Winter 2012 Office Hours:

Mondays 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Tuesdays 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Thursdays 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
and by appointment

Courses:

• SOAN 150: Who Cares and Who Gets Care? Women and Health
• SOAN 157: Culture and Politics in India
• SOAN 225: Social Movements
• SOAN 242: Qualitative Thinking
• SOAN 255: Sociology, Culture and Politics in South Asia
• WGST 100: The Politics of Women's Health
• WGST 200: Feminist Ways of Knowing
• WGST 234: Feminist Theory
• WGST 240: Gender, Globalization and War
• WGST 250: Women's Health Activism
• WGST 396: Transnational Feminisms

Interests:

Meera Sehgal (B.A., Ferguson College, India; M.A., Pune University, India; M.A. & Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004) has a joint appointment in the Sociology & Anthropology department and in the Women’s & Gender studies program. She serves as the director of the South Asian studies program and is a member of the Sexual Misconduct Committee in Carleton’s Community, Equity and Diversity Initiative.

Her research interests are in the areas of gender, race, class & sexuality; social movements; globalization; militarism; transnational feminisms and India.  Based on ethnographic methods, her research examines the mobilization of women in the right-wing Hindu nationalist movement in India. Her more recent fieldwork centers on a South Asian transnational feminist network and its consciousness-raising work in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Meera emphasizes interdisciplinary feminist perspectives in her teaching and travels regularly to India for research and familial purposes. She teaches courses on social movements, women's health in the U.S., qualitative methods, transnational feminist theory, and feminist approaches to knowledge production, globalization and militarization.