1 MANGALA SUBRAMANIAM 10/18 Professor, Department of Sociology Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (USA) Email: [email protected]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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ 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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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