Articles
Article: Three Faculty Awarded Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Title
Article: Connecticut Public Radio: From Bangladesh to Bengali Harlem and Hartford Stage, a conversation with actor and playwright Alaudin Ullah
Talks
Jan 17, 2023: Feminist Autoethnographies during COVID-19.
Invited talk by Doing Sociology (India).
December 15, 2022: International Migrants Day Event organized by UNDP and IOM
Migrant pathways, human security and trafficking with invited experts (Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut, Alexander Betts, University of Oxford; Jane Suiter, Dublin City University, Francois Crépeau, McGill University
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuMchCKJJ6Y
March 2022: Understanding Migration, Migrants, and Human Security with an Emphasis on Asia.
Invited talk at UCLA’s Asia Center, https://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/event/15396
April 2021 Faith and Religion, in Our Stories with Khyati Joshi. South Asian American Digital Archives. SAADA.org
November 2020: Talk on Anti-racism and struggle for social justice in the United States
https://www.fmsh.fr/en/projects/anti-racism-and-struggle-social-justice-united-states
October 19, 2020. “Sociology Speaks: Experts Explain the Executive Order on Race and Sex Stereotyping”
American Sociological Association’s webinar with invited distinguished experts (Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan, Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut and Shelley Correll, Stanford University). https://www.asanet.org/news-events/asa-news/sociology-speaks-experts-explain-executive-order-combating-race-and-sex-stereotyping
Interviews
May 2023 Interview with Bandana Purkayastha and Akshayaa Chittibabu ’19
Alumna Akshayaa Chittibabu ’19 (CLAS) and her undergraduate advisor, Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology Bandana Purkayastha, discuss how one late night phone call accelerated their connection toward a family-like bond that they still share today
January 2023 Ek Women Interview with Notable South Asian American women—biographical journey.
March 22,22 CT Public Radio
Divided We Stand: the pandemic in the US. April 15, 2020. Invited contribution https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/openmovements/divided-we-stand-the-pandemic-in-the-us/
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India, Doing Sociology, invited series: on Gender and Transnationalism
Women on the Move: Female Migrants and Health. 2017. World Health Organization. Served on the original global committee 2015-2016; invited member, global expert reviewers of the report and policy (2016-2017). https://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/knowledge/women-on-the-move/en/
Invisible Americans: Refugees from Burma/Myanmar and Bhutanese in the United States, report by Chia Youyee Vang and Monica Mong Trieu. 2014. (B. Purkayastha: invited reviewer & Member of the Editorial Review Board).
Adur, Shweta and Purkayastha, Bandana. 2012. South Asian Americans. Entry in Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education, edited by James Banks. Sage Publications.
Purkayastha, Bandana and Ray, Ranita. 2009. South Asian Americans. Entry in Greenwood Encyclopedia on Contemporary Asian American Issues, edited by Edith Chen, Wendy Ng, and Peter Chua. Greenwood Press. (invited)
Gurbuz, Mustafa and Purkayastha, Bandana. 2008. From Gandhi to Gulen: The Habitus of Non-aggressive Action. Conference Proceedings: Islam in the Age of Global Challenges, Alternative Perspectives of the Gulen Movement, Washington DC: Rumi Forum, pp.267-287 (refereed)..
Purkayastha, Bandana. 2008. Ethnicity, negotiating. Entry in Encyclopedia on Race, Ethnicity, Society. Edited by Richard Schaefer. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. (invited)
Purkayastha, Bandana. 2005. Panethnicity: Processes, Institutionalization, and Linkages. Occasional Papers. Department of History. Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, India.
Purkayastha, Bandana. 2004. Series Editor for Asian Americans in Connecticut, Census 2000. Storrs: AASI. (Volumes 3,1: Race, Ethnicity Household and Family; Volume, 2: Citizenship, Income, Poverty, Employment and Education).
UNDP & IOM international Migrants Day 12/15/22
Doing Sociology: Gender & Transnationalism
Feminist Autoethnographies during COVID-19
Divided We Stand – The Pandemic in the US
SWS Press Release: Congratulations 2018 SWS Feminist Mentoring Award Winner
Election 2016:
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