Jasbir Puar joins us from the University of California at Berkeley where she completed her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies with an Emphasis on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in December 1999. She also has an M.A. in Women's Studies from the University of York, England, and a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University. In her doctoral dissertation she focused on the relationships between globalization, gender and sexuality, specifically doing fieldwork in Trinidad on the relationships between Afro and Indo Trinidadians within gay and lesbian communities.
Last year she was awarded a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center through the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, where she began a new project on queer tourism. Her teaching and research interests include queer theory, transnational feminisms and sexualities, South Asian diaspora studies, and tourism studies, and she has published several articles on queer diasporas and South Asian diasporic cultural productions.
One last thing - I really feel fortunate and happy to be back at Rutgers. It's a privilege to be able to evaluate my undergrad years from this perspective and with this knowledge to influence education here."

Sexuality and Space: Queering Geographies of Globalization
February 27, 2001- New York City
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