Smita Tewari Jassal
Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor, 2008-2009
Department of Anthropology
Brandeis University
P.O. Box 549110, MS 006
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Gender studies, cultural studies, folk traditions, oral narratives, partitioned societies, South Asia
Background and Description
Smita Tewari Jassal is author of Daughters of the Earth: Women and Land in Uttar Pradesh (Manohar, New Delhi, 2001) and has co-edited with Eyal Ben-Ari The Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts (Sage, New Delhi, 2007). Her forthcoming book, Unearthing Gender, focuses on the oral, folk and narrative traditions of castes and communities of North India. Her researches combine historical, anthropological and socio-legal perspectives.
Dr. Jassal has taught Anthropology at Columbia University, at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and at the American University in Washington, D.C. Having lived and worked in Russia, India, Israel and the United States, she brings to her research and teaching a strong cross-cultural focus.
Between 2003-2005, Dr. Jassal was Visiting Fellow at the Truman Institute for Peace, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Between 1995-2002, Dr. Jassal was a Senior Fellow at a leading women’s studies research institute in India, the Center for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi. Dr. Jassal received her Ph.D in Sociology from Delhi University.
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