Steering Committee
Susan Wadley
Professor, Anthropology
Co-Director, Gender and Globalization
Susan Wadley is Professor of Anthropology at the Maxwell School. Her research interests include oral traditions and folklore, women's status issues, and social change in rural India. Recently, she has studied gender and performance issues concerning the north Indian epic called Dhola, and she has also studied female neglect and the mortality of women and female children in rural India. Her books include Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 (University of California Press, 1994), a study of social change in a single Indian village over six decades. ...More>>
Cecilia Van Hollen
Assistant Professor , Anthropology
Co-Director, Gender and Globalization
As a cultural anthropologist, my primary interests are in medical anthropology, gender, development, and nationalism in South Asia, especially India. My past research has focused on women’s reproductive health and rituals during childbirth and my current research explores the impact of HIV/AIDS in India. My work combines theoretical insights into the construction of health, medicine and the body and an engagement with health and gender policy. ...More>>
Andrew S. London
Associate Professor , Sociology
Co-Director, Gender and Globalization
Andrew is working with the Center for Policy Research. ...More>>
