Roksana Badruddoja

• Women’s and Gender Studies and Feminist Theory
• South Asian American Studies
• Critical Race Theory and Ethnic Studies
• Queer Studies
• Post-Colonial Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Citizenship and Nationalism
• Feminist Ethnography
• Mother Studies

REFEREED/PEER-REVIEWED WORK  

I. Refereed/Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

(1) Badruddoja, R. (2014). “Third World Woman: Family, And Marriage: South Asian Diasporic Fiction As A Site For Consolidation Of The American Nation-State.” South Asian Review, 35:2, 81-104.  

(2) Badruddoja, R. (2008, Summer). “Queer Spaces, Places, and Gender: The Tropologies of Rupa and Ronica.” Feminist Formations (formerly known as National Women’s Studies Association Journal or NWSAJ), 20:2,156-88. (Outstanding Faculty Publication of the Year, Spring 2009, Fresno State)

(3) Badruddoja, R. (2008, Spring). The Yonic Myths of Motherhood: An Autoethnography. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative of Research and Community Involvement (JMIRCI) (formerly known as Association for Research on Mothering or JARM), Special Edition: Caregiving and Carework: Theory and Practice), 10.1,57-65. 

II. Invited Referred/Peer-Reviewed Anthology Chapter

(1) Badruddoja, R. (2016). “Holidays in America for South Asian Women" (Tourism Essentials series). In Asian Genders and Tourism. Khoo-Lattimore, Catheryn (ed.). Bristol, U.K.: Channel View Publications. 

III. Refereed/Peer-Reviewed Anthology 

(1) Badruddoja, R (1^st ed.) and Motapanyane, Maki (2^nd ed.). “New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable). Toronto, Canada: Demeter Press.

(1) Badruddoja, R. (2016). “The Fantasy of Normative Motherhood.” In Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion. Bhattacharya, Piyali (ed.). San Francisco: CA: Aunt Lute Books. 

II. Invited Editor-Reviewed Report 

(1) Badruddoja. R (April 2014). “South Asian-American Women: “Marrying the Traditional with the Modern” (Gender, Work, and Relationships). In Unconventional Wisdom: News You Can Use, Volume 6: A Survey of Recent Family Research and Clinical, Joshua Coleman and Stephanie Coontz (eds.). Miami, FL: Council on Contemporary Families  (CCF).

III. Editor-Reviewed Book 

(1) Badruddoja, R. (2012). Eyes of the Storms: The Voices of South Asian-American Women (2^nd Revised Edition). San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing.

• Selected by Audible.com for audiobook distribution in November 2013 (see http://www.audible.com/pd/History/Eyes-of-the-Storms-Audiobook/B00DDY66BW/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1384805599&sr=1-1).
  
• Selected by the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) for exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art (QMA) from August to October 2012
• Selected by the South Asian Literary and Theatre Arts Festival (SALTAF) for exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in November 2011.
  

SCHOLARLY & LITERARY BOOK REVIEWS

 I. Invited Editor-Reviewed Literary Book Review 

(1) Badruddoja, R. (Jan-Feb 2014). The World In My Hands by K. Aniz Ahmed. India: Random House, 2013. 376 pp. (paperback). Northeast Review, Issue 8 (see http://northeastreview.com/2014/02/16/roksana/). 

II. Invited Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Book Review 

(1) Badruddoja, R. (2010). Dowry, Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, edited by Tamsin Bradley, Emma Tomalin, and Mangala Subramaniam (2009), London & New York: Zed Books Limited. Gender & Society, Vol. XX, No. X: 1-3.

CREATIVE EDITOR-REVIEWED WORK

I. Invited Editor-Reviewed Book Prologue 

(1) Badruddoja, R. (2014). “Invisible Identities: Bringing the Voices of the Women of Katakhali to the Center” (translated in Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta). Pgs. 66-68 in Her Words: Storytelling with Saris. Bose, Monica J. (ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Samhati.

II. Editor-Reviewed Article in Literary & Art E-Magazine

(1) Badruddoja, R. (June 1, 2015). “The Invisibility and Marginality of Motherwork.” In Mothers Are Making Art (MAMA). Rose, Martha Joy (ed.). New York, NY: Museum

 of Motherhood (M.O.M.) (In partnership with Procreate Project) (see http://mommuseum.org/the-invisibility-and-marginality-of-motherwork/). 

(2) Badruddoja, R. (2007, Winter). The Yonic Myths of Motherhood: Contesting Maternal Ideology. DesiLit Magazine, 3.

III. Editor-Reviewed Creative Anthology 

(1) Badruddoja, R. (ed.). (2015). X Does Not Mark My Spot: Voices from the South Asian Diaspora. Mumbai, India: Zubaan (Kali for Women). (The WIP manuscript was selected by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) for a book reading at the annual conference on February 29, 2012.)

EDITOR-REVIEWED COMMUNITY PUBLICATION 

I. Invited Editor-Reviewed Local Newspaper Article 

(1) Badruddoja, R. (2008, Oct-Nov). Brief History of South Asian Emigration to the U.S. Porshi, 8:7. [Annual Bangladeshi-American Community Magazine published by Bay Area Bangladeshi Association (B.A.B.A.)]

(2) Badruddoja, R. (2008, April). ’Good’ Muslim, ‘Bad’ Muslim. The Undercurrent, 2,12,19. [Local Community Newspaper, Fresno, CA]

 THE NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES

Dr. Roksana Badruddoja is a member of the 2015-2017 inaugural cohort of the The New York Council for the Humanities Public Scholars program, a highly competitive selection process that results in a 30-member group. The program seeks to form a group of individuals who want to contribute to and benefit from a statewide community of public intellectuals.

Dr. Badruddoja offers the following presentations:

1. The Fantasy of Normative Motherhood: The Myths of Motherwork & Contesting Maternal Ideology

2. South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Project of Empire and Consolidation of the American Nation-State

3. South Asian American Women: Rupturing the “Third World Woman” and the Meanings of “Arranged Marriage”

To request Dr. Badruddoja as a New York Council for the Humanities Public Scholar speaker for an event, please click here.

COUNCIL ON CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES

The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. A central purpose of CCF is to help the media find experts in various arenas of family research and practice (see “Find an Expert“).

Dr. Badruddoja is a former member of the Board of Directors (2013-2015) and is available to the media as an expert in Asian American Families:

Badruddoja. R (2014). “South Asian-American Women: “Marrying the Traditional with the Modern” (Gender, Work, and Relationships). In Unconventional Wisdom: News You Can Use, Volume 6: A Survey of Recent Family Research and Clinical, Joshua Coleman and Stephanie Coontz (eds.). 2014 Unconventional Wisdom V.6

To request Dr. Badruddoja as a Council on Contemporary Families Expert speaker for an event, please click here.

SAMPLE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Invited Keynote Speaker

“Worn Out! Motherwork in the Age of Austerity,” key note speaker at the annual Women’s History Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, March 6-7, 2015, Bronxville, NY.

Invited Speaker

“The Fantasy of Normative Motherhood,” a talk at the annual meeting of the Museum of Motherhood, April 30-May 2, 2015, Bronx, NY.

“Gender-Queering the South Asian Diaspora: Challenging Normative Spatial Powers,” a lecture and workshop at the annual meeting of the Muslim GLBTQ Retreat, May 23-26, 2014, Philadelphia, PA.

Maternal Ideology & State Control of Women’s Bodies,” a talk at the annual meeting of the Museum of Motherhood, March 6-8, 2014, New York, NY.

“Queering South Asians,” a lecture at Trikone’s DesiQ 2013, University of California San Francisco Mission Bay, July 4-6, 2013, San Francisco, CA.

“Immigrant Families as They Really Are: South Asian-American Women and the Tropes of Intimate Partnership,” a guest speaker at the 16th annual meeting of the Council on Contemporary Families, April 5-6, 2013, University of Miami, FL.

“Eyes of the Storms: Voices of South Asian-American Women,” a book talk at the Women and Gender Studies Brown Bag Series, November 6, 2013, Manhattan College, Bronx, NY.

“Eyes of the Storms: The Voices of South Asian-American Women,” a book reading at the annual South Asian Literary and Theatre Arts Festival, National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution, November 4-5, 2012 Washington DC (Event sponsored by the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History & Embassy of India, Washington, D.C.; panelists included Nina Godiwalla, author of Suits, and Aatish Taseer, author of Noon).

“Eyes of the Storms: Voices of South Asian-American Women,” a book reading at the 15th anniversary exhibit of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, Queens Museum of Art, August 11, 2012, Queens, NY (Exhibit Dates: August 11, 2012–October 7, 2012).

“From Backpack 2 Briefcase: A Professional How-To For Women,” a guest speaker at Fresno State, April 29, 2012, Fresno, CA.

“Navigating the Professional Opportunities Maze: Women in the Workplace,” a guest speaker at the American Association of Bangladeshi Engineers & Architects, Stanford University, December 6, 2010, Palo Alto, CA.

“South Asian Americans Negotiating Queer Identities,” a paper presentation at the Central Valley Cultural Heritage Institute, Fresno State, April 28, 2009, Fresno, CA.

“Racial and Ethnic Imaginary: Barack Obama and the Meanings of Blackness,” a guest lecture at the Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, January 10, 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

Paper Presentations  

“South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Project of Empire and Consolidation of the American Nation-State,” a paper presentation at the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, November 12-15, 2015, Milwaukee, WI.

“Rupturing the ‘Third-World-Woman’ and Arranged Marriage,” a paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, February 27-29, 2015, Manhattan, NY. (Also Session Presider.)

“Mothering, Love, and Labor: New Feminist Perspectives,” a paper presentation at the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, November 13-16, 2014, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

“The South Asian Diaspora & Queer Spaces: Challenging Normative Spatial Powers” & “Contesting Motherhood, Mothering, and Maternal Ideology,” paper presentations at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, February 20-23, 2014, Baltimore, MD.

“Contesting Maternal Ideology: The Yonic Myths of Motherhood” & “Decolonizing the South Asian Diaspora,” paper presentations at the winter annual meeting of the Sociologist for Women in Society, February 6-9, 2014, Nashville, TN.

“Diasporic Fiction: Project of Empire and Consolidation of the Nation-State,” a paper presentation at the annual meeting of the South Asian Literary Association, January 8-9, 2014, Chicago, IL.

“Symbolic Pollution: Towards a Formal Sociological and Feminist Perspective on Menstruation,” a paper presentation at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association & “Bittersweet Voices: Decolonizing the South Asian Diaspora,” a paper presentation at the Sociologists for Women in Society at ASA, August 10-13, 2013, New York, NY.

“Performing Motherhood and Maternal Ideologies,” a paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Museum of Motherhood, May 2-4, 2013, New York, NY.

“Shifting Intimacies: A Reading by South Asian Diasporic Writers,” a book reading at the annual meeting of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, February 29-March 3, 2012, Chicago, IL.

“Queer Theory, Gender, and Race,” a panel moderator & “The Multicultural Beast,” a paper presentation at the annual meeting of the California Sociological Association, November 13-14, 2010, Riverside, CA.

“The ABCD Conundrum: Women, Marriage, and Alternative Formations of Power,” a paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Central California Research Symposium, Fresno State, April 13, 2010, Fresno, CA.

SELECTED EXPERT INTERVIEWS

EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARDS

• Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (ISSN 1488-0989) since September 2013
• Gender & Society (ISSN 0891-2432) since September 2013
• Feminist Formations (ISSN 1040-0656) since April 2008
• Scientific Journals International (ISSN 1556-6757) since May 2007

ADVISORY BOARDS

• Museum of Motherhood (M.O.M.) since 2013
• Society for Mother Studies since 2015

GOVERNING COUNCIL POSITIONS

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Sociological Association since 2000
• National Women’s Studies Association since 2003
• South Asian Literary Association since 2005
• Pacific Sociological Association from 2007-2012
• Sociologists for Women in Society since 2012
• Eastern Sociological Association since 2012
• Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association since 2013
• Council on Contemporary Families since 2013

Selected Grants

• Executive Vice President & Provost Summer Grant: Awarded $3,000 from the Office of the Executive President and Provost in Summer 2014 to conduct data analysis of ethnographic data exploring the relationship between Bangladeshi women and eco-feminism.

• Faculty Learning Community Award: One of ten Principal Investigators awarded $10,000 from the Scholarly Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CSALT) at Fresno State for in Spring 2009 for “Facilitation Student Group Learning 2.0,” a program to develop best practices in faculty pedagogical techniques in the social sciences.
• The Initiative for Women’s and Gender Equity in the San Joaquin Valley Award: One of four Principal Investigators awarded $8,000 by the College of Social Sciences at Fresno State in 2008 to conduct gender equity research in the Central Valley.
• Violence Against Women Act (VAWA): Received $4,500 in 1999 from the state of New Jersey to support the operating budget for a South Asian domestic violence advocacy group, Manavi.
• Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Grant: Received $3,200 in 1999 from the state of New Jersey to maintain a shelter, Ashiana, for South Asian victims of domestic violence.

Fluency in everyday, spoken, colloquial Bengali; Basic knowledge of Hindi and Urdu; Domestic Violence Specialist (DVS) Certified