Bandana Purkayastha

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 […]

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 […]