MICRO-BIO

• I am by positionality an educated woman of white-Australia, a child of colonialism, born and raised on land stolen from Indigenous peoples. Today I am a critical feminist anthropologist, but my trajectory has been circuitous: my mother's death at a...More

  I am by positionality an educated woman of white-Australia, a child of colonialism, born and raised on land stolen from Indigenous peoples. Today I am a critical feminist anthropologist, but my trajectory has been circuitous: my mother's death at a young age, violence in my home-life, and the intensity of my engineering business career, have all been formative of the feminist I have become. Have all been formative in my commitment to ethics, transparency and collaborative knowledge creation. It is however my passion for South Asia, and the mind-exploding work I have discovered during my research to date, that are formative of the woman I am still becoming. I am by sensibility a feminist committed to mobilising my privilege and my heart to support socially marginalised Indian women in achieving their aspirations for social change and justice. I believe it behoves us as anthropologists to increase research and vigorous theoretical engagement in the study of agency within the context of the intersection of religion and gender. I say this, having learned from the work of Dr Saba Mahmood, and reflecting that we live in a time when prominent politicised reductionist depictions paint religion as irrational, while gender concerns are denigrated. It is my conviction as a feminist anthropologist that we have an obligation to create a space into which different truths can be spoken.

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EXPERIENCE

• University of Chicago

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  • 2018 to Present

• International Fieldwork

  • Gender and Business planning advisor
  • Exploring Development Complexities
  • June 2017 to July 2017

• Mitacs Globalink

  • Research Intern
  • Université de Montréal
  • June 2016 to September 2016

• Professional Engineering Contracting Companies

  • Client and Proposal Manager
  • Mining and Resources Industry
  • 1992 to 2014

EDUCATION

• University of Chicago

  • Masters of Arts program in Social Science
  • September 2018 to Present

  About to commence an MA in Social Science with a focus on Cultural Anthropology

• University of Queensland

  • Bachelor of Arts
  • February 2014 to December 2017

  Extended Major in Anthropology, Minor in Gender Studies (GPA: 6.96/7.0). Research focused at the nexus of gender and religion, particularly focused on South Asian women who live in situations of socially constructed precarity.

• Monash University

  • Bachelor of Engineering
  • February 1986 to December 1991

  Graduated in Chemical Engineering with Honours

Interests

• Gender And Food Systems

• Gender Justice

• South Asia

• Critical Feminist Anthropology

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