Education:
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Florida - 2009 (Sociology, with Ph.D. concentration in Women's and Gender Studies)
M.A., University of Florida - 2006 (Sociology)
M.S.W., University of Mumbai, India - 2003 (Social Work)
B.A., University of Mumbai, India - 2001 (Sociology)
Areas of Expertise:
Gender, families, work, immigration/migration; South Asians/Asian Indians, race/cthnicity, qualitative methodology, feminist theory and methodology.
Books and Publications
"Mothering for Class & Ethnicity: The Case of Indian Professional Immigrants in the United States." Advances in Gender Research: Notions of Family. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
Manohar, Namita N., Dana Berkowitz, JeffriAnne Wilder and Justine E. Tinkler. "Photovoice: A Critical Pedagogical Activity in the Sociology Classroom." Currents in Teaching and Learning 5.1. In press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
"Introduction: Women and Economics -- A Study of the Economic Relations Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman." People, Power and Politics 11th ed. Boston: Pearson. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
Manohar, Namita N. and Erika Busse-Cardenas. "Valuing 'Good' Motherhood in Migration: The Experiences of Indian Professional Wives in America and Peruvian Working-Class Wives Left Behind in Peru." Journal of the Motherhood Initiative 2.2: 176-96. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Berkowitz, Dana, Namita N. Manohar and Justine Tinkler. "Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Woman: Teaching the Social Construction of Gender." Teaching Sociology 38, April: 132-43. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
"Arranged Marriages, Semi-Arranged Marriages, and Love Marriages." Battleground: The Family. Ed. K. Brackett. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 33-40. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009
"'Sshh . . .!!! Don't Tell My Parents': Dating Among Second-Generation Patels in Florida." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 39.4: 571-88. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
"Gender & Ethnicity in Union Formation: The Case of Second-Generation Patels." The International Journal of Sociology of the Family, Special Issue on Intersectional Analyses of the Family for the 21st Century, 34.2. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
William Stewart Travel Award, CUNY Academy. (Awards and Honors) 2012
Faculty Fellowship Publications Program. Office of the Dean for Recruitment and Diversity. CUNY. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
Faculty Travel Award, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
New Faculty Fund Grant, for "Life at the Crossroads: Queering South Asian-ness in America." (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Photovoice: A Critical Pedagogical Activity in the Sociology Classroom." Eastern Sociological Society. Boston. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Mothering for Class & Ethnicity: The Case of Indian Professional Immigrants in the United States." 1st International Family and Consumer Sciences Congress. Antalaya, Turkey. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Support Networks, Cultural Spaces, and Fictive Kin: Indian Immigrant Women Constructing Community in the United States." Eastern Sociological Society. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Resistance and Reconfigurations: A Gendered Settlement Narrative of Tamil Immigrant Women in Atlanta." American Sociological Association. Las Vegas. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Bargaining for Migration: The Gendered Strategizing of Migration by Tamil Women in Atlanta." Panel on Gender & Immigration. American Sociological Association. Atlanta. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Food, Music & Dance: Reinterpretations of Motherhood by Tamil Immigrant Professional Women in Atlanta." Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"Professional, Wife, Mother: The Three Faces of Femininity of Immigrant Tamil Professional Women in Atlanta." Eastern Sociological Society. Boston. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
Wilder, JeffriAnne, Collen Cain and Namita N. Manohar. "Panel on Researching Your Own: Engaging Difficult Dialogues on Power, Emotions, Ethics & Reflexivity." National Women's Studies Association. Atlanta. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009