Since July 2011, I have been honored to join the faculty of distinguished, highly regarded Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in the role of Department Chair. This large, vibrant department attracts excellent, dedicated scholars and educators — students, faculty, and visiting international scholars, among others — who are interested in curriculum and teaching, theory, research, policy, practice and engagement in relation to such areas as: Art Education, Culture and Teaching, Elementary Education, Learning Technology, Literacy Education, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Second Languages and Cultures, Social Studies Education, and STEM Education. I am also an Affiliate Faculty member of the Department of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
My own scholarship focuses on postcolonial and feminist theory, globalization, critical perspectives on multiculturalism, and Asian American Studies in relation to education. I am thrilled to have received a 2014-15 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award (Research) from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, D.C. for my research project, Examining the Intersections of Globalization, Privatization, and Education after two decades of Economic Liberalization in India. Over the past decade, I have developed and taught such courses as “Postcolonialism and Feminism in Education,” “Globalization, Multiculturalism, and Education,” and “Gender, Race, and Nation.” My numerous service commitments to the field include serving as Book Review Editor for both the NWSAJ (National Women’s Studies Association Journal, now Feminist Formations) from 2007-2009 and the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education from 2007-to date, Chair of the Nominations Committee of the Curriculum Studies Division (Division B) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2011-12 and Chair of the Nominating Committee of AERA’s Teaching and Teacher Education Division (Division K), 2013-14.