Meera Sehgal
Office Hours:Tues/Thurs: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.Friday: 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. Courses:Interests:Meera is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison). She specializes in social movements, gender and South Asia. Her research, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, focuses on the mobilization and participation of women in a religious right wing movement in India. Originally from India, she emphasizes a transnational feminist perspective in her teachings and travels regularly to India for research and familial purposes. She teaches courses on South Asia, social movements, qualitative methods, post-colonial feminist theory, feminist approaches to research and women's health in the U.S. |