510).
Purdue University International Programs in Agriculture’s (IPIA) International Curriculum
Enhancement Grant for developing an undergraduate course, Global Social Movements (Course
approved Fall 2002), 2001 ($3,700).
Purdue University, School of Liberal Arts (SLA) Dean’s Incentive Grant for research assistance for
proposal ‘The Contemporary Indian Women’s Movement,’ 2001 ($750).
Purdue University Library Scholars grant, 2001-02 ($100).
Travel awards
Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) International travel grant, 2008 ($1,000)
Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) International Travel Grant, 2005 ($1,400).
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Purdue University International Travel Grant, 2003 ($1,300).
Travel Grant, American Sociological Association to attend International Sociological Association
meetings, 2002 ($700).
Purdue University International Travel grant to attend International Sociological Association
meetings, 2002 ($1,380).
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
Invited Presentations Gender and Social Impacts of Improved Seed Technologies. Update on Mellon grant project. Policies
for Progress Conference, Purdue University, October 2015
Presider, Regular Session. Violence in Less Frequently Studied Locations. Presider, ASA Annual
Meetings, Chicago, 2015
Gender, Leadership, and Community Organizations. Invited Panel on Gender, State Policy and
Community. Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, March 2015
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Purdue’s CLA Workshop, Fall 2014
Research presentation on gender and global issues. Visit of Christie Vilsack, Director, USAID,
Organized by Purdue’s Office of Global Affairs, April 17, 2014
Mitigating risks to HIV-AIDS: Notes from a study of female sex workers in India. Office of
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, Graduate School, Purdue University, December 2013
Chair, panel on Social Movements in the Global South. Pre-ASA Mini-conference, “Power and Justice
in the Contemporary World System” sponsored by ASA sections – CBSM, PEWS, Development,
Human Rights, New York, August 2013
The State, HIV/AIDS, and Rights: Addressing Stigma in India. National Law School of India,
Bangalore (India), March 2013
Integrating Gender and Sexuality in Information Dissemination about HIV/AIDS. CLA Center for
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fellowship presentation, April 2012
Discussant, Thematic Session: Gender and Security (Organizer: Myra Marx Ferree), ASA Annual
Meetings, Las Vegas, August 2011
Panel Speaker. Empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication,
development and current challenges. [In preparation for SWS statement to the United Nations
Commission on the Status of Women for its 2012 session which focuses on this topic.] Sociologists
for Women in Society (SWS), Las Vegas, August 2011
Speaker, Sister-to-Sister Panel. Concerns of Junior Faculty & Graduate Students. Sociologists for
Women in Society (SWS), Las Vegas, August 2011
State, Security, and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: Local and Transnational Discourse. Workshop
on New Perspectives on Gender and Human Security, University of Wisconsin–Madison, March 2010
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Reflections on the Indian Women’s Movement-tensions/collaborations between grassroots
mobilizations and larger advocacy/identity based networks. Fellows Workshop on Social Movements
and Workers Organizations, November 26- 28, 2007 organized by Samvada Youth Resource Centres
& Baduku College, Bangalore, India.
Implications of Oppositional Consciousness for Political-cultural Empowerment of Women in Rural
India. Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India, October 2007.
The Politics of Empowerment: Gender, Caste, and Class in India. Research Forum of the Department
of Humanities and Social Science, IIT, Chennai, India, October 2007.
Speaker, Panel on Challenges of Teaching, Researching and Publishing on Gender and
Sexuality from a Transnational Perspective. Caucus on Transnational Approaches to Gender and
Sexuality, American Sociological Association, New York, August 2007.
Presentation on FAD award project at ASA Workshop, Winning Small Grants for Cutting Edge
Research and Research Activities: The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, ASA Annual
Meetings, Montreal, August 2006.
Local Activism and Global Politics-The Case of the Indian Women’s Movement. Invited Speaker,
Thematic Session, Transnational Women’s Movements, ASA Annual Meetings, San Francisco,
August 2004.
Local to Global: Women’s NGOs and the State, Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality, Berlin,
Germany. Organized by Irmgard Coninx Stiftung Foundation through Social Science Research Center,
Berlin and Humboldt University, Berlin, January 2004.
Transnational women’s organizations and empowering poor women in rural India. Panel on
Implications of our scholarship for activism: Can we connect our studies and insights into how
grassroots mobilization and policy formation work to improve policy outcomes? Sociologists for
Women in Society meetings, Phoenix, Arizona, February 1-4, 2001.
Moving Women’s Rights to the Center by Organizing Local Challenges, Invited speaker, ‘Gender and
Women’s Rights,’ UN International Conference on ‘Global Ethos’ organized in connection with the UN
Day celebrations, Tokyo (Japan), October 24-26, 2000.
Mainstreaming Gender in Research and Capacity Building, Invited Keynote Speaker for Workshop on
‘Future Issues in Gender Education and Research,’ UNU, Tokyo (Japan), October 27, 2000.
UNU/IAS Ph.D. Fellows Inaugural Alumni Conference, Member of Science, Technology, and Society
Discussion Group, Tokyo (Japan), December 1999.
Social Empowerment through a Collective Process: Women of Mahila Samakhya Karnataka (India).
Invited speaker for “Women and Development” Series, 1999-2000, University of Connecticut,
February 2000
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Presentations and Participation at Conferences and Workshops
Gender Impacts of Institutional Arrangements for Improved Seed Technologies. Panel: Food system
governance: Institutional innovation. International Conference on Global Food Security, Cornell
University, October 2015 (with Preethi Krishnan and Leigh Raymond).
Domestic Violence and Intra-family Dynamics: Analysis of India’s Supreme Court Rulings. Regular
session “Sex and Violence.” ASA Annual Meetings, Chicago, 2015 (with Preethi Krishnan)
Safecity? Analysis of Services to Respond to Gender based Violence in Bengaluru, India. Regular
Session. Violence in Less Frequently Studied Locations. ASA Annual Meetings, Chicago, 2015 (with
Shaonli Chakraborty and Shiv Kumar)
Mainstreaming Gender, Endangered, Ungendered? Analysis of Media Reports of 2012 Case of Rape
in India. Race, Gender, Class -Section Session. ASA Annual Meetings, Chicago, 2015 [Per ASA
policy, could retain name only on two papers and so deleted name on this and two more papers.] (with
Soma Chaudhuri and Preethi Krishnan)
The Emotional Price of the Dress: Race and Class in Feeling Rules in Bridal Shops. Regular Session:
Sociology of Emotions. ASA Annual Meetings, Chicago, 2015 [Per ASA policy, could retain name
only on two papers and so deleted name on this and two more papers.] (with Lori Lundell)
I’m White and I’m a Lady: Experiences with U.S. Visas for Higher Education. Refereed Roundtable:
Table 15. Immigration Policies and Practices (Section on International Migration). ASA Annual
Meetings, Chicago, 2015 [Per ASA policy, could retain name only on two papers and so deleted name
on this and two more papers.] (with Jenean Cox)
Community Organizing and Prevention of HIV/AIDS: Challenges and Opportunities. International
Conference – Gandhi, Gram Swaraj, and Decentralisation – Kerala Institute of Local Administration,
Thrissur (India), 27-29 November 2014
Gender-Blind and Pro-Gender Judgments: Domestic Violence Cases and India’s Supreme Court. ASA
Annual Meetings, San Francisco, 2014. (with Preethi Krishnan)
Academic Social Closure: Publication Patterns in Two Sociology Flagship Journals, 1960-2010. ASA
Annual Meetings, San Francisco, 2014 (with Robert Perrucci and Carolyn Perrucci)
Women Sociologists as Editors and Authors in Two Leading Sociology Journals: 1960 – 2010. ASA
Annual Meetings, San Francisco, 2014 (with Robert Perrucci and Carolyn Perrucci)
“Editors, Authors, and Social Closure in Four Leading Sociology Journals, 1960-2010: The Role of
Discipline Demographics and Journal Mission.” ASA Annual Meetings, San Francisco, 2014 (with
Robert Perrucci and Carolyn Perrucci)
“Doing” Research - Female Sex Workers and HIV/AIDS: Notes from an Exploratory Qualitative
Study in India. Health and Disease: Science, Culture and Policy. Research Poster Session, Purdue
University, March 2014. (with Preethi Krishnan)
Local Struggles for Rights and Justice. Pre-ASA Mini-conference, “Power and Justice in the
Contemporary World System” sponsored by ASA sections – CBSM, PEWS, Development, Human
Rights, New York, August 2013
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Globalization and State Power: India and “BRICS”. Regular Session: World-Systems, ASA Annual
Meetings, New York, August 2013 (with Christopher Bunka)
Big Science and Social Closure: Publication Patterns in a Sociology Flagship Journal, 1960-2010.
Sociology of Education Roundtables, ASA Annual Meetings, New York, August 2013 (with Robert
Perrucci and Carolyn Perrucci)
Re-examining World-Systems Theory Using the Case of BRICS. Symposium, State and Social
Movements, Chennai (India), March 2013 (with Christopher Bunka)
Relational Fields and Social Movements: The Case of the Anti-Corruption Movement in India.
Symposium, State and Social Movements, Chennai (India), March 2013 (with Bert Useem)
State Power as Security and Capitalist. ASA Annual Meetings, Las Vegas, August 2011 (with
Christopher Bunka and David Whitlock)
The Medicalization of HIV/AIDS in India: Framing information by the State and NGOs. International
workshop ‘Protecting the Health of the Poor: Social Movements in the South’ organized by a
consortium through The Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) [Note: Could not
attend because of family emergency.]
Gender and HIV/AIDS: Policy Initiatives of India and the UN. Panel titled: Women’s health and
health risks in an unequal world. ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010
(accepted but did not attend)
Gender, HIV/AIDS, and State Policy in India. Regular Session: Social Dimension of AIDS. ASA
Annual Meetings, Atlanta, August 2010
Social Meaning of Retail Spaces: Gender, Race and Class. SSSP Annual Meetings, Atlanta, August
2010 (with Lori Lundell)
Native Language Retention among Asian Americans. Regular Session: Immigrant
Communities/Families, ASA Annual Meetings, Atlanta, August 2010 (with Shalini Choudhury)
‘The forest is like a mother’: Framing at the Local and Transnational Levels of the Amazonian
Indigenous Movement in Ecuador. Collective Behavior and Social Movements Roundtables, ASA
Annual Meetings, Atlanta, August 2010 (with Beth Williford)
“Ini oru vidhi seivom (Lets make a new beginning) – Lets make it right!” Framing Information about
HIV/AIDS in India. Panel titled: Meanings & Politics of HIV/AIDS, Sociologists’ AIDS Network
(SAN) Conference, San Francisco, August 2009
Globalization, State, and Community Resistances: Water Rights in India, Panel on Impact of
Globalization on Communities in Less Developed and Developed Nations, SSSP Annual Meetings,
San Francisco, August 2009 (with Jaclyn Tabor and Christopher Malackany)
Persuading Behavior Change: Current trends in the Discourse on HIV/AIDS in India, Panel on Social
Movements: Visions, Persuasion, and Power (session of Futures Research & Social Movements,
Collective Action and Social Change), First International Sociological Association Forum of
Sociology, Barcelona (Spain), September 2008
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Women and Religious Nationalism: Framing Women’s Rights in the Religious Based Violence in
Gujarat, India, Global Studies Association Annual Meetings, New York, June 2008.
Gender and HIV/AIDS in India: Implications for Future Research. Section on Medical Sociology
Paper Session, International Issues in HIV/AIDS, ASA Annual Meetings, Montreal, August 2006.
Between the Local and Global: Framing of Women’s Rights in the Religious Based Violence in
Gujarat, India. Third General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research in
Budapest, Hungary, September 2005.
Group Participation and Women’s Perceived Autonomy. Regular Session on Gender, ASA Annual
Meetings, Philadelphia, August 2005. (with Dina Banerjee)
Bangladeshi Writer, Taslima Nasrin’s book, Lajja (meaning ‘shame). NEH Grant related Workshop,
Purdue University, May 2005.
Power and Sexual Harassment: Experiences of Graduate Teaching Assistants. Purdue University’s
Women’s Studies Brown Bag Series, September, 2004. (with Sandy Ertel)
Creating Contentious Spaces: Women in Rural India. 32nd Annual Conference on South Asia,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2003.
Gender, Identity, and Empowerment: The Significance of the Collective. Sixth International
Conference on Dowry, Bride-burning and Son Preference, New Delhi, India, January 2003.
AAROHAN: South Asian Women Rise Up Against Violence. First conference on Domestic Violence
in Ethnic Asian Communities sponsored by the US Department of Justice, New Jersey, October 2002.
Organizing across the Local, National, and International Level by Creating Transnational Spaces.
Evidence from India. Regular Session, Transnational Movements, ASA Annual Meetings, Chicago,
August 2002. (with Manjusha Gupte and Debarashmi Mitra)
Women’s Organizing, Knowledge, and Social Change in the Globalizing World. Paper Session,
Globalization, Gender, and Social Change. International Sociological Association Research
Committee (RC 32) on Women and Society, XV International Sociological Association World
Congress of Sociology Brisbane, Australia, July, 2002. (with Bandana Purkayastha)
Women in the Public Sphere: Conflict and Negotiation in India. Paper Session, Peace in the new
millennium: lessons from the 20th century. International Sociological Association Research
Committee (RC 01) on Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution, XV International Sociological
Association World Congress of Sociology Brisbane, Australia, July, 2002. (with Bandana
Purkayastha)
Emerging Trends in the Indian Women’s Movement: Class and Caste Dynamics. Women’s Studies
Brown Bag Series, Purdue University, March 2002.
Participating in Informal Groups for Social Empowerment. Evidence from Rural India. 30th Annual
Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2001.
Collective Action for Women's Empowerment. Evidence from Rural India. Seminar in the
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2001.
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Globalization, the State and Women’s Rights in India. Globalization Forum, Purdue University,
October 2001.
Informal Groups in Civil Society in the Developing Country Context: Evidence from Rural India and
Ghana. Section on Political Sociology Paper Session, Civil Society, ASA Annual Meetings, August
2001.
Organizing for Social Empowerment: Empirical Evidence from Rural India. Regular Session on
Sociology of Gender, ASA Annual Meetings, August 2001.
Collective Effort for Women’s Empowerment: A Literacy Initiative for Rural Women. International
Symposium, The Political, Social, and Economic Impact of Education on Women and Girls. American
Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation, Washington, D.C., November 17-
18, 2000.
State Interventions: Social Processes in Local Challenges. Workshop on State and Society: Partnership in
Poverty Reduction, Center for Comparative Research on Poverty Programme (Norway), Accra, Ghana,
October 2000.
The Significance of Group Structure in Building Capabilities for ‘Social’ Empowerment: The Case of
MSK (India). Section on Race, Gender, and Class Paper Session, Scholarship - Interdisciplinary and
Global Perspectives, ASA Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., August 2000.
The Dynamics of Caste and Gender: The Devadasi System. Special Roundtable Session of award
winning papers. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C.,
August 2000.
The Local-Global Interface in the Case of Mahila Samakhya Karnataka (India). Seminar Series of
Institute of Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo (Japan), January 2000.
Citizenship and Women's Empowerment: 'Quotas' and 'Voices' in the Rural Indian Context. UNU/IAS
Seminar Series, Tokyo (Japan), January 2000.
Social Empowerment of Women in Rural India. UNU/IAS Seminar Series, August 1999.
The Role of Collectives in Women’s ‘Education’ – the Mahila Samakhya Karnataka (India)
experience. Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meetings, August 1999.
‘Nested’ Structures in SMOs as Facilitating Participation - The case of SEWA, Ahmedabad (India).
ASA Annual Meetings August 1998.
Framing & Opportunity Structures - The Role of the State. Eastern Sociological Society Annual
Meetings, August 1998.
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TEACHING
Courses taught
In Sociology Graduate level
Introduction to Research Methods I (required graduate methods)
Sociology of Gender - Seminar
Readings in Political Sociology: Social Movements - Seminar
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Independent Studies supervised (topics): Media Coverage of Protest; Immigration and Social
Movements, Global Political Economy: Sociological Perspectives; Feminist Theory and
Methodology; Readings in Political Sociology; Race & Ethnicity; Black Feminist Thought;
Transnational Movements; Feminist Movements; Gender & Work
Undergraduate level
Global Social Movements – Honors only; Honors College (Spring 2016)
Gender Roles in Modern Society
Introduction to Methods of Social Research I (Statistics)
Global Social Movements (Honors section in 2007, 2008)
Independent Study (SOC 390)
Independent Study (SOC 390)
Contributions to course and curriculum development
New course
Course, Global Social Movements (International Programs in Agriculture grant received in November
2001). Approved as School of Liberal Arts Core Course in Fall 2002.
Study Abroad
Purdue’s International Programs Grant to set up a Study Abroad Program for undergraduate and graduate
students in Sociology and Women’s Studies.
MENTORING
Graduate Student Committees (current)
Major Professor (Sociology)
MS Students: Ellen Rochford
PhD Students: Christopher Bunka (ABD); Lori Lundell (ABD), Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy;
Jenean Cox
Committee Member
Sociology: Andrew Raridon (PhD); Soon seok Park (PhD)
Other departments/programs: Bruce Biggs (OLS, ABD); Kristin Villa, Pragya Mishra (both
Pharmacy Practice)
Undergraduate - Honors Sociology Honors: Rachel E. Lundstrom; Wynne R. Lucas
Completed Analytical Projects/Masters' Thesis/Dissertation
As Chair/Co-Chair of Committee
Jenean Cox (SOC/AMST), MS (defended April 2014)
Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy, MS (defended April 2013)
Soon seok Park MS (defended April 2013)
David Whitlock, MS (defended April 2011)
Lori Lundell, MS (defended April 2010)
Shalini Choudhury, MS (defended October 2009)
Beth Williford, PhD (defended August 2009)
Christopher Malackany, MS (defended April 2009)
Kirstin Eismin, MS, American Studies & Women’s Studies (defended May 2007)
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Dina Banerjee, MS (defended May 2004)
Purba Das, MS (defended December 2002)
Member, PhD Dissertation Committee
Jigar Rajpura, Pharmacy Practice (defended October 2015)
Jyothi Menon, Pharmacy Practice (defended July 2015)
Leamaster, Reid J., Sociology (defended July 2014)
Bhardwaj, Anjali, Anthropology (defended November 2013)
Steinhour, Michael, Sociology (defended November 2013)
Zhilin Tang, Sociology (defended November 2011)
Dan Weiss, Sociology (defended May 2011)
Hira Bhattacharyya, History (defended April 2010)
Gregory Gibson, Sociology (defended April 2008).
Karen Remedois, English (defended June 2007).
Joshua Frye, Communication (defended May 2007).
Tariqah Nuriddin, Sociology (defended April 2007).
Tara Kent, Sociology (defended April 2002).
Member, Masters Committee
Mishra, Pragya, Pharmacy Practice (defended November 2014)
Villa, Kristin, Pharmacy Practice (defended October 2014)
Harris, Emily, Sociology (defended April 2014)
Jyothi Menon, Pharmacy Practice (defended April 2011)
Sandy E. Koh, Sociology (defended May 2009)
Karen Hustedt, Sociology (defended May 2007)
Omolola A. Adedokun, Sociology and Education (defended April 2007)
Tauna Starbuck Sisco, Sociology (defended April 2005).
Beth Williford, Sociology (defended Fall 2004)
Elizabeth Sternke, Anthropology (defended January 2003).
Er Zhang, Sociology (defended May 2002).
Graduate Students Supported on Grants
01/15-12/15 Preethi Krishnan, RA, Gender and Social Impacts of Institutional Arrangements for
Improved Seed Technologies (Purdue-Mellon grant)
Summer & Fall 2015 Jenean Cox, RA. International Symposium - New Approaches to Citizenship and
Inequality: Gender, Race, and Rights (GSR grant)
Summer & Fall 2015 Andrew Raridon, RA, Gender and Social Impacts of Institutional Arrangements for
Improved Seed Technologies (Purdue-Mellon grant)
Spring 2015 Jared Wright, RA, Transnational Water Forums (Diversity and Inclusion:
Implications for Science and Society grant)
2014-15 Purdue Research Foundation Research Grant for proposal entitled, Globalization
and State: Factors Contributing to the Contemporary Food Security Crisis, to
support Chris Bunka.
Summer 2013 Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy, RA, HIV/AIDS and Rights of Sex Workers (GSR
grant)
Spring 2013 Christopher Bunka and Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy, Participants, ‘Engaging
India’ from Office of Vice President for Engagement, Purdue University for
symposium titled ‘State and Social Movements: Violence, Health, Food Security’
at IIT, Madras, India, March 2013
Fall 2012 & Christopher Bunka, Student Assistant, Engaging India grant award
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Spring 2013
Spring 2010 & Shalini Choudhury, RA, Project, Veterinary Medicine as a Model for Women’s
Summer 2010 Participation in Scientific Careers. Purdue Discovery Park/SBB Seed Grant (Susan
Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence)
Summer 2008 Michaela Null, Beth Williford, Sociology, Supported on Kinley Trust grant
Summer 2005 Dina Banerjee, Sociology. Supported on American Sociological
Association/National Science Foundation Small Grants for Cutting Edge
Research and Research Activities: The Fund for the Advancement of the
Discipline award
Spring 2005 Beth Williford, Sociology. Supported on American Sociological
Association/National Science Foundation Small Grants for Cutting Edge
Research and Research Activities: The Fund for the Advancement of the
Discipline award
Spring 2002 Paul Chamness Miller, Foreign Languages and Literature. Supported on
International Programs in Agriculture’s (IPIA) International Curriculum
Enhancement Grant (for expertise in web related work)
Fall 2001 Anindita Sen, Krannert School of Management. Supported on College of Liberal
Arts Dean’s Incentive grant
Undergraduate Students Supported on Grants
Fall 2014 Rachel E. Lundstrom, Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research Internship
09/2014-05/2015 Rachel E. Lundstrom, Undergraduate RA, Gender and Social Impacts of
Institutional Arrangements for Improved Seed Technologies
Fall 2007 Jaclyn Tabor, Sociology (Honors) for visit to India in December 2007 to participate
in project, Social Movements and Water in Rural India. Supported through the
Asian Initiative Research grant, Purdue University
Purdue University Discovery Park Undergraduate Research Initiative Scholarship Spring &
Fall 2008 Jaclyn Tabor for ‘State, Social Movements and Water in India.’
Fall 2007 Jaclyn Tabor for ‘Outsourcing of Jobs in the IT Industry: The Role of the Indian
State.’
Spring 2007 Gladys Pan for ‘Outsourcing and Transnational Movement of Jobs: The IT
Industry in India and the US.’ Jaclyn Tabor for ‘Social Movements and Water in
Rural India.’
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & ENGAGEMENT
International
2008- 2010 Member, Advisory Board, Irmgard Coninx Stiftung Foundation, Berlin, Germany
2001-2004 Member, International Team of Experts for Poverty Alleviation, United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva
Extra-University
2015-16 Organizer (with Preethi Krishnan and Agatha Eguavoen) Gender, Law and the
Courts: Local and Global Struggles against Violence; Women in Society section
at Third ISA Forum of Sociology (July 10-14, 2016), Vienna.
2014 Organizer (with Chaitanya Lakkimsetti), “Gender and Sexual Politics: The States
of Neoliberalism,” Sex & Gender section session, ASA Annual Meetings, San
Francisco, August 2014.
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2009 Organizer (with Beth Williford), “Race, Space, and Inequality: Nation, Migration
and Ethnic Boundaries,” Race, Gender and Class section session, ASA Annual
Meetings, San Francisco, August 2009.
2008 Organizer, Sex & Gender section session: War Empire, Gender, and Labor, ASA
Annual Meetings, Boston.
2006 Organizer and Presider, Regular Session: Global South, ASA Annual Meetings,
Montreal (on invitation from the ASA President).
2005-2006 Chair-elect, Lee Scholar-Activist Support Fund, Society for the Study of Social
Problems (on invitation from the President, Society for the Study of Social
Problems).
2003 Organizer and Presider, Regular Session, Perspectives on Citizenship, ASA Annual
Meetings 2003, Atlanta.
2002 Organizer (with Rachel Sullivan), Paper Session: Gender and Race: Cross-
cultural Perspectives. North Central Sociological Association Meetings.
2002 Chair, Panel on International Women’s Movements, Women’s Studies Conference,
Purdue University.
2001 Proposal for SWS for development of network program for international members
in effort to integrate international scholarship in doing sociology in the U.S.
(Coordinator with Bandana Purkayastha).
University/Department (Sociology & Anthropology + Women’s Studies) 2015-16 Member, College of Liberal Arts Cluster Hire in Methods (Quant & Qual)
2015-16 Member, Department Faculty Search Committee (Head’s appointee)
2015-16 Member, Department Fellowship Committee
2015-16 Member, Advisory Board, CLA’s Global Studies Major
Spring 2015 Expert Judge, World Food Prize Youth Institute at Purdue University
(participants from all of Indiana)
2013- Purdue Policy Network Committee (Global Policy Research Institute) [earlier
called Purdue’s Think Policy Initiative]
2012-13 Member, Global Policy Research Institute Academy Committee, Purdue
University
2013-16 Member, Center for Social Sciences Fellowship Selection Committee, CLA
2011-2014 Member, University Academic Progress & Records Committee
2012-14 Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Research on Diversity and
Inclusion, CLA
2013-14 Member, Organizing Committee, Symposium on ‘Environmental Justice’-Spring
2014
2011-2012 Chair, CLA Diversity Action Committee (Advisory Committee to Dean)
2010-2013 Member, CLA Diversity Action Committee (Advisory Committee to Dean)
2009-2010 Member, Faculty Advisory Board, CLA Engagement Office
2009-2010 Member, Sociology Graduate Studies Committee
2009-2010 Member, Sociology Fellowship Committee
2009-2010 Faculty Adviser, Support Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
(Support RAWA), Purdue Student Organization
January 2009 Facilitator and Participant, Searching for Excellence and Diversity: A Workshop
for Search Committee Chairs and Members, Presented by WISELI under Purdue’s
ADVANCE grant
2008-2009 Member, Sociology Head Search Committee
Fall 2003 - Member, Grievance Committee, College of Liberal Arts
Fall 2008 - Member, Educational Policy Committee, College of Liberal Arts
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2007 - 2008 Faculty Adviser, America-India Foundation (AIF) Purdue Student Chapter,
Purdue University
Fall 2005 Member, University-wide panel chaired by Purdue’s University Associate Vice-
President for Research and Indiana University Vice Provost for Research for
collaborative CLSIR grants (each grant up to US $ 60,000)
2004 - 2005 Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Department of Sociology &
Anthropology
2004 - 2006 Member, Women’s Studies Advisory Board
2004-2007 Faculty Adviser, Drishti (South Asia Student Organization, College of Liberal
Arts, Purdue University)
2005 Faculty Adviser, Drishti’s Tsunami fund raiser event, Purdue University
Fall 2006, 2008-09 Member, Website Committee, Sociology & Anthropology
Fall 2002, 2003-05,
Spring 2006 Member, Curriculum Committee, Sociology
2004-2006 Member, Women’s Studies Advisory Board
Fall 2002 Chair, Sub-Committee for recommending events for Women’s Studies in 2003
2001-02 Member, Colloquium Committee, Sociology
2001-02 Member, Women's Studies Committee, Women’s Studies
Fall 2001 Panel member for pro seminar on Job Search, Sociology
Visiting Scholar
Spring 2002 Advisor for Visiting Scholar from Tajikistan, Mukhabbat Beknazarova, affiliated
to Women’s Studies, Purdue University
Occasional Reviewer (in 2014-15): AJS, Current Sociology, JWSR, PLOS ONE, Sociology Compass
Faculty Mentoring
Spring 2015- Christie Sennott, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Community Service Activities
“Applying for Graduate Studies,” AKD, Sociology, October 2013
“Marriage in India,” Tippecanoe County Public Library, February 16, 2011 (Invited)
“Family Marriage and Motherhood (1)” Soc 450: Gender Roles in Modern Society; One of three courses
featured in “Intersections” – A Student Conference on Diversity, Diversity Resources Office of Purdue
University, February 17-20, 2010
“Socio-cultural Scripting and HIV/AIDS in India,” Unitarian-Universalist Forum, West Lafayette,
November 2008 (Invited)
Opening Remarks & moderator of discussion at screening of award winning documentary, Born into
Brothels, organized by Purdue Student Union Board (PSUB), October 2006 (Invited)
“Collective Resistances for Social Change: Women in India,” Unitarian-Universalist Forum, West
Lafayette, September 2006 (Invited)
“Women’s Rights as Human Rights,” Human Rights Day organized by the Bahai of Greater Lafayette,
December 2004 (Invited)
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Professional Association Memberships
American Sociological Association; Global Studies Association; International Sociological Association;
Society for the Study of Social Problems; Sociologists’ AIDS Network; Sociologists for Women in Society