Priti Ramamurthy

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Priti Ramamurthy is an American political economist. She is currently a professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Her work focuses upon social reproduction and makes a feminist analysis of commodity chains.

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Career

Ramamurthy started her research at 16, when she volunteered for the NGO Mother and Child Healthcare and was sent to a poor village in Andhra Pradesh, India, to make a survey. [1] Her PhD research was on canal irrigation in South India, then she wrote Managing irrigation: Analyzing and improving the performance of bureaucracies with Norman Uphoff and Roy Steiner in 1991. [1] [2] [3] She worked at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, then joined the University of Washington in 1998. From 2007 onwards, she was the director of the South Asia Center. [1] She is currently professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. [4]

Ramamurthy's work focuses upon social reproduction and makes a feminist analysis of commodity chains. She is a political economist. [5] [1] In 2008, she published a co-edited volume entitled The Modern Girl around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization on Duke University Press. [6] Ramamurthy was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Award in 2017 which enabled her to study in India for nine months, in partnership with Ambedkar University. [7]

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  4. "Join us for a lecture by Priti Ramamurthy at the RC21 annual conference – "'Delhi' of Dostis (Friends): What Kind of Brotherhood?"". Antipode Online. 16 September 2019. Archived from the original on 6 December 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
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  6. Kim, Sonja (2011). "Review of The Modern Girl around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization". Journal of World History. 22 (2): 411–415. ISSN   1045-6007. JSTOR   23011736.
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