Congratulations to Professor and CLAS Associate Dean, Bandana Purkayastha, for receiving the honor of being named one UConn’s Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors!
Bandana Purkayastha
Bandana Purkayastha: Where We Live
Check out Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies Bandana Purkayastha on CT’s Public Radio “From Bangladesh to Bengali Harlem and Hartford Stage, a conversation with actor and playwright Alaudin Ullah.” Listen Here
Bandana Purkayastha: Decolonial Perspectives | Oct. 29
Check out Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies, Bandana Purkayastha, at the upcoming event: “Decolonial Perspectives: Reclaiming our Rights as People in the Global South” on October 29th, 2021
Bandana Purkaystha: Analyzing Gender
Check out Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies, Bandana Purkaystha, in the upcoming series “Analyzing Gender: Global Encounters” on September 6th &13th at 5:00pm.
Bandana Purkayastha: Joshi Lecture
Check out Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies Bandana Purkayastha’s recent lecture on the Joshi Foundation.
Bandana Purkayastha: “These Were Haunting Events”
An interdisciplinary team of researchers, including UConn Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American studies Bandana Purkayastha, is developing a set of research tools that will help understand the multiple dimensions of precarity faced by migrant workers, and to recommend ways that policymakers can ease those burdens. The two-year project is funded by the […]
Bandana Purkayastha: Experts Explain the Executive Order on Race and Sex Stereotyping
Bandana Purkayastha (University of Connecticut) along with Shelley Correll (Stanford University) and Karyn Lacy (University of Michigan) will be holding a discussion on the article Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. Where they’ll be talking further about the ideas articulated in executive order. Register for the free webinar here. Among the first of […]
Race, Gender & Transnationalism through the Intersectional Framework
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcQvPIDUz3Q
Bandana Purkayastha: Pandemics and Migrant Precarity
Soma Chaudhuri (Sociology, Michigan State University, PI), Elizabeth Chacko (Geography, George Washington University, Co-PI), Bandana Purkayastha (Sociology & AASI, Co-PI) along with S. Anandhi (History, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India), Anand Venkatesh (Economics, Institute for Rural Management, India), Paromita Sanyal. (Sociology, Florida State University), and Jaita Talukdar (Sociology, Loyola University, New Orleans) have been […]
Bandana Purkayastha Awards and Honors
Bandana Purkayastha is Professor of Sociology and Asian & Asian American Studies. She served as Head, Sociology, at the University of Connecticut (UCONN) from 2011-2016 Leadership. Her current research interests focus on human rights/human security, migration and migrants, intersectionality, and violence. Her earlier research on ethnicity, racism, gender, violence and peace has been published in many […]