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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