Courses Regularly Taught

WS151: Introduction to Women's Studies
WS/ES 390:Gender and Race in U.S. Society
WS/SOC/ES 418: Women and Work [sample syllabus]
WS 615/POLS 615c:Feminist Theory

Research Areas

Das Gupta's areas of specialization are migration, globalization, U.S. race relations, and social movements. She approaches each of these areas through a transnational feminist perspective and a postcolonial lens. Her involvement in multiracial feminist activism in the United States and her life as a transmigrant are central to her academic work. Das Gupta grew up in Kolkata, India, and did her undergraduate work in Geography at Loreto College. On coming to the United States for graduate studies, she became deeply interested in understanding immigrant experiences. She received her doctorate in Sociology at Brandeis University in 1999.

Representative Publications

Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and transational South Asian Politics in the United States. Durham: Duke University Press (Forthcoming).

"Bewildered: Women's Studies and the war on terror" (Forthcoming)

"Of hardship and hostility: The impact of 9/11 on New York City taxi drivers"

"The neoliberal state and the domestic workers' movement in New York City." (2003)

"'What is Indian about you?': A gendered, transnational approach to ethnicity." (1997)