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Mangala Subramaniam
Associate Professor of Sociology
Dr. Subramaniam received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2001 and joined the Purdue University faculty in 2001.
Office Phone: (765) 496-2631
Email: mangala@purdue.edu
Specialization: Social Movements, Gender, International Women’s Movement & Grassroots Organizations, India.
Courses: Taught (Last two years)
SOC 382 - Introduction to Methods of Social Research I
SOC 338 - Global Social Movements Independent Research in Sociology
SOC 609G - Sociology of Gender
IDIS 280 - Introduction to Women's Studies
IDIS 380 - Gender and Multiculturalism
She has authored and co-authored articles in journals such as: Critical Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Mobilization and Gender & Society. Mangala’s most recent article focuses on the role of the state in outsourcing in the IT sector by examining legislations that came before the US Congress and the state of California between 1999 and 2005. Her monograph, The Power of Women's Organizing: Gender, Caste, and Class in India (2006) focuses on the women’s movement in India with specific attention to dalit women’s organizing. She has also co-edited a collection, The Power of Women’s Informal Networks: Lessons in Social Change from South Asia and West Africa (2004). She is currently working on a book on social movements (local, national and transnational contexts) forthcoming through Cambridge University Press. Her ongoing research projects focus on socio-cultural framing of information disseminated about HIV/AIDS in India and community resistances to the privatization of water resources. She has presented papers at both national and international conferences. Mangala has mentored both undergraduate and graduate students and has taught courses in research methods and statistics, gender, and social movements. She regularly offers an undergraduate course, global social movements, that she created through a small grant. Her recent graduate course offering was the sociology of gender. For more details go to: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~msubrama/.
Positions at Purdue University
2001 to present Associate Professor of Sociology & Women's Studies
Service to the Profession
Chair-elect, Lee Scholar Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 2006-07.
Team Member, International Experts for Poverty Alleviation, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva (2001-2004).
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