Shilpa Reddy 2112 Parren J Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, 3834 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20742, USA 240-459-4019 [email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD Sociology (In progress) Since Jan 2016 University of Maryland - College Park, MD, USA
MSc Gender, Development and Globalization September 2010 London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Courses: • Gender Theories in the Modern World, an Interdisciplinary Approach; • Globalization, Gender and Development; • Gender and Media Representation; • Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice Dissertation: “Stuck in a time warp: Bollywood’s gender ideology in the era of cultural globalization”
Bachelor of Commerce May 2002 Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India
Diplôme de Langue Française (Degree in French) May 2003 Alliance Française de Bangalore, India
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor August 2012 to June 2015 School of Communication, Manipal University, Manipal, India • Taught courses in Journalism, Media and Development Communication at undergraduate and master’s levels at India’s leading private university • Supervised over 100 undergraduate research papers and one master’s dissertation
Lecturer, Gender Studies January to June 2012 Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh • Designed and taught an undergraduate course Women and Gender in Indian Cinema • Volunteered as Yoga instructor for students, filling an important gap in the curriculum
Instructor, Yoga Summer 2017 & Winter 2018 Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, US • Designed and taught an undergraduate course on Yoga
Teaching Assistant (for courses listed below) 2016 - present Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, US • Human Societies • Why does educational inequality persist in the US? • Logic of Social Inquiry • Social Stratification
1 EXPERIENCE in Development and Journalism
Communications Manager October to December 2011 Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh • Designed and implemented the overall communication strategy of the newly founded university • Recruited, trained and led a team of communication staff • Edited and wrote articles for the university’s newsletter • Wrote several successful proposals to donor agencies and foundations
Communications Consultant May to September 2011 Vimochana and FEDINA, Bangalore, India
(Vimochana is a forum for women’s rights providing protection, counseling and legal help for victims of marital violence and dowry harassment. FEDINA is an NGO that empowers the structurally marginalized including tribals, dalits and women)
• Wrote website content, funding proposals, and quarterly and annual reports • Edited publications of both NGOs • Monitored and wrote reports for Vimochana’s Burns Ward project which provides legal help to women who were burnt by their families
Journalist April 2003 – October 2007 Covered health, education, poverty and development issues at leading English language newspapers in India
Senior sub-editor, Mid-Day, Bangalore June 2007-October 2007 Senior reporter, The Indian Express, New Delhi May 2006-January 2007 Reporter, The New Indian Express, Bangalore July 2005-March 2006 Copy-editor, The Times of India, Bangalore October 2004-July 2005 Sub-editor-cum-reporter, Vijay Times, Bangalore April 2003-October 2004
Journalistic achievements • Conducted a sting operation in Belgaum (a South Indian district which has the lowest sex ratio in the state) exposing doctors guilty of doing sex determination tests and abortions of female fetuses, both of which are crimes under Indian law. The story forced authorities to conduct raids and shutdown the clinics (The New Indian Express 2005). • Exposed incidents of caste-based discrimination at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India’s premier medical school, in New Delhi (The Indian Express, 2006). • Wrote a series of reports exposing the absence of basic facilities in government-owned hospitals in Bangalore (The New Indian Express, 2005). • Produced a series of in-depth reports on the poor condition of government schools in New Delhi (The Indian Express, 2006).
AWARDS
➢ Policy Communication Fellowship, Population Reference Bureau, 2018-19. ➢ UMD Sociology Graduate Student Summer Fellowship for Research collaborations, 2017 ➢ UMD BSOS Dean’s Research Initiative Pre-candidacy Award 2018 ➢ UMD BSOS Dean’s Research Initiative Travel Award 2018 ➢ UMD William H Form Summer Fellowship 2018. 2
PRESENTATIONS
Conferences: ➢ Presented “Does money protect women from violence? Individual and Community level effects of women’s employment on marital violence in India” at the PAA annual meeting in April 2018 in Denver, US. ➢ Presented “The Feminism in ‘Feminist’ Bollywood Movies” at the Sixth GCRA International Conference on Media in Transformation, “GCRA 2014” in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in February 2014.
Invited talks: ➢ Presented my doctoral research on domestic violence at GradTerp Exchange, UMD, October 2018. ➢ Conducted training workshops on gender for FEDINA activists from May to September 2011. ➢ Gave lectures “Gender and Globalization” and “Portrayal of Women in Tamil Cinema” at the Women’s Studies Refresher’s course in Bharathiar University, India, in February 2011. ➢ Presented ‘Reporting on female feticide in India’ to journalists at “National Media Workshop: Sex Selection and Female Feticide” organized by UNICEF, in September 2005 in New Delhi. ➢ Presented “Media’s Role in Curbing Sex-selective Abortion and Female Feticide” at the first national bioethics conference “Ethical Challenges in Healthcare: Global Context, Indian Reality” in November 2005 in Mumbai.
PUBLICATIONS (Non-journalistic)
➢ Edited a UNICEF-funded Training of Trainers (ToT) manual on Menstrual Hygiene Management on behalf of Bharathidasan University, India in 2011. ➢ Authored course material for a foundation course “Gender and Development Studies” for Bharathidasan University, in 2010-11.
LANGUAGES
➢ Fluent in English, Tamil and Kannada. Intermediate level French, Telugu and Hindi.
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
➢ Part-time Yoga instructor, certified by Yoga Alliance, USA (2009), and SVYASA, Bangalore, India (2005). ➢ Part-time Swimming instructor. American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor Certification (2017); US Masters Swimming Adult Learn to Swim Instructor Certification (2018); US Masters Swimming Coach Certification Level 1&2 (2018). ➢ Performed Salsa at the India International Salsa Congress 2008 in Bangalore.
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