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Ritty Lukose

Associate Professor
ral13@nyu.edu
(212) 992-7754
610 - 1 Wash Pl

Office Hours
Tuesday By Appt: 2:00-6:00

B.A., Economics, University of Chicago, 1989
M.A., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1992
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2001

Ritty Lukose's teaching and research interests explore the relations between culture, politics, and economy as they manifest themselves in discourses and practices of gender across the varied terrain of globalization, especially as they impact contemporary South Asia. With a background in anthropology, she is currently interested in the relationship between Western, global and non-Western feminisms. Professor Lukose's research has been funded by the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Fulbright Program, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Academy of Education, and she has published several book chapters and articles on this research in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, Social History, Social Analysis, and Anthropology, and Education Quarterly. Her book, Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India, was published by Duke University Press in 2009 and co-published in India by Orient Blackswan in 2010. A co-edited book, South Asian Feminisms was published by Duke University Press (2012) and Zubaan, a leading feminist press in India. She teaches courses on globalization, India/South Asia, sex/gender and feminisms within global contexts, and ethnography.  

Edited Volumes

2012

South Asian Feminisms

Ritty Lukose and Ania Loomba's edited volume South Asian Feminisms was published by Duke University Press.

Books

2009

Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India

Ritty Lukose's Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India was published by Duke University Press.

Teaching and Research Interests

gender  globalization  colonial  postcolonial and diasporic modernities; youth  education  development  mass media; feminisms  South Asia and its diasporas; political  cultural and social theory 

Recent News

In the fall of 2018, Ritty Lukose contributed “Decolonizing Feminism in the #MeToo Era” to The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (Volume 36, fall 2018; Andrew Sanchez, editor), part of a special issue, Canon Fire: Decolonizing the Curriculum.
 

Ritty Lukose