Roksana Badruddoja
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Sociology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Dr. Roksana Badruddoja (she/they) is a tenured Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Manhattan University. Their scholarship and teaching are grounded in decolonial feminist, womanist, and critical race traditions, with a focus on power, belonging, gender, and intergenerational memory.
Dr. Badruddoja’s research examines contemporary social inequalities through the lived experiences and narratives of marginalized communities, treating these voices as sites of knowledge and critical insight rather than objects of study. Their work engages questions of cultural identity, migration, violence, resistance, and the social meanings of space and place—particularly how power and vulnerability are produced, contested, and remembered across generations.
They teach courses on decolonial and womanist research methods; women of color in the United States; race and resistance; gender, sexuality, and violence; social inequalities; and decolonial feminist activism. Their pedagogy emphasizes ethical inquiry, reflexivity, and the relationship between scholarship and responsibility.
Dr. Badruddoja is the author of National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity (Brill/Haymarket, forthcoming). They are also the editor of “New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable) (Demeter Press, 2016), and a contributor to Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian Daughters in Obedience and Rebellion (Aunt Lute Books, 2016).
Across their work, Dr. Badruddoja is committed to understanding how histories of harm and survival shape present-day social life, and to exploring what it means to act with care, accountability, and solidarity in relation to marginalized communities.
SOC 201 – Introduction to Sociology
SOC 150 – Roots: Sociology
SOC 153 – Roots: Sociology – First-Year Seminar
SOC 302 – Race and Resistance
SOC 290 – Codes of Gender
SOC 304 – Social Inequalities
SOC 306 – The Family
SOC 315 – Special Topics in Sociology
SOC 352 – Advanced Qualitative Methods
SOC 416 – Seminar in Sociology
Intergenerational family trauma and social memory
Gender, race, and power in everyday life
Migration, belonging, and diasporic identity
Violence, vulnerability, and survival across generations
Decolonial feminist and womanist methodologies
Narrative, lived experience, and ethical approaches to social research
Space, place, and the social meanings of home, displacement, and return
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books & Edited Volumes
Badruddoja, R. National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2022.
Badruddoja, R. (Ed.). “New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable). Toronto: Demeter Press, 2016.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Badruddoja, R. (2022). “Bones of the Womb: Healing Algorithms of BIPOC Reproductive Trauma with Ritual, Ceremonies, and Ancestral Memory.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 37, 619–641.
Badruddoja, R. (2022). “The Fantasy of ‘Home’: Locating Dislocation, Loss, and Silence.” Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, 22(1).
Badruddoja, R. (2019). “Time, History, and Memory: Bongobondhu and the Birthing of Bangladeshi National Counter-Memories.” South Asian Review, 40(4), 290–304.
Badruddoja, R. (2014). “Third World Woman, Family, and Marriage: South Asian Diasporic Fiction as Nation-Building.” South Asian Review, 35(2), 81–104.
Badruddoja, R. (2008). “Queer Spaces, Places, and Gender.” Feminist Formations, 20(2), 156–188.
Badruddoja, R. (2006). “Resisting the White Pole: Second-Generation South Asian American Women and Racialization Projects.” International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 32(1), 19–60.
Book Chapters
Badruddoja, R. (2023). “The Myth of the Universal Woman: White Feminist Fantasy and the Invisibility of Violence Against Women of Color.” In International Responses to Domestic Violence (2nd ed.). Routledge.
Badruddoja, R. (2020). “Hyperemesis Gravidarum: What to Expect When You Are Expecting…NOT!” In Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Health Care Disparities. Emerald Publishing.
Badruddoja, R. (2016). “The Fantasy of Normative Motherhood.” In Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion. Aunt Lute Books.