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

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

, and a key figure in the academic discipline of

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

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

feminist theory Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or Philosophy, philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's Gender role, social roles, experiences, intere ...

; feminism and

human rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...

;

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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 professor emerita of American Studies at University of California at Davis, and a figure in the academic discipline of women's studies. Together with Inderpal Grewal, Kaplan has worked as a founder of the field of transnational fe ...

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

cultural studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

transnational feminism Transnational feminism refers to both a contemporary feminist paradigm and the corresponding activist movement. Both the theories and activist practices are concerned with how globalization and capitalism affect people across nations, races, g ...

. 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

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 ...

., and blogs about gender issues for the ''

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''. Before her appointment at Yale, she taught at the

University of California at Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 ...

and at

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a Public university, public research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is ...

. Prof. Grewal has a Ph.D. in

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from the

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and an M.A. from

Punjab University Punjab University may refer to: India * Punjab Agricultural University, a state agricultural university in Ludhiana, Punjab * I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, a state university in Kapurthala, Punjab * Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Techn ...

. She was the valedictorian of her high school class at St. Agnes' School in

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Recent publications

Inderpal Grewal, 'Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First Century America,' Duke University Press, 2017 * 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)

Notes

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
- Pembroke Center, Brown University {{DEFAULTSORT:Grewal, Inderpal Yale University faculty Living people American academics of women's studies Year of birth missing (living people)