SAUNJUHI VERMA 773-954-3318; [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Chicago, Department of Sociology 2012 Dissertation: Black Gold, Brown Labor: The Legalization of Indentured Work through the Transnational Migration Industry Committee: Mario L. Small (Chair), Kristen Schilt, and Edward O. Laumann M.A. University of Chicago, Department of Sociology 2009 B.A. Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Economics 2005 Economics (Dean’s List Honoree) B.A. Indiana University Bloomington, Independent Major Program 2005 International Development (Honors College Graduate) B.S. Indiana University Bloomington, School of Business 2005 Finance EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE Jan 2020 Inqlab Consultancy, Los Angeles - Present June 2014 Assistant Professor, School of Management and Labor Relations - 2020 Rutgers, State University of New Jersey August 2012 Provost’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, - May 2014 Duke University September 2005 Research Consultant, National Law School - May 2006 (Top Tier Ranking: No. 1 in India) May 2004 Financial Analyst Emerging Markets, Citibank London - April 2005 RESEARCH SPECIALTIES Critical Immigration Studies & Migration Theory, Transnational Labor, Law & Policy, Work & Gender, Critical Race Theory, Postcolonial Studies 1 REFEREED BOOK PUBLICATION Forthcoming Verma, SaunJuhi. Captive Labor: Political Exile in the Age of Global Fall 2022 Migrant Markets, pp.1-338. Cambridge University Press (Book Manuscript) Forthcoming Verma, SaunJuhi, Patricia Maloney, Duke Austin. Fall 2022 Schooling Exclusion: The School to Deportation Pipeline, pp. 1-210. New York University Press (Book Manuscript) REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming Verma, SaunJuhi. “Academic Eurocentrism: Legacies of White Colonial Fall 2021 Education” Toward Abolishing White Supremacy in Higher Education Vol. 14 pp.1-23. Forthcoming Verma, SaunJuhi. “Decolonizing Academia: Modalities for Non-white Self- Fall 2021 Determination” Toward Abolishing White Supremacy in Higher Education Vol. 14 pp.1-24. 2019 Verma, SaunJuhi. “State Labor Sponsorship: Role of Nation State Regulation in Undermining Migrant Employment Standards” Journal of Industrial Relations pp.1-33. 2021 Patricia Maloney, Duke W. Austin, and SaunJuhi Verma. “Fear of a School-to- Deportation Pipeline: How Teachers, Administrators, and Immigrant Students Respond to the Threat of Standardized Tests and Deportation” Urban Education pp. 2019 Verma, SaunJuhi. “Seasoning Labor: Contemporary South Asian Migrations and the Racialization of Immigrant Workers” Journal of Asian American Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, February 2019, pp.31-52. 2019 Verma, SaunJuhi. “Globally Excluded: Modern Regimes of Political Displacement” UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Vol. 23, Issue 2, September 2019, pp.2-33. 2018 Verma, SaunJuhi. “Masculine Vulnerabilities: The Double Bind of Manhood in Global Migration” Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 35, November 2018, pp.77- 99. 2017 Verma, SaunJuhi, Patricia Maloney and Duke Austin. “School to Deportation Pipeline: The Perspectives of Immigrant Students and Their Teachers on Profiling and Surveillance within the School System” The 2 ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Vol. 673, No. 1, September 2017, pp.209-229. 2014 Verma, SaunJuhi. “Between Colonial Rule and Racial Exclusion: Legal Rights to Mobility in the Post-1965 Exclusion Era” Issues in Race & Society: An Interdisciplinary Global Journal. April 2014, pp. 27-48. 2014 Verma, SaunJuhi. “Participatory Development: Rhetoric or Reality?” Resource Net Issue No.194. June 2014, pp.61-83. 2014 Verma, SaunJuhi. “Gender Mainstreaming and Other Unrealized Development Initiatives” Women’s Rights and Economic Change, Issue No.3. Aug 2014, pp. 31-57. REFEREED BOOK CHAPTER PUBLICATIONS 2019 Verma, SaunJuhi. “Law, Labor, and Discipline: Indian Migrants and Political Belonging” Our Stories: An Introduction to South Asian America. Ed. Samip Mallik and Monisha Das Gupta. pp.2-23. 2017 Verma, SaunJuhi. “Labor policy and global Indian diaspora” in Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora. Radha S. Hegde and Ajaya Sahoo. (Ed.) p.77-89. London and New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. 2016 Jessi Straub, SaunJuhi Verma, Whitney Welsh, and Linda M. Burton. 2016. “Life, Death, and Resurrections: The Culture of Poverty Perspective” The Oxford Handbook of The Social Science of Poverty. Edited by David Brady and Linda M. Burton. pp. 247-269. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. BOOK REVIEWS 2011 Verma, SaunJuhi. “Contemporary Modality: Regulating Gender and Labor” Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Center Industry. Reena Patel. Book Review. American Journal of Sociology. No.5 March. pp.1354-1356. 2009 Verma, SaunJuhi. “New Orleans and the Storm of Katrina: Issues of Trust and Terrain” Breach of Faith and What is a City?. J. Horne and P. Steinberg, R. Shields. Book Review. The Griot: Newsletter of the Association of Black Sociologists. pp. 21-43 3 RESEARCH GRANTS 2019-20 Asia Studies Initiative (Acceptance Rate 5%) PI: SaunJuhi Verma, Paul Schalow, Tamara Sears Center for Cultural Analysis Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 2015-16 International Collaborative Research Grant (Acceptance Rate: 12%) PI: SaunJuhi Verma Center for Global Advancement and International Affairs Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 2014-15 Fulbright Global Scholar Program (Acceptance Rate: 2%) Fulbright Nehru Grant PI: SaunJuhi Verma United States Council for International Exchange of Scholars 2013-14 Sanford School of Public Policy Pilot Study Grant PI: SaunJuhi Verma (Acceptance Rate: 6%) Duke University 2011 Study of the Global South Grant (Acceptance Rate: 11%) Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts 2011 Academic Support Grant (Acceptance Rate: 23%) University of Chicago, Office of Multicultural Affairs 2010 South Asia Research Support Grant (Acceptance Rate: 7%) University of Chicago, Committee on Southern Asian Studies 2010 CSRPC Research and Travel Grant (Acceptance Rate: 13%) University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture 2010 SSD Research and Travel Grant (Acceptance Rate: 9%) University of Chicago, Social Science Division 2010 Charles Bidwell Fund (Acceptance Rate: 4%) University of Chicago, Department of Sociology 2009 Jerome M. Clubb Fund (Acceptance Rate: 2%) University of Michigan, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research 4 2009 Doolittle-Harrison Fund (Acceptance Rate: 17%) University of Chicago 2002 Honors College Grant Program Indiana University, Professional Overseas Experience FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2020 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) vs. DOJ School to Deportation Pipeline Research cited in case 2014 Asian International Labor Summit (Jogyakarta, Indonesia) Award Recipient: Speaker at 41st ARTDO International Leadership 2011-12 CSRPC Research Fellowship (Acceptance Rate: 2%) University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture 2011-12 Michael and Ling Markovitz Social Science Fellowship University of Chicago (Acceptance Rate: 5%) Social Science Division (Deferred) 2011-12 Southern Asian Studies Fellowship (Acceptance Rate: 10%) University of Chicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies 2010 Harry Braverman Paper Award Society for the Study of Social Problems Paper Competition Award Recipient: Winner of the Labor Studies Division 2009 Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship (Nomination) University of Chicago, Social Sciences Divisional Competition 2003-05 Annual Research Partnership Award Indiana University, Graduate School INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2020, May 26 Invited Speaker, MOCHA Podcast, Understanding the School to MOCHA Deportation Pipeline in the U.S. with SaunJuhi Verma, Patricia Maloney, and Duke Austin https://mochalosangeles.com/picture-theory/understanding-the-school-to- deportation-pipeline-in-us-with-juhi-verma-patricia-maloney-and-duke-w-austin 5 2019, Feb 6-11 Invited Speaker, Dhar India Studies Program, “Globally Excluded: Indiana South Asian Laboring in the Diaspora” Bloomington, Indiana. University 2018, Feb 23 Invited Speaker, UCLA School of Law Symposium UCLA “Globally Excluded: The Immigration Infrastructure of Contemporary School of Law Indentured Labor” Los Angeles, California. 2018, April 25 Invited Keynote Speaker, Political Representation and 2016 Post-Election Cal State Symposium “Desi Visibility: What Does Representation Look Like in the Northridge Contemporary Political Climate?” Northridge, California. 2017, April 18 Commencement Keynote Speaker, Asian American Graduation, Asian Indiana Culture Center at Indiana University University 2016, October 18 Invited Speaker, Research Seminar: Labor Relations, Law, & History/ Cornell International and Comparative Labor “Legality of Migration: Using the Law to Trade in Coerced Migrant Workers” School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, New York. 2016, April 22-23 Invited Speaker, Symposium on The Inner City Yale School: Inequality and Urban Education, “The School-to-Prison-to- Deportation Pipeline: Navigating Educational Opportunity in Seven American Cities” New Haven, Connecticut. 2016, March 18 Invited Speaker, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor CUNY Studies, “E-Migrate: Biometric IDs and State Regulation of Indian Migrants” CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, Manhattan, New York. 2016, Feb 24-26 Invited Speaker, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, “Gender, Harvard Precarious Work, and Labor Organizing” Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2015, April