Monisha Das Gupta
Professor
Department of Ethnic Studies and
Department of Women's Studies
Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
A sociologist by training, I got my PhD in Sociology at Brandeis University
in 1999. At UHM, I have enjoyed bringing an interdisciplinary approach
to my research and teaching. In 2013, I received the UHM Chancellor's
award for teaching. My research, writing and teaching are further
enriched by my day-to-day involvement in the immigrant rights movement and
the labor movement.
Areas of Research and Teaching
Migration, Social
Movements, Asian American Studies, Intersectionality, Trasnational
Feminism, Qualitative Methods
Fall 2018 Course
WS/SOC/ES 418, Women and Work
Selected
Publications
Unruly
Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics
in the United States (Duke University Press, 2006)
* Winner of the 2008 the American Sociological Association Section on Asia
and Asian America Book Award
* Winner of the 2008 Association of Asian American Studies Best Book in
Social Sciences Award
- "Turning Points: South Asian Feminist Responses to Intimate Violence
and
Immigration Enforcement" co-authored with Soniya Munshi. In Our
Voices, Our Lives: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women’s History,
edited by Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura. Under contract with New York
University Press. (Accepted)
- "ʻBroken Hearts, Broken Families': The Political Uses of Families in
the Fight Against Deportation." In Introduction to Women's, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies edited by L. Ayu Saraswati and Barbara
Shaw. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 239-243. (2017)
- "Shadowed Lives: Invisibility and Visibility of Mexicans in Hawaiʻi."
In Transpacific Americas: Encounters
and Engagement with the Americas and South Pacific edited by
Eveline Durr and Philipp Schorch. Routledge, pp. 43-63. (2016)
- Mexican Migration to Hawaiʻi and U.S. Settler Colonialism with Sue P.
Haglund. Latino Studies 13(4):
455-480. (2015)
- "Don't Deport Our Daddies": Gendering State Deportation Practices and
Immigrant Organizing. Gender
& Society 28(1): 83-109. (2014)
- Newcomers
to the Aloha State: Challenges and Prospects of Mexicans in Hawaiʻi
with Jeanne Batalova and Sue P. Haglund. Migration Policy Institute
(2013)
See all publications
Current Research Project:
Book Project on anti-deportation organizing in the United States.
Recently Taught Courses
- ES 101: Introduction to Ethnic Studies
- WS/ES 390: Race and Gender in U.S. Society
- SOC/WS/ES 418, Women and Work