Inderpal Grewal is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, and a key figure in the academic discipline of

women's studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...

. She is an influential feminist scholar whose research interests include transnational and postcolonial

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; feminism and

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;

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and theories of

civil society Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.Caren Kaplan Caren Kaplan is a professor of American Studies at University of California at Davis, and a prominent figure in the academic discipline of women's studies. Together with Inderpal Grewal, Kaplan is best known for her work as a founder of the field ...

, Grewal is best known for her work as a founder of the field of transnational feminist

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. She has served on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of core journals in the field of feminist cultural studies,

Women's Studies Quarterly ''Women's Studies Quarterly'', often referred to as ''WSQ'', is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal of women's studies that was established in 1972 and published by The Feminist Press. The Feminist Press was founded by Florence Howe in 1970. ...

; ''Jouvert: Journal of Postcolonial Studies'' and '' Meridians: feminisms, race, transnationalism''. She is also one of three series editors for the ''New Wave in Women's Studies'' book series published by

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., and blogs about gender issues for the ''

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''.Grewal's Huffington Post Blog: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inderpal-grewal/ Before her appointment at Yale, she taught at the

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and at

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. Prof. Grewal has a

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from the

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and an M.A. from Punjab University. She was the valedictorian of her high school class at St. Agnes' School in

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Recent publications

* Inderpal Grewal, ''Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms''. Durham:

, 2005 * Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal, ''An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World'', McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, September 25, 2001 (Second edition 2005) * Inderpal Grewal, ''Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Culture of Travel''. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997) * Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal, ''Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices'', (Univ of Minnesota Press, 1994)

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Videos of Inderpal Grewal

2007 Keynote address at the Duke Feminist Theory WorkshopInderpal Grewal on a feminist panel on transnational feminism and terrorismInderpal Grewal on a panel: "Liberalism and its others"2011 Lecture at UCLA
at Brandeis University in 2013

External links

* Inderpal Grewal's blog for th
Huffington Post
*
Where are India's missing girls
" an Op-ED by Inderpal Grewal
Inderpal Grewal papers
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