The Office of Undergraduate Workshop and Lecture Series
When: Tuesday,
March 27, 2018
4:00 PM
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5:00 PM
Where: > See description for location
Description: The Changing Dynamics of Transnational Feminisms
By Manisha Desai, Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut
CCB 149
March 27 @ 4 pm
This talk is organized in conjunction with Assistant Professor Eric Larson's class "Beyond Borders? Immigration and Justice" (CJS 350)
Manisha Desai is head of the Sociology Dept. and Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research and teaching interests include Gender and Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, Human Rights and women's movements, and Contemporary Indian Society. Her most recent book: Subaltern Movements in India: The Gendered Geography of Struggles Against Neoliberal Development was published by Routledge in 2016, the research for which was funded by a Fulbright Fellowship. She is the recipient of the 2018 Senior Research Fellowship from the American Institute for Indian Studies for nine months of field research in India on Four Decades of Feminist Activism. For her career contributions to feminist scholarship, she was named by Sociologist for Women in Society in 2015 as their Distinguished Feminist Lecturer.
She holds and has held several elected offices in the International Sociological Association, American Sociological Association and Sociologist for Women in Society (SWS), including President of SWS in 2007, and serves on numerous editorial boards including American Sociological Review and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She is the recipient of two mentoring awards, the 2016 Faculty Mentor Award from the Compact for Faculty Diversity and the 2017 Faculty Mentor award from the Dept. of Sociology.
By Manisha Desai, Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut
CCB 149
March 27 @ 4 pm
This talk is organized in conjunction with Assistant Professor Eric Larson's class "Beyond Borders? Immigration and Justice" (CJS 350)
Manisha Desai is head of the Sociology Dept. and Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research and teaching interests include Gender and Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, Human Rights and women's movements, and Contemporary Indian Society. Her most recent book: Subaltern Movements in India: The Gendered Geography of Struggles Against Neoliberal Development was published by Routledge in 2016, the research for which was funded by a Fulbright Fellowship. She is the recipient of the 2018 Senior Research Fellowship from the American Institute for Indian Studies for nine months of field research in India on Four Decades of Feminist Activism. For her career contributions to feminist scholarship, she was named by Sociologist for Women in Society in 2015 as their Distinguished Feminist Lecturer.
She holds and has held several elected offices in the International Sociological Association, American Sociological Association and Sociologist for Women in Society (SWS), including President of SWS in 2007, and serves on numerous editorial boards including American Sociological Review and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She is the recipient of two mentoring awards, the 2016 Faculty Mentor Award from the Compact for Faculty Diversity and the 2017 Faculty Mentor award from the Dept. of Sociology.
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