Faculty

Office: Manchester Hall 215
Telephone: (860) 486-3791
E-Mail: bandana.purkayastha@uconn.edu

Education:

PhD, University of Connecticut, 1999
MA, University of Connecticut, 1994
MS, University of Massachusetts, 1987
BA, University of Calcutta, 1978

Recent Publications

Narayan, Anjana and Purkayastha, Bandana. 2009. Living Our Religions: South Asian Hindu and Muslim Women narrate their experiences. Stirling, VA: Kumarian Press.

Caforio, Giuseppe, Kuemmel, Gerhard, and Purkayastha, Bandana. (eds.) 2008. Armed Conflict and Conflict Resolution: Sociological Perspectives. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group.

Purkayastha, Bandana. 2005.  Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.  

Purkayastha Bandana. 2009.  "Another Word of Experience? South Asian Diasporic Groups and the Transnational Context."  Journal of South Asian Diasporas.  1: 85-99. 

Purkayastha, Bandana and Narayan, Anjana. 2009.  "Bridges and Chasms. Orientalism and the Making of Indian Americans in New England."  In Asian Americans in New England, edited by Monica Chiu.  Durham, NH: New England University Press. 

Purkayastha, Bandana. 2009. "Tagore and Human Rights."  In Celebrating Tagore, edited by Clinton Sealey and Rama Datta. Kolkata: Allied Publishers.

Purkayastha, Bandana and Majumdar, Shweta. 2009.  "Sex Trafficking in South Asia."  In Globalization and Third World Women, edited by Ligaya McGovern and Isidor Welman,   London: Ashgate. 

Important Professional Positions

Deputy Editor, Gender and Society , 2006- present.

Vice President, Research Committee 01 (Armed Conflict and Conflict Resolution), International Sociological Association.

Board, Research Committee 32 (Women in Society), International Sociological Association.

Council, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association, 2004-2007.