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Richa Nagar

Richa Nagar

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CLA, Associate Dean for Faculty 212 JohH
Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • politics of development
  • feminisms and praxis
  • people's movements

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Geography, University of Minnnesota, Twin Cities, USA, 1995.
  • M.A.: Geography, University of Poona, Pune, India, 1989.
  • B.A.: English Literature, Geography, and Anthropology, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India, 1986.

Publications

  • Critical Transntional Feminist Praxis. Nagar, Richa, Amanda Swarr, SUNY Press, Co-Editor, 2010.
  • A World of Difference. Nagar, Richa, Eric Sheppard, Philip Porter, David Faust, Guilford Press, Co-Author, 2009.
  • Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in India. Nagar, Richa, Sangtin Writers, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press and New Delhi: Zubaan., Author, 2006.
  • Sangtin Yatra: Saat Zindagiyon Mein Lipta Nari Vimarsh [A Journey of Sangtin: Feminist Thought Wrapped in Seven Lives]. Nagar, Richa, Anupamlata, Ramsheela, Reshma Ansari, Vibha Bajpayee, Shashibala, Shashi Vaish, Surbala, Richa Singh, Sitapur: Sangtin, Author, 2004.
  • In the Aftermath of Critique: The Journey after Sangtin Yatra. Nagar, Richa, Richa Singh, In eds. Saraswati Raju, M. Satish Kumar and Stuart Corbridge, Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies of India, Author, 2006.
  • Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with "empowerment" in India and South Africa. Nagar, Richa, Amanda Swarr, In eds. Lise Nelson and Joni Seagar, A Companion to Feminist Geography, Author, 2004.
  • Dismantling Assumptions: Interrogating "lesbian" struggles for identity and survival in India and South Africa. Nagar, Richa, Amanda Swarr, SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29:2:491-516, Author, 2004.
  • Collaboration Across Borders: Moving Beyond Positionality. Nagar, Richa, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 24:3:356-372, Author, 2003.
  • Locating Globalization: Feminist (re)readings of the subjects and spaces of globalization. Nagar, Richa, Victoria Lawson, Linda McDowell and Susan Hanson, Economic Geography 78:3:257-284, Author, 2002.
  • Footloose researchers, Traveling Theories and the Politics of Transnational Feminist Praxis. Nagar, Richa, Gender, Place and Culture 9:2:179-186, Author, 2002.
  • English Medium Education, Social Fracturing, and the Politics of Development in Postcolonial India. Nagar, Richa, David Faust, Economic and Political Weekly July 28-August 3:2878-2883, Author, 2001.
  • Religion, Race and the Debate over Mut'a in Dar es Salaam. Nagar, Richa, Feminist Studies 26:3:661-690, Author, 2000.
  • Mujhe Jawab Do [Answer Me]: Feminist grassroots activism and social spaces in Chitrakoot (India). Nagar, Richa, Gender, Place, and Culture 7:4:341-362, Author, 2000.
  • Communal Discourses, Marriage, and the Politics of Gendered Social Boundaries among South Asian Immigrants in Tanzania. Nagar, Richa, Gender, Place and Culture 5:2:117-139., Author, 1998.
  • The South Asian Diaspora in Tanzania: A History Retold. Nagar, Richa, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: A Journal of Politics, Culture and Economy 16:2:62-80, Author, 1996.

Awards

  • Scholar of the College, 2008 - 2011
  • Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford: Residential Fellowship, 2005 - 2006
  • Grant-in-aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship, University of Minnesota Graduate School, 2003 - 2004
  • McKnight Presidential Fellows Award, University of Minnesota, 2001 - 2004
  • McKnight Land Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota, 2000 - 2002
  • National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant, 1992 - 1993
  • MacArthur Fellow, University of Minnesota, 1989 - 1995

Courses Taught

  • DSSC 8010 - MacArthur Doctoral Research Workshop
  • WoSt 3003 - Gender and Global Politics
  • WoSt 3406 - Gender, Labor and Politics
  • WoSt 4103 and 5104 - International Feminist Theories
  • WoSt 4107 - Research Methods
  • WoSt 5400 - Feminist Approaches to Ethnography
  • WoSt 8109 - Feminist Theory and Methods
  • WoSt 8401 and Geog 8980 - Gender, Space and Resistance
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