CURRICULUM VITAE
MAHUA SARKAR
Department of Sociology Binghamton University, SUNY Binghamton, NY 13902 [email protected]
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Associate Professor of Sociology, Asian and Asian-American Studies and Women’s Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY) Visiting Fellow (October 2011 – July 2012) Internationales Geisteswissenschaftliches Kolleg (IGK) at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
Ph. D., The Johns Hopkins University, Sociology, 1999. M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, Sociology, 1993 (Graduate Diploma in Program in Comparative International Development) B.A. magna cum laude, Colby College, Sociology, 1991 Visiting student at London School of Economics and Political Sciences (1989- 90) MA in Kathak (North Indian Classical Dance), Sangeet Praveen, Allahabad, India, 1985-6.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Bengali (fluent) English (fluent) French (reading) Hindi (spoken fluent; reading) Urdu (spoken) Magyar (elementary) German (elementary)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Visiting Fellow, “Arbeit und Lebenslauf in Globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive”. Internationales Geisteswissenschaftliches Kolleg (IGK), Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, August 2009- July 2010.
Harpur College Grant in Support of Research, Scholarship and Creative Work, 2009- 10.
Visiting Scholar In Residence, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, March-June 2009
Resource Faculty, Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching Program for Junior University Teachers in the Social Sciences, Ruza, Russian Federation (funded by the Higher Education Support Project of the Open Society Foundation), August, 2008.
Visiting Senior Research Fellowship, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, February-June, 2007
Dean’s Research Fellowship, Harpur College, Binghamton University, SUNY, 2001- 2002
Research Grant, United University Professionals, 2000, 2001
Research Grant, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Binghamton University, SUNY, 1999-2000
Dissertation Research Grant, awarded by the Department of Sociology, Program in Comparative International Development, The Johns Hopkins University, December 1995
Preliminary Dissertation Research Grant, awarded by Department of Sociology, Program in Comparative International Development, The Johns Hopkins University for pre-dissertation research, January 1994
Graduate Scholarship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1991-1998.
Merit Scholarship, Colby College, 1987-1991.
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Phi Beta Kappa, Colby College, 1991
Julius S. Bixler Award for Academic Excellence, Colby College, 1989
Charles A. Dana Award, Colby College, 1988, 1991
National Scholar, Classical Dance, Government of India, 1980-1987
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PAST APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Fellow/Faculty, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Delhi, India (2009-10)
Visiting Research Affiliate, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, January-August 2007
Assistant Professor, Sociology, September 1999-August 2005, Binghamton University, SUNY
Visiting Lecturer, Sociology, Spring 1999, Binghamton University, SUNY
Visiting Lecturer, Sociology, Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University, 1998
Adjunct Faculty, Sociology and Anthropology, Towson University, Maryland, 1997- 1998
Visiting Lecturer, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, 1997
Assistant Instructor, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, 1993-1996
Research Assistant, Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins—Union Memorial Hospital--Greater Homewood Community Collaborative Project, P.I. Professor Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly), 1995
Research Associate, Johns Hopkins University, Sociology (Labor Unrest and Capital Mobility in Global Industries, funded by the National Science Foundation, P.I. Professor Beverly J. Silver), 1994
Assistant Instructor, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Sociology (Masters Seminar in Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health), 1992, 1993
Research Assistant, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, (A Very Small World System: The Wintu and Its Neighbors, funded by the NSF, P.I. Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn), 1992, 1993
Research Assistant, Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University (Homelessness in Baltimore, P.I. Professor Ann Shlay), 1992
Research Assistant, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University (Beginning School Study, P.I. 4
Professors Doris Entwisle and Karl Alexander), 1991-1992
Research Consultant, Interpretation and Interviewing (Bengali—English), Department of Social Policy and Administration, The London School of Economics and Political Sciences (Racial Bias in Allocation of Council Housing in London, P.I. Perveez Cooper), 1990
Research Assistant, Sociology, Colby College (Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-century England, P.I. Professor Sonya Rose), 1989
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Visible Histories / Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
Re-published in English: New Delhi: Zubaan Books (South Asian edition), 2008.
Journal Articles
“Difference in Memory”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 48, 1 (January 2006): 139-68.
Forthcoming in Magyar:
“Emlékezet-Másság.“ Korall: Társadalomtörténeti folyóirat (Coral, a Social History Journal), Budapest, Forthcoming.
“What Is the EU?” (with József Böröcz), International Sociology, 20, 2 (June 2005):153- 73.
Re-published in English:
In Tamás Krausz and Péter Szigeti (eds.) Eszm élet / Consciousness. Selected Essays, 6-25. Budapest: Eszmélet Foundation.
Hungarian version:
„Mi az EU?" Politikatudományi Szemle (Review of Political Sciences). 3 (2005): 3:151-77. 5
Belorussian version:
„Што такое Эўрапейскі Зьвяз?” ARCHE (Minsk) 1,2 (41,42): 38-51.
“Looking for Feminism.” Gender & History, 16, 2 (August, 2004): 318-333.
Magyar version:
„Feminizmus-keresés.“ Selected for inclusion in the first collection on post- colonial studies in Magyar, Social Theory College, Corvinus University, Budapest.
“‘Community’ and ‘Nation’: Groping for Alternative Narratives.” Economic and Political Weekly, (27 December 2003): 5335-5337. Available online: http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php? root=2003&leaf=12&filename=6640&filetype=html. Also listed in the Communalism Archive at: http://www.sacw.net/DC/CommunalismCollection/ArticlesArchive/
“Muslim Women and the Politics of Invisibility in Late Colonial India,” Journal of Historical Sociology, 14, 2 (June 2001): 226-50.
Review Essay: “Shame and Honour.” Biblio: A Review of Books, VII, 11-12, (Nov-Dec 2002): 12-3.
“Place Names and Intersocietal Interaction: Wintu Expansion Into Hokan Territory In Late Prehistoric Northern California,” (with Dr. Christopher Chase-Dunn) PCID Working Paper Series, The Johns Hopkins University, (1993). http://www.jhu.edu/~soc/pcid/papers/9 , re-published as Working Paper # 3 at the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside, http://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows3.txt
Invited Encyclopedia Entries
József Böröcz and Mahua Sarkar. “Colonialism.” Mark Juergensmeyer and Helmut Anheier (eds.) Global Studies Encyclopedia, New York: Sage. Forthcoming.
József Böröcz and Mahua Sarkar. “Empires.” Mark Juergensmeyer and Helmut Anheier (eds.) Global Studies Encyclopedia, New York: Sage. Forthcoming.
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Chapters in Edited Volumes
“What Is the EU? Three Years After the ‘Big Bang’ Enlargement.” In Josef Langer (ed.) Forces Shaping the EU—Social Science Approaches to Understanding the European Union. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
Magyar version:
„Mi az Európai Unió? Visszatekintés három évvel a nagy bővítés után.“ Selected for inclusion in the first collection on post-colonial studies in Magyar, Social Theory College, Corvinus University, Budapest.
Forthcoming Articles (including under review)
“Oral History and the Politics of Method in the Human Sciences.” Forthcoming in Uma Chakravarti (ed.), Exploring Gender, Redefining the Field. Feminist Journeys in the Social Sciences. (provisional title). Seagull, Kolkata
“Between Craft and Method: Meaning and Inter-Subjectivity in Oral History Analysis.” Under Review at the Journal of Historical Sociology.
“Being Modern Together: Urban Muslim and Hindu Women in Pre-Partition Bengal.” Forthcoming in Mridiula Nath Chakraborty (ed.) Being Bengali, At Home and in the World. Palgrave, NY.
“Bonded Migration: Bangladeshi Workers in Temporary Contract Work in Singapore.” Forthcoming in Ranabir Samaddar (ed.) Empire and Migration. (provisional title).
“All of us came away [to Kolkata] together, what fun!” In A Sense of the Past: Women’s Writings on Partition, edited by Urvashi Butalia. New Delhi: Zubaan Books. Forthcoming, 2011.
“The Acceptable Muslim.” In Muslim Identities in Hindi Films, edited by Nirmal Kumar and Claudia Preckel. London: Routledge. Forthcoming.
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Book Reviews (in refereed journals)
Community and Nation: Essays on Identity and Politics in Eastern India by Papiya Ghosh. H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. March, 2010. Online at http://www.h- net.org/reviews
Women in the Indian National Movement: Unseen Faces and Unheard Voices, 1930- 42, by Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, in the Asian Journal of Social Science. Volume 37, 2 (April 2009): 319.
Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry, by Samita Sen in Work, Employment & Society: A Journal of the British Sociological Association, 15,1(March, 2001): 210-212.
The Emergence of Feminism among Indian Muslim Women: 1920-1947, by Azra Asghar Ali in The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 2, 3 (Winter 2001). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_histo ry/v002/2.3sarkar.html
Tradition and Liberation: The Hindu Tradition in the Indian Women’s Movement, by Catherine A. Robinson in Women’s History Review, 10,1 (March 2001): 173-5.
SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Beyond Borders,” paper presented at Being Bengali at Home and in the World, International Collaborations Workshop, College of Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia, August 20, 2010. Funded by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, International Science Linkages—Humanities and Creative Arts Programme.
“Between Craft and Method: Shaping Interpersonal Spaces for Oral History.” Workshop on Exploring Gender, Redefining the Field: Feminist Journeys in the Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India, June 1-5, 2010. Also presented at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, July 23, 2010.
“Bidesh Kara: Bangladeshi workers in temporary contract work in Singapore.” Invited Speaker, Fellows’ Colloquium Series, 2009-10. Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi, May 13, 2010.
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“Contingencies of Selfhood.” Invited Speaker, Seminar on Gender, Society and Selfhood, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, April 7, 2010.
“British Imperialism and Native Women’s History in Colonial India.” Invited Speaker, Symposium on ‘Global History through an Asian Lens’, Free University (VU), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 18, 2009.
“Temporary Contract Work in Historical Perspective.” Paper presented at the Labour and Global Justice Conference, Centre for Ethics and Value Inquiry, Ghent University, Belgium, November 19-20, 2009.
“Bonded Migration: Bangladeshi Workers in Temporary Contract Work in Singapore.” Third Critical Studies Conference on Empire and Migration, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India, September 11 and 12, 2009.
“Bonded Migration: Bangladeshi Workers and Temporary Contract Work in Singapore.” Központi Statisztikai Hivatal Népesedéstudományi Intézete (Institute for Demography of the Central Statistical Office, Budapest, Hungary), June 3, 2009. Also presented in the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, July 2, 2009.
“Outsourcing Class: Temporary Contract Work in Singapore.“ Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, Binghamton University, September 2008
Conveyor, Symposium on “Qualitative Research Methods,” Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching Program for Junior University Teachers in the Social Sciences, Ruza, Russian Federation, July 28-August 1, 2008.
“Fighting Over Crumbs: Hindu Muslim Conflict in Colonial Bengal.” Paper presented at the Second European Congress in World and Global History, Dresden, Germany, 3-5 July, 2008.
Invited Speaker, "The Merchant, the Soldier, The Writer (Clerk) and their Lovers: the Trouble with Native Women's History". Department of History, National University of Singapore, April 11, 2007
Invited Lecture, "Woman Nation Other: Muslim Women in the Public Discourse in Contemporary India". Organised by the Religion and Globalisation Research Cluster, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, April 4, 2007
“Partition in Memory,” paper presented at the 16th Congress of the International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, 29 July, 2006
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“Critical Pedagogy in the Times of Bush,” paper presented at the 16th Congress of the International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, 26 July, 2006
Invited Speaker, “Social Existence in a Globalised World”, Live Nationwide Radio Talk Show, Lotus FM, Durban South Africa, 25 July, 2006
“Doing Feminist Research,” Feminist Roundtable, Binghamton University, SUNY, March 30, 2006.
“Difference in Memory,” Invited Lecture, South Asia Seminar Series, Maxwell School of International Relations, Syracuse University, October 18, 2005.
“Partition in Memory,” paper presented at the Annual South Asia Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, October 13-16, 2005.
“The Social Production of Muslim-ness in Late Colonial Bengal: The Early Writings of Muslim Women,” paper presented at the 100th American Sociological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, August 16, 2005.
“Difference in Memory,” Invited Lecture, Gender Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, May 27, 2005.
“Difference in Memory,” presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium, National University of Singapore, June 9-11
“Globalisation and the Problems of Development Security”, paper presented at Workshop on Poverty and Development Issues in 2004 Parliamentary Elections, Kolkata, India February 1-2, 2004. Organised by the Independent Commission for People’s Rights and Development, New Delhi, All India Council for Mass Education and Development, Kolkata, and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Germany
“Filling Feminist Coffers”, Coloniality Working Group Conference, Binghamton University, SUNY, May 9-11, 2002
“Feminist Interruptions”, Conference on Feminist Interventions: Rethinking South Asia, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 3-4, 2002
“History and Memory”, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, March 7, 2001
“Muslim Women and the Politics of Invisibility in Late Colonial Bengal”, Symposium on Representing the Body in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia, Purdue 10
University, Indiana, February 24, 2001
“The Practice of Memory as Alternate History”, The 29th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 12-15, 2000
“Muslim Women and the Politics of Invisibility in Late Colonial India”, Nationalism and Minority Rights Conference, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, September 1999
“Politics of Invisibility in Late Colonial Bengal”, American Anthropological Association Meeting, Philadelphia, December 1998
“In Search of Gulbadan: Muslim Women in Hindu Nationalist Discourse in Late Colonial India” American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, August 1998
“Hindu Perceptions of Muslims and the Problematic of Muslim Identity in Late Colonial Bengal” 26th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October, 1997
“Gender, Religion, Class and the Imagining of the Indian Nation”, American Sociological Association Meeting, Toronto, August 1997
“The Women’s Movement in India: A View from the Bottom”, The United States State Department, May, 1997
“Gender, Religion and the Rise of Nationalisms in the Indian Subcontinent”, Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality, The Johns Hopkins University, November 1996
“Labor Protest and Capital Relocation in a Labour-Intensive Industry: Textiles in the 20th Century World Economy”, The Social Science History Association Meeting, Baltimore, November 1993
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reviewer, Women’s History Review, 2001—present
Editorial Board, Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women, SUNY Cortland, 2003-- present
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Referee, Domains, The Journal of International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2004
Reviewer, Asian Journal of Social Science, 2008
Reviewer, H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, 2009
Referee, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2009
TEACHING
Graduate:
Seminar on Nationalisms Seminar on Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Seminar on Postcolonial Theory Studies in Theory Writing, Orality, Memory: Inter-disciplinary Seminar in Qualitative Research Methods
Undergraduate:
Seminar on Global Structures and Change Seminar on Gender and Nationalism in South Asia Gender and International Development Social Movements in India Introduction to Sociology Introduction to Issues in International Development Immigration to the Americas Race, Class and Gender A Nation in Reel and Print: Gender, Media, Nation in Contemporary India
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, SUNY, 2000- 2003, 2005-present
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, SUNY, 1999—present
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Founding Member, Asian and Asian American Studies Program, 2001
Women’s Studies Steering Committee, Binghamton University, SUNY, 2000-2005
Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Asian/Asian American Studies, Binghamton University, SUNY, 2008
Organizer, Traveling Film South Asia, Documentary Film Festival, Binghamton University, SUNY, 2000-02 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
International Sociological Association
American Sociological Association
Central New York Scholars of South Asia Association
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