Bandana Purkayastha
Associate Professor of Sociology
and Asian American Studies
Manchester Hall - Room 215
860 486. 3791
570. 9222 in West Hartford
Bandana.Purkayastha@uconn.edu
Granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, Bandana Purkayastha received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Connecticut. In 2004, she was recognized by the State of Connecticut for her Outstanding Advocacy on behalf of South Asian immigrants in Connecticut, and she received the University of Connecticut's Woman of Color Award for Excellence in Leadership, Achievement and Service. She won the Teaching Promise Excellence Award from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in 2001. And in 2000, she was awarded a UConn Research Foundation Grant of $7,845 to study transnational ties and second generation South Asian youth. An international perspective, use of web-based teaching and learning tools, active learning and research projects are central features of her courses.
Research Interests and Works in Progress include transnational communities; urban Sociology; Gender and Ethnicity; migration; and South Asia. "Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World" will be published in May, 2005 by Rutgers Univ. Press. Her book The Power of Informal Networks: Lessons in Social Change from South Asia and West Africa, co-edited with M. Subramaniam was published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, in 2004.
Selected Publications:
Purkayastha, B. Skilled Migration and Cumulative Disadvantage: The Case
of Highly Qualified Asian Indian Immigrant Women in the U.S. (in press,
Geoforum, U.K., 2004)
Purkayastha, B. 2003. Contesting the Boundaries of Home and the World: Tagore and the Construction of Citizenship. In Patrick Hogan and Lalita Pandit (eds.) Rabindranath Tagore at the End of the Millenium: Questions of Gender, Nation, Science and Tradition. Madison: Farleigh Dickenson Press (and London: Associated Univ. Press) pp.49-64.
Purkayastha, B., Subramaniam, M., Desai, M., and Bose, S. 2003. Gender Scholarship in India: A partial review. Gender & Society, 17:503-524.
Purkayastha, B. 2002.
Contesting Multiple Margins: Economic Restructuring and Community Activism.
In N.Naples and M.Desai (ed.) Globalization and Community Activism.
London: Routledge.
Purkayastha, B. 2001. Non-cooperation as a Means of Peaceful Conflict Resolution: Cases from India. Forum International. (Germany) 22:267-292.
Ferree, M., and Purkayastha,
B. (2000) Equality and Cumulative Disadvantage: Response to Baxter and
Wright. Gender and Society: 6:809-813.