Contact:

 

Phone
(503) 725-2390

Email
pkandasw@pdx.edu

 

Priya Kandaswamy

Priya Kandaswamy is an assistant professor of women's studies at Portland State University. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Domestic Contradictions: Forced Labor and Gendered Citizenship from Reconstruction to Workfare” that looks comparatively at historical and contemporary efforts of the U.S. welfare state to regulate women of color’s labor and sexuality.

Priya Kandaswamy will be participating in the Roundtable discussions on Friday, April 17th at 3:00 p.m.

Select Publications

“State Austerity and the Racial Politics of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States,” Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society 11.6 (2008): 707-26.

“Beyond Colorblindness and Multiculturalism: Rethinking Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the University Classroom,” Radical Teacher 80 (2008): 6-11.

“Innocent Victims and Brave New Laws: State Protection and the Battered Women’s Movement,” in Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity,” edited by M. B. Sycamore, Emeryville: Seal, 2006: 83-94.