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RICHA NAGAR
nagar@umn.edu
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~nagar/

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae (9/10)

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I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

Education:

Ph.D.      1995       Geography, University of Minnesota, USA
M.A.       1989       Geography, University of Poona, India
B.A.        1986       English Literature, Geography, and Anthropology, Lucknow University, India

Professional Employment:

2007-                     Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota

2001-2007             Associate Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota

1997-2001             Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of Minnesota

1995-1997             Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder

Current Graduate Faculty Membership:

2006-                       American Studies

2004-                       Asian Literatures, Cultures and Media

2003-                       Conservation Biology

2002-                       Geography

2001-                       Feminist Studies

Administrative Experience

2008-                     Associate Dean for Faculty, College of Liberal Arts

2006-07                 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

2000-01                 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Women’s Studies

II. SCHOLARSHIP AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

Books

• Amanda Swarr and Richa Nagar, editors. 2010. Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis. Albany: SUNY Press.

• Eric Sheppard, Philip Porter, David Faust, and Richa Nagar. 2009. A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development. New York: Guilford Press.

• Sangtin Writers and Richa Nagar. 2006. Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in India. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Nominated by University of Minnesota Press for A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation, 2007
  • Honored by the Geographical Perspectives on Women Specialty Group, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, 2007

• South Asian edition of Playing with Fire published by New Delhi: Zubaan Books with all authors identified as Sangtin Writers.

• Anupamlata, Ramsheela, Reshma Ansari, Vibha Bajpayee, Shashibala, Shashi Vaish, Surbala, Richa Singh and Richa Nagar. 2004. Sangtin Yatra: Saat Zindgiyon Mein Lipta Nari Vimarsh. [A Journey of Sangtin: Feminist Thought Wrapped in Seven Lives]. Sitapur: Sangtin. 150 pages.

  For complete text of this book, go to: http://www.sangtin.org/pub-hin/yatra2004

  To correspond with the authors, write to: hamarasafar@gmail.com

• Chapter 2 adopted as a chapter in the Hindi literature textbook of the Central Board Secondary Examination by the National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi.
• Reprinted: Excerpt from Chapter 4:  Qaid dar Qaid, in eds. Pamela Moss and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi, Feminisms in Geography: Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp.114-119 (2008).
• Reprinted: Excerpt from Chapter 5: In Sahara Samaya Samagra (Sunday magazine of major Hindi daily newspaper, New Delhi) April 10, 21 (2004).
• Reprinted: Excerpt from Chapter 6: In Janmat (Hindi periodical), 23:2-3 (2004).

Book in progress

• Richa Nagar and Richa Singh. Sangtin Yatra Jaari Hai [The Journey of Sangtins Continues]. Expected completion date: 2011.

Special Issues of Refereed Journal

• Viewpoints: "Feminists Talking Across Worlds." Gender, Place and Culture, 9:2 (co-edited with Lynn Staeheli).

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Richa Nagar and Tarun Kumar. Forthcoming. Theater of Hopes. Invited piece for symposium on “The influences of the imagined.” Eds. Mary Thomas and Christian Abrahamsson. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

   

  Sangtin Writers (Reena, Richa Nagar, Richa Singh, Surbala). Forthcoming. Solidarity, Self-critique, and Survival: Sangtin’s Struggles with Fieldwork. In eds. Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner. The Global and the Intimate: Towards a 21st Century Transnational Feminism. New York: Columbia.

   

  Richa Nagar and Richa Singh. 2010. Churnings of a Movement: Sangtins’ Diary. Special issue on “Nodes of Connectivity: Transnational & Global Advocacy at the Popular Level.” Eds. Jigna Desai and Geeta Rajan. South Asian Popular Culture 8:1:17-30.

   

  Nagar, Richa and Amanda Lock Swarr. 2010. Theorizing Transnational Feminist Praxis. In eds. Amanda Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar. Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis. Albany: SUNY, pp. 1-20.

   

  With Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis Contributors. 2010. Continuing Conversations. In eds. Amanda Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar. Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis. Albany: SUNY, pp. 206-217.

   

  Sangtin Writers (Reena, Richa Nagar, Richa Singh, Surbala). 2010. Still Playing with Fire: Intersectionality, Activism, and NGO-ized Feminism. In eds. Amanda Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar. Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis. Albany: SUNY, pp. 124-143.

   

  An earlier version of this chapter appeared in Critical Asian Studies 41:3:403-419 (2009).

   

  Nagar, Richa. 2008. Languages of Collaboration. In eds. Pamela Moss and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi. Feminisms in Geography: Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 120-129.

   

  Sangtin Writers (Richa Nagar, Richa Singh, Surbala). 2008. Safar Jaari Hai/The Journey Continues [A collective response in English and Hindi to Geraldine Pratt, Sharad Chari, Mathew Spark, Rupal Oza, and Gillian Hart]. Authors meet Critics: A set of reviews and response. Social and Cultural Geography 9:1: 226-236.

   

  Nagar, Richa and Susan Geiger. 2007. Reflexivity, Positionality and Identity in Feminist Fieldwork Revisited.  In eds. Adam Tickell, Eric Sheppard, Jamie Peck and Trevor Barnes. Politics and Practice in Economic Geography. London: Sage, pp. 267-278.

   

  Benson, Koni and Richa Nagar. 2006. Collaboration as Resistance? Reconsidering Processes, Products, and Possibilities of Feminist Oral History and Ethnography. Gender, Place and Culture 13:5:581-592.

   

  Singh, Richa and Richa Nagar. 2006. In the Aftermath of Critique: The Journey after Sangtin Yatra.  In eds. Saraswati Raju, Satish Kumar and Stuart Corbridge. Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies of India. London: Sage, pp. 298-319.

   

  Nagar, Richa. 2006. Local and Global. In eds. Stuart Aitken and Gill Valentine. Approaches to Human Geography. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage, pp. 211-217.

   

  Sheppard, Eric and Richa Nagar. 2004.  From East-West to North-South. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 36:4:557-563.

   

  Nagar, Richa and Amanda L. Swarr. 2004. Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with “Empowerment” in India and South Africa. In eds. Lise Nelson and Joni Seagar. A Companion to Feminist Geography. London: Blackwell, pp. 291-304.

   

  Swarr, Amanda L. and Richa Nagar. 2004. Dismantling Assumptions: Interrogating “Lesbian” Struggles for Identity and Survival in India and South Africa. SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29:2:491-516.

  • Translated into Mandarin by Li Wang (www.yifanbbs.com/ubb/Forum48/HTML/006081.html; and 006415 html)

  Nagar, Richa. 2004. Mapping Feminisms and Difference: The Debate over Mut’a in Tanzania.  In eds. L. A. Staeheli, E. Koffman and L. J. Peake. Mapping Gender, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography. New York: Routledge, pp. 31-48.

   

  Nagar, Richa (in consultation with Farah Ali and Sangatin). 2003. Collaboration Across Borders: Moving Beyond Positionality. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 24:3:356-372.

  • Reprinted in eds. George Henderson and Marvin Waterstone. 2009. Geographical Thought: A Praxis Perspective. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 149-161. 

   

  Faust, David and Richa Nagar. 2003. Third World NGOs and US Academics: Dilemmas and Politics of Collaboration. Ethics, Place and Environment 6:1:73-78.

   

  Nagar, Richa and Saraswati Raju. 2003. Women, NGOs and the Contradictions of Empowerment and Disempowerment. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 35:1:1-13.

  • Reprinted in ed., Stuart Corbridge. 2008. Development: Critical Essays in Human Geography. CONTEMPORARY FOUNDATIONS OF SPACE AND PLACE, Series Editor: John Agnew, Hants: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

   

  Wescoat, James L., Richa Nagar, and David Faust. 2003. Social and Cultural Geography. In ed. Veena Das. THE OXFORD INDIA COMPANION TO SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, New Delhi, New York: Oxford University Press, Vol. 1, pp. 326-365.

   

  Nagar, Richa, Victoria Lawson, Linda McDowell and Susan Hanson. 2002. Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization. Economic Geography 78:3:257-284.

  • Reprinted in eds. Marina Della Giusta, Uma Kambhampati and Robert Wade. 2005. Critical Perspectives on Globalization. THE GLOBALIZATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY, Series Editor: Mark Casson, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

   

  Staeheli, Lynn and Richa Nagar. 2002. Feminists Talking Across Worlds. Gender, Place and Culture 9:2: 167-172.

   

  Nagar, Richa. 2002. Footloose researchers, Traveling Theories and the Politics of Transnational Feminist Praxis. Gender, Place and Culture 9:2: 179-186.

   

  Nagar, Richa. 2002. Women’s Theater and the Redefinitions of Public, Private and Politics in North India. ACME An International E-Journal for Critical Geographers 1:1:55-72.

  • Reprinted (in abridged form) in Special issue on Women and Theater. Nukkad Janam Samwaad (Bilingual journal of Jan Natya Manch or People’s Theater, New Delhi), Oct 2007-March 2008: 21-26.

   

  Faust, David and Richa Nagar. 2001. English Medium Education, Social Fracturing, and the Politics of Development in Postcolonial India. Economic and Political Weekly July 28-August 3: 2878-2883.

  • Translated into Italian by Giovanna Gallo

   

  Nagar, Richa. 2000. Mujhe Jawab Do [Answer Me]: Feminist Grassroots Activism and Social Spaces in Chitrakoot (India). Gender, Place and Culture 7:4: 341-362.

  • Translated into German by Frauensolidaritaet, and excerpts read by two professional actresses in Vienna on International Women’s Day, 2003.
  • Reprinted (in abridged form) in The South Asian May-June, July-Aug, Sep-Oct, 2003.

           

  Nagar, Richa. 2000. Religion, Race and the Debate over Mut'a in Dar es Salaam. Feminist Studies 26:3: 661-690.

   

  Nagar, Richa. 2000. "I'd Rather be Rude than Ruled": Gender, Place, and Communal Politics among South Asian Communities in Dar es Salaam.  Women's Studies International Forum 23:5: 571-585.

   

  Nagar, Richa. 1998. Communal Discourses, Marriage, and the Politics of Gendered Social Boundaries among South Asian Immigrants in Tanzania. Gender, Place and Culture 5:2: 117-139.

  • Reprinted in eds. Katie Willis and Brenda Yeoh. 2000. Volume 10: Gender and Migration. THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF STUDIES ON MIGRATION. Series Editor: Robin Cohen. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 228-250.

   

  Nagar, Richa and Helga Leitner. 1998. Contesting Social Relations in Communal Places: Identity Politics Among Asians in Dar es Salaam. In eds. Ruth Fincher and Jane Jacobs. Cities of Difference. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 226-251.

   

  Nagar, Richa 1998. The Difference That Gender Makes. Chapter-section in P.W. Porter and E. S. Sheppard. A World of Difference: Nature, Society, Development. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 50-60.

   

  Nagar, Richa. 1997. The Making of Hindu Communal Organizations, Places and Identities in Postcolonial Dar es Salaam. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15: 707-730.

   

  Nagar, Richa. 1997. Communal Places and the Politics of Multiple Identities: The case of Tanzanian Asians. Ecumene: A Journal of Cultural Geographies 4:1: 3-26.

  • Reprinted (excerpt) in Jenny Robinson. 1999. Divisive Cities: Power and Segregation in Cities.  In eds. Steve Pile, Christopher Brook and Gerry Mooney. Unruly Cities? Order/Disorder. London and New York: Routledge in association with The Open University, pp. 149-200.

   

  Nagar, Richa.1997. Exploring Methodological Borderlands Through Oral Narratives. In eds. J.P. Jones III, H.J. Nast, and S.M. Roberts, Thresholds in Feminist Geography. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 203-224.

   

  Nagar, Richa. 1996. The South Asian Diaspora in Tanzania: A History Retold. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: A Journal of Politics, Culture and Economy 16:2: 62-80.

Invited Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries

Faust, David and Richa Nagar. 2008. Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs). International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition. Editor in Chief: William A. Darity. Farmington Hills: Macmillan Reference USA / Thomson Gale, pp. 520-521.

 

Richa Nagar. 2009. Six essays in eds. Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts and Sarah Whatmore. The Dictionary of Human Geography: Fifth Edition. London: Blackwell.

          Action Research, pp. 4-5

          Caste, p. 72

           Empowerment, p.191

           Gender and Development, pp. 269-270

           the ‘South,’ pp. 704-705 and

           the ‘West,’ pp. 808-809.

Selected Creative, Scholarly, and Journalistic Writing in Hindi and Awadhi

Tarun Kumar, Richa Nagar aur Richa Singh. 2010. STREET PLAY (Awadhi): Aag lagi hai jangal maa [The jungle is burning]. Sangtin Kisaan Mazdoor Sangathan. August.

Richa Nagar aur Richa Singh. 2009. Qatl jaisa hi gunah [A sin akin to murder]? Sunday Nayi Duniya, Samaya Section 12 April, p. 10.

Richa Nagar aur Richa Singh. 2009. Safar mein poora samudaya shamil ho [The entire community must join the struggle]. Sunday Nayi Duniya, Samaya Section 5 April, p. 10.

Richa Nagar. 2008. Aupniveshik narivaad se bhoomandaliya narivaad tak [From colonial feminism to global feminism]. Naya Gyanodaya (Flagship Literary Journal in Hindustani) July, pp. 17-21.

Richa Nagar. 2008. Khayiyon ke khilaf qadam: Bhoomnadaliyakaran ki mar Amerika se Bharat tak [On AFSCME workers’ strike at the University of Minnesota and parallels with the Sangtin Kisaan Mazdoor Sangathan’s agitation in Sitapur against implementation of National Rural Employment Guaranty Scheme]. Outlook Saptahik January 21, p. 48.

Richa Nagar. 2007. Rangbhed aur naslwad se do-do haath [On sangtins’ trip to the US and new understandings of racism and casteism]. Outlook Saptahik October 22, pp. 46-47.

Richa Nagar. 2007. Pardesi zameen par desi chhaap: Sangtin ki Amerika yatra thi alag dhang ka fieldwork [On sangtins’ trip to the US and reversal of the dominant definition of “fieldwork”] Outlook Saptahik (Hindi magazine from Outlook India) August 13, pp. 50-51.

Richa Nagar. 2007. Akademic gyan aur zameeni sangharsh be beech ki khayin patni chahiye [An interview with Uttarakhand activist Uma Pathak on bridging the gulf between academic knowledges and grassroots movements]. Uttara Mahila Patrika April-June, pp. 20-23.

Co-editor. Hamara Safar. Sangtin’s community newspaper (2006-2007).

EDITORIALS in Hamara Safar:

• Sampadak ki qalam se [From the pen of the editor], 2:1:1-2, 2007.
• Sach ki jung [Struggling for truth], 1:3:1-2, 2006.
• Paribhasha mahila muddon ki [Definition of "women's issues"], 1:2:1-2, 2006.
• Hamari Baat [Our dialogue], 1:1:1-2, 2006.

Richa Nagar. 2003. Do kavitayen: Dar es Salaam ke naam, Sofia [Two poems: For Dar es Salaam, Sofia]. Vagarth: Special issue on writings on and by diasporic Indians 95: June: 92-93.

Prabha Ratudi and Richa Nagar. Presented by Khajan Singh. 2003. Ashaon ke beej: Prabha Ratudi se Richa Nagar ki baatcheet [Seeds of hope: Uttarakhand activist Prabha Ratudi speaks with Richa Nagar]. Uttara: Mahila Patrika 13:2 (January-March):18-21.

Richa Nagar. 2002. Shodh: Mujhe jawab do/Chitrakoot ke gavon mein Vanangana ki pukar [Research: Mujhe jawab do/Vanangana’s cry in Chitrakoot’s villages]. Bharat Rang: Half yearly Journal of Bhartendu Akademi of Dramatic Arts 2: April-September: 76-88.

Richa Nagar. 1987.  Aur Ek Diary Ke Panne [Reflections on a month long theater workshop with Rekha Jain]. Natrang February.

Richa Nagar. 1984. Parchhayyiyan Marti Hain [Vanishing shadows: a short story, adapted from Sonia Bhalotra’s, “Fantasies die”]. Saarika December.

Performance

A Staged Reading of Ismat Chughtai’s Story (in Hindustani), Do Haath [A Pair of Hands], followed by a 1 hour long public discussion on the relationship between economics of untouchability and sexual morality. Pangea World Theater, Minneapolis, September 13-14, 2008.  (I organized the community theater project, provided conceptual direction to the workshops, and played a lead anchor in the play).

INVITED KEYNOTES, COLLOQUIA, LECTURES, BOOK FORUMS

• Book release and discussion forum on: Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis (with Amanda Swarr). Department of Women’s Studies, University of Washington-Seattle, May, 2010.
• Platforms for Public Scholarship: Symposium on Transnational Feminist Praxis, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington-Seattle, May, 2010.
• Keynote speaker, Conference on Crossing Borders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, April, 2010
• Colloquium in Departments of Women’s Studies and Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 2009
• Colloquium, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 2009.
• Keynote speaker, International conference on Gender Justice and Body Politics, Organized by African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town (South Africa), February 2009.
• Lecture and discussion forum, International Labor Research and Information Group, Cape Town (South Africa), February 2009
• Collaborative research and praxis: A discussion of Playing with Fire and Reconceptualizing Collaboration (co-presented with Amanda Swarr), Organized by Simpson Center for the Humanities, Women’s Studies and South Asian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, October, 2008
• Keynote speaker, Conference on Expanding Interdisciplinarity: From Campus to Community, Organized by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, June 2008
• Annual Atwood Lecture, Clark University, March 2007
• Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, April 2008
• Development Studies, Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, April, 2008.
• Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, April 2008.
• Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (U.K.), February 2008.
• Future of Minority Studies and Women’s Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse. April 2007.
• Geography Department Colloquium, Clark University, Worcestor, March 2007.
• Authors Meet Critics: A Book Forum on Playing with Fire organized by Professor Geraldine Pratt and sponsored by Social and Cultural Geography. Panelists: Sharad Chari, Gillian Hart, Rupal Oza, Geraldine Pratt, Matt Sparke, Richa Singh, Surbala, and Richa Nagar. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
• Asian America Studies and South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 2007.
• Center for South Asia, Stanford University, Stanford, April 2007.
• Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Poona, Pune, August 2006.
• Geography Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, March 2006.
• Feminist Studies Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 2006.
• Geography Colloquium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, February 2006.
• Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, January 2006.
• Geographies of Feminism and Difference Series, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 2005.
• Feminism and Social Theory in Geography Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, November 2004.
• Department of Geography and Global Affairs Institute, Syracuse University, Syracuse, September 2004.
• Women’s Studies Center, University of Poona, Pune, March 2004.
• Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 2004.
• Delivered the Fall Inaugural Lecture, Asian Studies Program, Vassar College, October 2003
• Feminist Studies Colloquium, University of Minnesota.  Minneapolis, March 2003.
• Department of Sociology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, March 2002.
• Speaker Series: Nature, Society & Culture: A Tribute to the work of Philip W. Porter, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 2001.
• Division of International Development, American University, Washington D.C., February 2001.
• Feminist Studies-Comparative Women’s History Colloquium Series on Engendering Politics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 2000.
• Aalochana: Centre for Documentation and Research on Women, Pune, July 2000.
• Geography Department Colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 2000.
• Feminist Studies Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 1998.
• Women's Studies Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, March 1997.
• Women's Studies Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill, February 1997.
• Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Lucknow, July 1996.
• Geography Colloquium, San Diego State University, San Diego, March 1995.
• Geography Colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder, February 1995.

IV. TEACHING:

Courses Taught

              Undergraduate:

                                        Stories and Struggles

                                        Gender and Global Politics

                                        Gender, Labor, Politics

                                        International Feminist Theories

                                        Senior Research Seminar

                                        Geographies of International Development

               Graduate:

                                        Feminisms and Praxis

                                        Gender, Space, and Resistance

                                        Feminist Theory and Methods

                                        International Feminist Theories

                                        Cultures of Development

                                        ICGC/MacArthur Doctoral Research Seminar             

                K-12 Teachers' Workshops:

                                        Institute for Global Studies' 7-day K-12 Teacher's Workshop on Gender and Global Politics

                                        Institute for Global Studies' 3-day K-16 Teacher's Workshop on Globalization, Violence, and

                                       Critical Literacy

V.  SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial or Editorial Advisory Board Member

             2006-              Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society

              2006-             Geography Compass

              2005-             Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

              2005-2008      The Professional Geographer

              2000-2007       ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographers

              1999-              Ecumene, now called Cultural Geographies

              1999-2006       Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography

              1991-1994        Social Science History

Reviewer

Refereed Journals

• ACME,
• Annals of the Association of American Geographers,
• Antipode,
• Cultural Geographies,
• Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
• Ethnography,
• Feminist Studies,
• Gender, Place and Culture,
• Political Geography,
• The Professional Geographer,
• Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
• Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography,
• Signs,
• Social and Cultural Geography,
• Urban Geography,
• Women's Studies International Forum.

Presses

• Paradigm Publishers,
• Guilford Press,
• Rowman and Littlefield,
• University of Minnesota Press,
• Duke University Press.

Association of American Geographers

2001-04         Elected Member, Affirmative Action & Minority Status Committee

1999-2001      Board Member and Chair of Awards Committee, Geographical Perspectives on Women Specialty Group

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

2007              Reviewer, Inaugural Fellowship Competition

2008              Reviewer, Residential Fellowship Competition

2009              Reviewer, Residential Fellowship Competition

Dartmouth College’s John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

2009              External manuscript reviewer for Dr. Jennifer Fluri

National Science Foundation and the American Society for Engineering Education

2005              Panelist, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Evaluations (Economics, '

                     Geography and Public Policy)

2004-              Proposal Reviewer, Geography and Regional Sciences, Post-doctoral Fellowships.

National Women’s Studies Association Conference

2001                Member, Plenary Committee

Social Science Research Council

2006                Screener, Inaugural Fellowship Competition, Pre-dissertation Fellowship for International Collaboration.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2006, 2008       Proposal Reviewer, Standard Research Grants Program

Recent invitations received for Promotion and Tenure Reviews

Aligarh Muslim University (India), Hindi Literature

Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), School of Environment, Resources and Development.

University of Kentucky, Geography

University of Massachusetts, Boston, Women’s Studies

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Communication Studies

Smith College, Women’s Studies

University of Toronto, Women’s Studies

VI. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

Post Graduate

• Fellow, Committee on Institutional Cooperation: Academic Leadership Program, 2009-10
• Scholar of the College Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2008-11
• College of Liberal Arts Nominee, Morse Teaching Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 2008
• Resident Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 2005-06
• McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota, 2002-05
• McKnight Land Grant Professor, University of Minnesota, 2000-02
• Junior Faculty Development Award, University of Colorado, 1997 (declined)

Graduate and Undergraduate

• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota Graduate School, 1993-94
• Darrell Haug Davis Fellowship, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, 1992-93
• National Science Foundation Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Geography and Regional Sciences, 1992-93
• MacArthur Pre-dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1991
• Summer Fellowship, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, 1991
• MacArthur Fellow, University of Minnesota, 1989-95
• Gold Medalist, First position in M.A./M.Sc. Geography Examination, University of Poona and Affiliated Colleges, 1989
• National Merit Scholarship, Department of Education, Government of India, 1987-89
• Student of the Year Award & Honor Roll, Avadh College, Lucknow University, 1986

GRANTS

Research Grants

2008           India Center Initiative Grant, Office of International Programs, UMN

2008           Institute for Global Studies Faculty Travel Grant, UMN

2005-06      College of Liberal Arts Research Fellowship Supplement, UMN

2005            Institute for Global Studies Faculty Travel Grant, UMN

2005            Grant from the Office of International Programs, UMN

2003            Grant-in-aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship, Graduate School, UMN

2003            Faculty Sabbatical Supplemental Grant, UMN

2001            MacArthur Consortium Research Grant, UMN

2000            Single Semester Leave, UMN (declined)

2000            Office of International Programs Travel Grant, UMN

2000            Association of American Geographers Travel Grant for International Geographical Congress, Seoul

1999            McKnight International Travel Grant, UMN

1999            UNESCO Bursary for the Gendered Mobilities in Asia Conference, Hong Kong (declined)

1998            Grant-in-aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship, Graduate School, UMN

1997            University of Colorado IMPART Grant

                   Program for the Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching)

                   Grant (declined)

1996            University of Colorado Travel Grant from the Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities

1995            University of Colorado IMPART Grant

Conferences and Workshops Organized

2009-11 Rethinking Internationalization in CLA Workshop Series

             Co-organized with Evelyn Davidheiser, University of Minnesota, 21 September 2009; 14 December 2009; 5

             April 2010; 16-17 September 2010.  Forthcoming workshops: December 2010 and April 2011.

2008     Communalism, Secularism, and Multiculturalism: Forging a dialogue in the Twin Cities’ Indian and

            Pakistani communities through Hindustani poetry and theater

            This four month long community theater project (Jun-Sep), undertaken with artist and writer, Tarun Kumar

            (from Mumbai), laid the foundation of Hindustani political theater in the Twin Cities.  The first production, based

            on Ismat Chughtai’s story, Do Haath (A Pair of Hands), was staged at Pangea World Theater on September 13

            and 14 and co-sponsored as an event of the South Asia Seminar Series by the Institute for Advanced Study, India

            Center, Consortium for the Study of the Asias, Department of Geography, and the Interdisciplinary Center for

            the Study of Global Change (ICGC).

2007     Collaboration Across Borders: A series of ten conversations with sangtin

            Held with graduate students, labor organizers, and development aid organizations in Minnesota, New York, and

            California. Cosponsors from University of Minnesota included: CLA Scholarly Events Fund, Institute for Global

            Studies, ICGC, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS); Chicano Studies; and American Studies, March

            31–May 5.

2006     Toward a Transnational Feminist Praxis: Conference and Workshop

            Co-organizer: Amanda Swarr, University of Washington. Cosponsored by Institute for Global Studies, ICGC,

            and GWSS, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, September 15-16.

2001      Immigrant Labor, Diasporic Identities, and Political Mobilization

             A Workshop of the Minnesota-Stanford-Wisconsin MacArthur Consortium. Cosponsored by ICGC and CLA

             Scholarly Events Fund, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 5-6.

Graduate Research Partnership Grants

2005            Graduate Research Partnership Grant, with Papori Bora

2003            Graduate Research Partnership Grant, with Koni Benson

2001            Graduate Research Partnership Grant, with Amanda Swarr

Undergraduate Research Partnerships

2007-08        Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Grant, with Arnoldas Blumberg

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