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MANGALA SUBRAMANIAM 10/18

Professor, Department of Sociology

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (USA)

Email: mangala@purdue.edu

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, caste, and race), Social Movements, Environmental Justice

(Water), Politics of HIV Prevention (focus on women in sex work and transgender people), Higher

Education, Globalization, Research Methods, South Asia, specifically India.

APPOINTMENTS

Administrative

2017- Chair & Director, Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence,

Office of Provost, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Responsibilities include managing (including the budget) and directing the Butler

Center.

2011-2015 Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Academic

2017- Professor, Sociology & Courtesy Appointment in Anthropology, Purdue University,

West Lafayette

Affiliated faculty: Global Studies; Purdue Policy Research Institute; Women’s,

Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2007- 2017 Associate Professor, Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette

2006-2007 Assistant Professor, Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette

2001-2006 Assistant Professor, Sociology & Women's Studies, Purdue University, West

Lafayette.

1999-2000 Affiliated with Institute of Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo,

Japan. Ph.D. Fellow, United Nations University/Institute of Advanced Studies

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FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS

2017 Salute to Women Honoree, Woman of Distinction, YWCA, Greater Lafayette area, IN

2017-18 College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Faculty Fellow. Project: Institutional Mechanisms for

Breaking the ‘Glass Ceiling’: Gender, Race and Mid-Career Faculty.

2017 (Spring) Fellow, Purdue Policy Research Institute, Purdue Discovery Park. Project: Intimate

Partner Violence and Risks to HIV: Using Empirical Evidence for Policy Making

2016 (Fall) Fellow, Center for Behavioral and Social Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue.

Project: Effects of Participation in Community Organizations of High Risk Groups on

Mitigating Risks to HIV.

2015-16 Purdue University nominee, 2016 YWCA Salute to Women award.

2015 Center for Research on Diversity & Inclusion (CRDI), College of Liberal Arts, Purdue.

Excellence in Research Award for paper: Krishnan, Preethi and Mangala Subramaniam.

Dowry, Domestic Violence and Gender: Legal interpretations by India’s Supreme Court.

2011 Fellow, Center for Behavioral and Social Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue, for

Spring 2011. Project: Integrative Theoretical Model for Analyzing HIV/AIDS Prevention

Strategies.

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2010 College of Liberal Arts Departmental Educational Excellence Award, College of Liberal

Arts, Purdue

2006 Faculty Recognition for Graduate Teaching and Mentoring, Graduate Student

Organization, American Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue

2003 Daryl B. Evans Award for Teaching Excellence, Department of Sociology, Purdue

2001 Ronald L. Taylor award for best graduate student paper: ‘Organizing' Groups:

Participation and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from Rural India,’ Department of

Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs

2001 Outstanding Graduate Student award, Department of Sociology, University of

Connecticut, Storrs

2001 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

2000 Honorable mention award, Graduate Student Paper Competition. Conflict,

Action, and Social Change Division, 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, University of Connecticut, Storrs for The

Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) summer workshop

on Hierarchical Linear Modeling

1999 Certificate of Honorable Mention, Dissertation Proposal, Rose Laub Coser Award,

Eastern Sociological Society ______________________________________________________________________________________

RESEARCH

Books

Subramaniam, Mangala. 2018. Contesting Water Rights: Local, State, and Global Struggles. NY:

Palgrave Macmillan (imprint of Springer International Publishing), 178 pages.

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 Books 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 (graduate student co-authors are in bold) Palmer, Zachary D. and Mangala Subramaniam. “Abstract Egalitarianism and Men as Victims:

Strategic Choice of Frames by Men’s Rights Organizations.” International Social Science Journal,

online first Aug 8, 2018.

Robert Perrucci, Carolyn Cummings Perrucci, and Mangala Subramaniam. 2017. “From Little Science

to Big Science: Were Women and Non-Elites Left Out?” Archives of Psychology 1(1): 1-5.

http://www.archivesofpsychology.org/index.php/aop

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Perrucci, Robert, Carolyn Cummings Perrucci, and Mangala Subramaniam. “Publications in Four

Sociology Journals, 1960-2010: The Role of Discipline Demographics and Journal Mission.”

Sociological Focus, forthcoming

Chakraborty, Shaonli, Shiv Kumar, Mangala Subramaniam (equal authors). 2017. “Safe city: Analysis

of services for gender-based violence in Bengaluru, India.” International Sociology 32(3): 299-322

(First online March 18, 2017).

Young Lisa J. and Mangala Subramaniam. 2017. “Eco-critical Consciousness Meets Oppositional

Consciousness: Reading Early Chicago Housing Activism Through an Environmental Lens.”

Sociological Focus 50(2):198-212 (First online December 27, 2016).

Subramaniam, Mangala and Preethi Krishnan. 2016. “Stranded between the Law, Family, and

Society: Women in Domestic Violence and Rulings of India’s Supreme Court.” Current Sociology

64(4): 603-619.

Leamaster, Reid J. and Mangala Subramaniam. 2016. “Career and/or Motherhood? Gender and the

LDS Church.” Sociological Perspectives 59(4): 776–797 (Advance online October 5, 2015).

Subramaniam, Mangala and Laura Zanotti. 2015. “Introductory Essay: Environmental Justice-Just

Livelihoods.” Politics, Groups, Identities 3(4): 649-654.

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.

Krishnan, Preethi and Mangala Subramaniam. 2015. “Understanding the State: Right to Food

Campaign in India.” The Global South 8(2): 101-118.

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 (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 (advance online December 21, 2012).

Subramaniam, Mangala and Beth Williford. 2012. “Contesting Water Rights: Collective Ownership

& Struggles against Privatization.” Sociology Compass 6(5): 413-24.

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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.

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 Wood-fired Cooking Stoves: Where is the Woman?”

Economic & Political Weekly XXIX (20): 1176-1183.

Non-refereed articles/essays

Subramaniam, Mangala. 2015 “Introduction: States and Social Movements in the Modern World-

System.” Journal of World Systems Research ((American Sociological Association’s Political Economy

of the World System section journal), 21(1): 1-7.

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, States and Social Movements in the Modern World-

System. 2015. Journal of World Systems Research (American Sociological Association’s Political

Economy of the World System section journal), 21(1). [Entire review process handled.]

Subramaniam, Mangala and Laura Zanotti. 2015. Co-Editors, Dialogues section, Politics, Groups,

Identities, 3(4). [Review process handled by journal editors.]

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Subramaniam, Mangala, Organizer, Symposium - Bridging Scholarship: The Indian Women’s

Movement. Contemporary Sociology, November 2004, 33(6): 635-39.

Policy Briefs

Krishnan, Preethi, Andrew Raridon, Leigh Raymond, & Mangala Subramaniam. Review of the

Gender and Social Impacts of Improved Seed Technology in Developing Countries: Policy

Implications. Policy Brief, Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI). [Required for the Mellon grant]

(Authors listed in alphabetical order). Link available at

http://purdueppri.tumblr.com/post/151014792485/gender-and-social-dimensions-of-improved-seed

Krishnan, Preethi, Andrew Raridon, Leigh Raymond, & Mangala Subramaniam. Intellectual

Property Arrangements for New Seed Technologies: The Struggle to Balance Farmers and Breeders

Rights. Policy Brief, Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI). [Required for the Mellon grant]

(Authors listed in alphabetical order). Link available at

http://purdueppri.tumblr.com/post/151014792485/gender-and-social-dimensions-of-improved-seed

Subramaniam, Mangala and Bunka, Christopher. 2013. “Food Security and State: Policy

Considerations for the Contemporary Food Crisis," Global Policy Research Institute (GPRI) Policy

Briefs: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 7. Available at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/gpripb/vol1/iss1/7

(See related grant from Global Policy Research Institute listed below.).

[598 downloads since 06/18/2013. One of top five downloaded briefs as based on the average number

of full-text downloads per day since the paper was posted. Updated as of 09/05/15. See

http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/gpripb/topdownloads.html]

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

Soma Chaudhuri, Preethi Krishnan, & Mangala Subramaniam (equal authors). “Mainstreaming

Gender, Endangered, Ungendered? Analysis of Media Reports of 2012 Case of Rape in India.” Advances

in Gender Research forthcoming

Subramaniam, Mangala and Preethi Krishnan. “Intersections of Gender, Caste, and Class: Agenda

Building in the Indian Women’s Movement.” In Anthology on Women’s and Gender Studies in India

edited by Anu Aneja. Taylor & Francis. Forthcoming.

Subramaniam, Mangala, Zachary D. Palmer, and Vasundhara Kaul. 2018. “Sex Workers and

Coping with Violence: Implications for Policy-Making.” Pp. 105-111 in Global Agenda for Social

Justice edited by Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, Michelle Christian, Brian V. Klocke, Robert

Perrucci & Jon Shefner. Bristol, UK: Policy Press

Perrucci, Robert, Mangala Subramaniam, and Carolyn C. Perrucci. 2016. “Who Publishes in Leading

Sociology Journals, 1965-2010?” Pp 77-86 in What to Expect and How to Respond: Distress and

Success in Academia edited by Earl Wright II and Thomas Calhoun. MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

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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.

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.

Grants

Co-PIs (with Christie Sennott). From Mother to Daughter: HIV Risk and Knowledge Transmission

about Sexual and Reproductive Health in India and South Africa. College of Liberal Arts Global

Research Synergy grant, 2017 ($18,188).

ASPIRE award, Office of Dean of CLA. To present a paper at the workshop at University of Oxford

(UK), September 2016 ($2,380).

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PI, Coping with Intimate Partner Violence: High Risk Groups and HIV Prevention in India. Purdue

College of Liberal Arts Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences grant, 2016. ($25,000).

Co-PI, (PI: Zhao Ma), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Seed Technology, College of Agriculture,

2016. ($33,343).

PI, Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Prevention among Women Sex Workers in India. Purdue

College of Liberal Arts Community Engagement grant, 2015-16. ($5,000). Collaborator -Swasti

(India).

Co-PI (with Jean Beaman). International Symposium - New Approaches to Citizenship and

Inequality: Gender, Race, and Rights. Purdue College of Liberal Arts Global Synergy Research Grant

from the President’s Office, 2015-16, ($25, 000).

Purdue College of Liberal Arts INNOVATE Grant (with Ken Ferraro, Rachel Einwohner, Scott Feld,

and Christie Sennott). Research Internship in Sociology 2015-16 ($10,000).

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 College of Liberal Arts Global Research Synergy Grant for Faculty for project “HIV/AIDS

and the Rights of Sex Workers,” 2013 ($ 11,220).

PI. 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).

[Co-PIs: Bert Useem, Ellen Gruenbaum (all Purdue University)]

Policy Brief Incentive Award, Global Policy Research Institute, Purdue University, 2012 ($4,000)

[with Christopher Bunka].

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).

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Project related workshop: Leader, Methodology Workshop for Case Studies on Social Movements

around Water, July 6-7, 2008.

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).

Purdue School of Liberal Arts 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 Response to Invited Lecture ‘Exploring and Educating About the Evolution of Human Physical

Diversity’ by Dr. Nina Jablonski. Anthropology 10th Anniversary Event, October 2018

About the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. Purdue University Senate,

September 2018

Contesting Water Rights: Local, State, and Global Struggles. Institute of Rural Management, Anand

(India), December 2017.

CLA Senate presentation. Project Overview- Institutional Mechanisms for Breaking the ‘Glass

Ceiling’: Gender, Race and Mid-Career Faculty. February 2017.

What is new about being an associate professor? Orientation for recently tenured and promoted

associates. Office of the Provost, Purdue University, September 12, 2017.

Studying Marginalized Populations. Lunch and Learn series of Asian American and Asian Resource

and Cultural Center, Purdue University, September 28, 2017.

Improved Seed Technologies: Experiences from a Mellon Grant Project. Grand Challenges

Conference, Purdue University, September 2016.

Panel: Working toward Success and Managing Failure. 7th Annual Conference for Pre-Tenure

Women. Purdue University, Organized by Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence,

September 2016.

Presider, Regular Session – Social Movements: Infrastructures of Social Movements. Organizer, Paul

Almeida. ASA Annual Meetings, Seattle, August 2016.

Feminist leadership in community settings. Panel on Feminist Leadership: Individual Strategies and

Structural Change (sponsored by Sociologists for Women in Society - South). Southern Sociological

Association meetings, April 2016.

Gender and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Perspective from India. HIV/AIDS Awareness Week sponsored by

Asian and Asian American Studies Center & LGBTQ Center, Purdue University, November 2015.

Gender and Social Impacts of Improved Seed Technologies. Update on Mellon grant project. Policies

for Progress, Purdue University, October 2015.

Presider, Regular Session. Violence in Less Frequently Studied Locations. Presider, ASA Annual

Meetings, Chicago, 2015.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts Workshop, Fall 2014

& Fall 2015.

Research presentation on gender and global issues. Visit of Christie Vilsack, Director, USAID.

Organized by Purdue’s Office of Global Affairs, April 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. 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.

Integrating gender and sexuality in information dissemination about HIV/AIDS. CLA Center for

Behavioral and Social Sciences, Spring 2012.

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.

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.

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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. Panel on Gender and Women’s

Rights. Global Ethos, United Nations International Conference organized in connection with United

Nations Day celebrations, Tokyo (Japan), October 24-26, 2000.

Mainstreaming Gender in Research and Capacity Building. Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Future

Issues in Gender Education and Research, United Nations University, 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).

“Women and Development” Series, 1999-2000, University of Connecticut, February 2000

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops [Only after 2002 are listed]

Inequities in Water Policies: Cases of India and South Africa. Global Water Security for Agriculture

and Natural Resources: An ASABE Global Initiative Conference, Hyderabad, India, October 2018

(with Rachel Scarlett, Becca Nixon, and Dulcy Abraham)

Developing Valid and Reliable Measures for ‘Climate’ in a University Setting. ASA Annual Meetings,

Philadelphia, August 2018 (with Zachary D. Palmer).

with Violence: Women in Sex Work and Transgender People in Karnataka, India. Paper presented at

XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Ontario, July 2018 (with Zachary D. Palmer and

Vasundhara Kaul).

Demanding Rights: Practices in Community Organizations of Women in Sex Work. Distributed paper

at the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Ontario, July 2018 (with Zachary D. Palmer).

Food, Water, and Social Justice: Women in Rural India. UN Commission on the Status of Women on

“Feminist Sociological Research: Challenges and Opportunities of Rural Women & Girls”!, New

York City, March 2018 (with Preethi Krishnan).

Constructing Oppositional Consciousness: Taaras, a Movement of Women in Sex Work. ASA Annual

Meetings, Montreal, 2017 (with Shama Karkal, and Kallan Gowda).

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Ignorance and Knowledge: Women Sex Workers and HIV Prevention in India. Closed workshop,

Ethics and Politics of Community Engagement in Global Health Research, University of Oxford (UK),

September 2016.

Gender and Social Impacts of Institutional Arrangements for Improved Seed Technologies: A Review

of the Literature. Regular Session. Food and Agriculture: Seeds, Safety, and Systems. ASA Annual

Meetings, Seattle, August 2016 (with Andrew Raridon, Preethi Krishnan, Leigh Raymond, and

Marianne Bracke).

Empathy as Emotion Work in Research: Study of Women Sex Workers in India. Regular session:

Methodology, Qualitative. ASA Annual Meetings, Seattle, August 2016.

Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Prevention among Women Sex Workers: Case of India. SWS

Winter meetings, February 2016 (with Jenean Cox, and Ellen Rochford).

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).

Community Organizing and Prevention of HIV/AIDS: Challenges and Opportunities. International

Conference – Gandhi, Gram Swaraj, and Decentralisation – Kerala Institute of Local Administration,

Thrissur (India), 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).

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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TEACHING

Courses taught (since 2007) Graduate level

Introduction to Research Methods I (required graduate methods)

Sociology of Gender - Seminar

Readings in Political Sociology: Social Movements - Seminar

Transnational Social Movements - Seminar

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

Gender Roles in Modern Society

Introduction to Methods of Social Research I (Statistics)

Global Social Movements – Honors only

Global Social Movements (Honors only section)

Global Social Movements (regular + Honors)

Independent Study

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Guest Lectures for Courses

Comparative Health Policy; Women and Leadership course (ENTR 470)-senior level course in

entrepreneurship); Introduction to Global Studies (for Global Studies majors and minors)

Contributions to course and curriculum development

Course offering selected by Honors College

HONR 299 - Social Movements: Local and Global, spring 2016

New course

Global Social Movements (International Programs in Agriculture grant received in November 2001).

Approved as College 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

i. Graduated PhDs - Major Professor or Co-Chair

Beth Williford, PhD (2009)

Topic: Globalization, Local Movement and Transnational Networks. (Funded

through a NSF Dissertation Improvement grant.)

Christopher Bunka, PhD (2016)

Topic: Globalization and State: Factors Contributing to the Contemporary Food

Crisis.

Gulcin Con, PhD (2018)

Topic: Gender and Parental Support to Adult Children in Later Life

ii. Graduated with MS - Major Professor or Co-Chair

Ellen Rochford (MS 2017)

MS topic: Gender and Ability in Intercountry Adoption Markets: State regulation

and parental preference in the United States.

Jenean Cox (MS 2014)

MS Topic: Immigrant Experiences with the United States Visa Application

Process.

Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy, (MS 2013)

MS topic: Adjudicating Domestic Violence Cases: Interpretations of Domestic

Violence Laws by the Supreme Court in India.

Soon seok Park MS (2013)

Topic: Public Opinion regarding Globalization: Explanatory Power of Attitudes

toward Nationalism.

David Whitlock, MS (2011)

Topic: Resentment and Mobilization: The Tea Party Movement and an

Embedded Case of Protest.

Lori Lundell, (MS 2010)

MS topic: Social Meaning of Retail Spaces: Gender, Race and Class.

Shalini Choudhury, MS (2009)

Topic: Native Language Retention among Asian Immigrants.

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Christopher Malackany, MS (2009)

Topic: A Selective Imperialist Model for the U.S. State in the Global Political

Economy.

Kirstin Eismin, MS, American Studies & Women’s Studies (2007)

Topic: Mobilization through the Internet: A Case Study of Indiana NOW.

Dina Banerjee, MS (2004)

Topic: Group Participation & Women’s Perceived Autonomy in Rural India.

Purba Das, MS (2002)

Topic: Globalization and Consumerism.

iii. Students for whom was major professor for at least one year

Lori Lundell (2009-2018)

Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy (2011-2018

Zachary D. Palmer (2016-2018)

Vasundhara Kaul (2017-18)

Mychii Null (2008-09)

Jenean Cox (2014-17)

B. As PhD committee member (currently, unless year of graduation is noted in parentheses)

Soon seok Park, Sociology, PhD Candidate

Stephanie Wilson, Sociology, PhD student

Jared Wright, Sociology, PhD Candidate

Renu Dalal, Technology Leadership & Innovation, PhD student

Rachel D. Scarlett, Ecological Sciences and Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate

Program, PhD student

Jenny Beal, Pharmacy Practice, PhD student

Kristin Villa, Pharmacy Practice, PhD Candidate

Pragya Mishra, Pharmacy Practice, PhD Candidate

Henry Skoving Seeger, Brian Lamb School of Communication, PhD student

Humera Dinar, Anthropology, PhD Candidate

Suyuan Zhang, Pharmacy Practice (2017)

Andrew Raridon, Sociology, PhD Candidate (2017)

Bruce Biggs, Organization Leadership and Supervision, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

(2016)

Jigar Rajpura, Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy (2015)

Jyothi Menon, Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy (2015)

Leamaster, Reid J., Sociology (July 2014)

Bhardwaj, Anjali, Anthropology (2013)

Steinhour, Michael, Sociology (2013)

Zhilin Tang, Sociology (2011)

Dan Weiss, Sociology (2011)

Hira Bhattacharya, History (2010)

Gregory Gibson, Sociology (2008)

Karen Remedois, English (2007)

Joshua Frye, Communication (2007)

Tariqah Nuriddin, Sociology (2007)

Tara Kent, Sociology (2002)

C. MS committee member (year of graduation is noted in parentheses)

Dandan Zheng, Pharmacy Practice, MS student

Gediwon N. Milky, Pharmacy Practice, MS student

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Suyuan Zhang, Pharmacy Practice (2015)

Mishra, Pragya, Pharmacy Practice (2014)

Villa, Kristin, Pharmacy Practice (2014)

Harris, Emily, Sociology (2014)

Jyothi Menon, Pharmacy Practice (2011)

Sandy E. Koh, Sociology (2009)

Karen Hustedt, Sociology (2007)

Omolola A. Adedokun, Sociology and Education (2007)

Tauna Starbuck Sisco, Sociology (2005)

Beth Williford, Sociology (2004)

Elizabeth Sternke, Anthropology (2003)

Er Zhang, Sociology (2002)

Undergraduate - Honors Sociology Honors: Catherine Carstens (Spring 2016, Fall 2016; Spring 2017); Rachel E. Lundstrom

(Fall 2014 & Spring 2015); Wynne R. Lucas (Spring 2014).

Graduate Students Supported on Grants

2017-18, 2018-19 Preethi Krishnan, Graduate Assistant, Butler Center

2017-18, 2018-19 Zachary D. Palmer, Research Assistant, Butler Center

Spring 2017 Zachary D. Palmer, Analyzing COACHE Survey Data for Associates. Funds

from Provost’s Office.

Summer 2016 Zachary D. Palmer, Analyzing COACHE Survey Data for Associates. Funds

from Provost’s Office.

Summer 2016 Jenean Cox, Coping with Intimate Partner Violence: High Risk Groups and

HIV Prevention in India. CLA Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences

grant.

05/15-07/16 Andrew Raridon, Gender and Social Impacts of Institutional Arrangements for

Improved Seed Technologies. Purdue-Mellon grant.

01/15-12/15 Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy, Gender and Social Impacts of Institutional

Arrangements for Improved Seed Technologies. Purdue-Mellon grant.

Summer & Fall 2015 Jenean Cox, International Symposium - New Approaches to Citizenship and

Inequality: Gender, Race, and Rights. Global Synergy Research grant.

Spring 2015 Jared Wright, Transnational Water Forums. Diversity and Inclusion:

Implications for Science and Society grant.

Summer 2013 Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy, HIV/AIDS and Rights of Sex Workers. Global

Synergy Research 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.

Spring 2013

Spring 2010 & Shalini Choudhury, 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, Gender and Socio-cultural Scripting: Non-

governmental Organizations (NGOs) and HIV/AIDS in India. Kinley Trust

grant.

Summer 2005 Dina Banerjee, Group Effects on Poor Women’s Empowerment in Rural India.

American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Small

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Grants for Cutting Edge Research and Research Activities: The Fund for the

Advancement of the Discipline award.

Spring 2005 Beth Williford, Group Effects on Poor Women’s Empowerment in Rural India.

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). International

Programs in Agriculture’s (IPIA) International Curriculum Enhancement

Grant (for expertise in web related work).

Fall 2001 Anindita Sen, Krannert School of Management. College of Liberal Arts Dean’s

Incentive grant.

Graduate Students Supported on Fellowships/Dissertation Grants

2016-17 PRF, Organizing and Deploying Frames: State-Movement Dynamics in Case of

Food and Nutrition Rights in India. For Preethi Krishnan’s dissertation.

2014-15 PRF, Globalization and State: Factors Contributing to the Contemporary Food

Security Crisis. For Chris Bunka’s dissertation.

2008-09 Purdue’s Bilsland Fellowship, Globalization, Local Movement, and

Transnational Networks. For Beth Williford’s dissertation.

2007-08 Globalization, Local Movement, and Transnational Networks. Co-PI: Beth

Williford), NSF Dissertation Grant ($7,500)

Undergraduate Students Supported on Grants

Fall 2016-Spring 2017 Catherine Carstens, Political Science Honors. Undergraduate RA, College of

Liberal Arts, 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, Mellon grant

Fall 2014 Rachel E. Lundstrom, Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research

Internship

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, State, Social Movements and Water in India.

Fall 2007 Jaclyn Tabor, Outsourcing of Jobs in the IT Industry: Role of the Indian State.

Spring 2007 Gladys Pan, Outsourcing and Transnational Movement of Jobs: The IT Industry

in India and the US. Jaclyn Tabor, 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

06/2018- Associate Editor, Social Problems (currently housed in University of

Cincinnati)

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11/2017- Associate Editor, International Journal of Rural Management (currently

housed in IRMA, India)

2018 SWS Sub-committee, Policies and Procedures for Contractors and Service

Providers

2017-18 Member, Investment Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society.

2017-18 Past-Treasurer and Council member, Sociologists for Women in Society

(elected).

2016 Member, Search Committee for Executive Officer, Sociologists for Women in

Society.

2016-17 Treasurer and Council member, Sociologists for Women in Society (elected).

2015-16 Treasurer-elect, Sociologists for Women in Society (elected).

2015-16 Member, SSSP Global Division Book Award committee.

2014-16 Member, Editorial Board, Gender & Society.

2013-14 National Science Foundation, panelist.

2014 Organizer (with Chaitanya Lakkimsetti), “Gender and Sexual Politics: The

States of Neoliberalism,” Sex & Gender section session, ASA Annual

Meetings, San Francisco, August 2014.

2011-2014 Secretary/Treasurer & Council Member, ASA’s Sex & Gender Section

(elected).

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.

2008-2009 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).

2008 Organizer, Sex & Gender section session: War Empire, Gender, and Labor,

ASA Annual Meetings, Boston.

2006-2007 Chair, Lee Scholar-Activist Support Fund, Society for the Study of Social

Problems.

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/College/Department (only after 2002 is listed) 2018- Climate Survey Steering Committee (appointed by Provost)

2018- Climate Survey Sub-Committee-faculty (appointed by Provost)

2018 - 2018 COACHE Survey and Analysis team

2018 Member, Diversity Committee for interviews of candidates for Dean, Graduate

School; Director, CERIAS,

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2017- Member, ADVANCE Purdue Steering Committee (appointed by Provost)

7/2017- Member, Purdue Social Sciences Institutional Regulatory Board for Use of

Human Subjects

2016-17 Member, Department Fellowship Committee.

2017-18 Member, Primary Committee of Full Professors, Anthropology (appointed by

Office of CLA Dean)

Spring-Fall 2016 Working Group for COACHE Survey, Office of Provost.

2016 Member, Steering Committee, Global Cities/Global University Symposium.

2015-16 Member, College of Liberal Arts Cluster Hire in Quantitative Methods.

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).

2013-14 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.

2012-15 Member, Center for Social Sciences Fellowship Selection Committee, CLA.

2011-14 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.

2011-12 Chair, CLA Diversity Action Committee (Advisory Committee to Dean).

2010-13 Member, CLA Diversity Action Committee (Advisory Committee to Dean).

2009-10 Member, Faculty Advisory Board, CLA Engagement Office.

2009-10 Member, Sociology Graduate Studies Committee.

2009-10 Member, Sociology Fellowship Committee.

2009-10 Faculty Adviser, Support Revolutionary Association of the Women of

Afghanistan (Support RAWA), Purdue Student Organization.

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.

2008-09 Member, Sociology Head Search Committee.

Fall 2003 - Member, Grievance Committee, College of Liberal Arts.

Fall 2008 - Member, Educational Policy Committee, College of Liberal Arts.

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.

2004 - 05 Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Department of Sociology &

Anthropology.

2004-06 Member, Women’s Studies Advisory Board.

2004-07 Faculty Adviser, Drishti (South Asia Student Organization, College of Liberal

Arts, Purdue University).

2004 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.

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2004-2006 Member, Women’s Studies Advisory Board.

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Occasional Reviewer (2015-18): AJS, Current Sociology, Environment & Planning A, Feminist

Criminology, Feminist Studies, Gender & Society, Human and Resources Management, International

Sociology, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, JWSR, PLOS ONE, Sex Roles, Sociology Compass,

Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Perspectives

Book proposal for Routledge; Oxford University Press

NSF reviewer

Faculty Mentoring

Spring 2015- Christie Sennott, Assistant Professor, Sociology.

Spring 2018- Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Assistant Professor, Physics (mentor external to

department)

Community Engagement

Featured – University and Extra-university

Featured in Chapter on Gender Inequality as Sociologist in Action: Mangala Subramaniam. Essay

entitled: “Empowering Marginalized Groups.” In Ballantine, Jeanne, Keith Roberts, and Kathleen

Odell Korgen. Our Social World. CA: Sage Publications, Inc. forthcoming 2019.

2018 - Quoted extensively in “The Effective Executive: Diversity is the source of strength in

twisting times for a business,” DNA Money. http://www.dnaindia.com/business/report-the-

effective-executive-2606337

[About DNA Money: DNA is an English broadsheet daily owned by Diligent Media Corporation,

an Essel Group company. Through news, views, analyses and interactivity, dna provides readers

with a composite unbiased picture of the city, the country and the world around them. Today, dna

is the second most read English broadsheet daily in the city of Mumbai and is the preferred choice

of 15.06 lakh readers in Mumbai alone (based on total readership for Q4 2012 from Indian

Readership Survey).]

2018 - Featured in Purdue’s 2017annual research report with a theme of space + earth. See p. 15

ASIA/INDIA

Building Bridges Across Gender, Race, Caste and Class

http://www.purdue.edu/research/publications-data/docs/annual-reports/report_2017.pdf

2017 - Featured in Provost’s newsletter

Faculty focus- Dec 2017. https://www.purdue.edu/provost/about/newsletter/facultyFocus/december-

2017.html

Butler Center: https://www.purdue.edu/provost/about/newsletter/past-newsletters/october-

2017.html

2017 -Dr. Mangala Subramaniam named YWCA Woman of Distinction

wlfi.com

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Nine women, including one Purdue University professor,

will be honored for their work in the community.

Opinion Pieces and Invited Talks

Opinion piece: Women Weavers as Entrepreneurs. Page 10 in Deccan Herald, Feb 9, 2017 [Deccan

Herald is a leading English Daily in India.] http://www.deccanherald.com/content/595483/women-

weavers-entrepreneurs.html OR see the epaper http://www.deccanheraldepaper.com/ for the

specific date.

Opinion piece: Strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention in Karnataka. Page 11 in Deccan Herald, July

20, 2016 [Deccan Herald is a leading English Daily in India.] www.deccanheraldepaper.com for the

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specific date or at http://www.deccanherald.com/content/558932/strategies-hivaids-prevention-

karnataka.htm

Politics of Rights to Water. 2016. Invited Blog, Gender & Society.

https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/politics-of-rights-to-water/

Intimate Partner Violence among Women Sex Workers (WSWs), Two Events: Discussion with

WSWs in closed session and Open Invited event, Bangalore, December 2015 (using CLA

engagement grant).

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).

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.

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