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AM RIT A PANDE
Lecturer, Department of Sociology
Deputy Director, Intercultural and Diversity Studies
University of Cape Town
Private Bag Rondebosch 7700
South Africa
Phone: +27-21-650-3517
E-mail: [email protected]
Updated May 20, 2011
E DUCA TI O N
PhD
Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009
Commercial Surrogacy in India: Nine Months of „Labor‟?
** Also written and performed as a play titled “Made in India”, Global Stories Production,
Denmark
M.A.
PG Diploma
M.A.
B.A.
Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006
Women‟s Studies Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies, 2006.
Economics, Delhi School of Economics, 2002
Economics, University of Delhi, 1999
A RE AS O F RE SEA RCH S PE CI ALI ZA TI O N
Globalization, Gender and work, Narratives of Migration, New reproductive technologies, Bodies and
Nations, Sociology of Family, Feminist Theory, Feminist Methods, Social Movements
P EE R RE VIEW E D P UBLI CA TI O NS A ND B OOK CHAP TE RS
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol 35, No. 4, 969-994
“Commercial Surrogacy in India: Manufacturing a Perfect „Mother-Worker‟”, 2010,
Feminist Studies, Special Issue on Reproduction and Mothering, Vol 36, No. 2, 292-312
“At least I am not sleeping with anyone”: Resisting the Stigma of Commercial Surrogacy in India,
2010
Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 32, No. 4, 379-405.
“‟It may be her eggs but it‟s my blood‟: Surrogates and Everyday Forms of Kinship in India”, 2009,
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, 141-173.
“Not an “Angel”, Not a “Whore”: Surrogates as “Dirty” Workers in India, 2009
Quest for Alternative Sociology, edited by Kenji Kosaka and Masahiro Ogino Melbourne: Trans Pacific
Press: 71-87. ISBN (hardback) 978-1-876843-92-2, (paperback) 978-1-876843-93-9
“Commercial Surrogate Mothering in India: Nine Months of Labor?”. 2008
(Japanese translation available at http://tech_health.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/index.html, Faculty of
Medicine Institute of Medical Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Japan)
Gender, Mobility and Citizenship in Asia, edited by Mikako Iwatake. Renvall Institute Publications.
University of Helsinki, Finland, ISBN 978-952-10-6365-7 ISSN 0786-6445
“Commercial Surrogates and Embodied Resistances in India”. 2009
Indian Express, one of the leading national daily newspapers in India,
“Who owns these Nine months?”, June 26, 2008.
W ORK I N P RO G RESS
Reproductive Biomedicine Online, Special Issue Cross Border Reproductive Care: Travelling for
Conception and the Global ART Market, September 2011 (forthcoming)
“Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India: Gifts for global sisters?”
Lecture-Performance by Amrita Pande and Maj-Britt, directed by Ditte Maria Bjerg, Global Stories
Production, Denmark.
“Made in India: Transnational Commercial surrogacy in India”
(First Peer reviewed performance at the plenary session of the 100 th year of the German
Sociological Congress, Frankfurt, October 2010)
Policy document for the Government of Lebanon, published by Voices International, an independent
non-profit development NGO that works for protection of vulnerable groups in Lebanon, July 2011
“I came here for work”: Migrant Domestic work and the Sponsorship system in Lebanon,
(Forthcoming)
F ELL OW SHI PS , G RANTS A ND AW ARDS
2010-2011
Social Science Research Council Mellon Book Fellowship for originality,
interdisciplinarity, and cross-regional contributions of manuscript
2010-2011
Carnegie Research Development Grant, University of Cape Town
2008-2009
International Dissertation Research Fellowship, SSRC
2008-2009
University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts
2008
Cheryl Allyn Miller Award for outstanding contribution to the field of women and work,
Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS).
2003-2004
University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts
2006
Best Professional Paper Award, Department of Sociology, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
P ROF ESS IO NAL EX PE RI E NCE
2010 -
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town
2010
Research Consultant, Migrant Domestic work and the Sponsorship system in
Lebanon, Voices International, an independent non-profit development NGO that
works for protection of vulnerable groups in Lebanon, July 2011
2006- 2008
Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Spring 2007
Research Assistant with Dr. Millie Thayer on International Donor Agencies and
Latin American Women‟s Movements, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Spring 2005
Research Assistant with Dr. Sanjiv Gupta on Women‟s work and empowerment
in India, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
2002 – 2003
Research Assistant, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India.
2001- 2002
Research assistant, Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi, India.
2000 - 2001
Reporter, Asian Age Newspaper, New Delhi, India
TE A CHING EXPE RIE NCE
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Convener
Culture and Social Life in the 21 st Century, 2nd Year Course
Contemporary Social Thought, Master‟s Level Course
Social Theory, 2nd Year Course
Lecturer
Deviance, Culture and Social Action, Master‟s Level Course
Theories in Diversity Studies, Honour‟s Level Course
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Teaching Associate
Study of Social Problems: Gender and Globalization, 2 nd Year Course
Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Sociology
Sociology of HIV/AIDS
Sociology of the Family
Drugs and Society
Social Problems
REV IEW A ND E DI TO RI AL W ORK
2010 20102003-
Advisory Editor, Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Wiley-Blackwell
Publishers.
Peer-reviewer for National Science Foundation
Reviewer for peer-reviewed journals Gender and Society, Social Forum,
Bioethics, Developing world Bioethics, Qualitative Sociology, Scholar and
Feminist Online, Feminist Economics, Contemporary South Asia, Reproductive
Biomedicine Online
I NVI TE D COLL OQ UI A
University of Cambridge, UK, December 2010
Interdisciplinary Workshop on „Reproductive Tourism‟: Travelling for Conception and the Global
ART Market
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and New York University (NYU) Press Book Fellowship
Workshop, New York, December 2010
“Caution! Brown Wombs at Work: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India”
New Trends in Labor Studies: New Workplaces, Communities and Livelihoods Workshop,
University of Cape Town, December 2010
“My body pays the monthly bills”: Embodied labor and the Politics of Surrogacy in India
German Sociological Congress, Frankfurt am Main, October 2010. Vergesellschaftungen
Made in India: A Lecture Performance on Transnational Surrogacy in India
University of Johannesburg, Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, October 2010
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Politics in Lebanon
Intercultural and Diversity Studies Seminar, University of Cape Town August 2010
It may be her eggs, but it's my sweat and blood": Labor, resistance and Surrogacy in India
Iziko SA Museum, August 2010, Iziko Museums of Cape Town
Women‟s Chain of Power in a Globalizing World, Women‟s Empowerment Conference, Education
and Public Programmes
Sama, Resource Group for Women & Health, New Delhi India, 2010
International Consultation workshop “Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies
for Movement Building”
University of California, Davis, November 2009.
“Motherhood and the State: Women, Surrogacy and (Trans) Nationalism in Israel and India”,
3rd Gendering Asia Conference, Helsinki, Finland, May 2009.
“My body pays the monthly bills”: „Embodied labor‟ and Commercial Surrogacy in India,
Five College Reproductive Politics Group Meeting, Hampshire College, Amherst, November 2008.
“At least I am not sleeping with anyone”: „Dirty‟ Surrogates in India
22nd Annual Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference, Hampshire College, Amherst, April 2008
Commercial Surrogacy and Globalization
I NTE RNA TI O NAL P RE SE NTA TIO NS (S ELE CTE D)
British Sociological Association Annual Conference, London School of Economics, April 2011
“My body pays the monthly bills”: Embodied labor and the Politics of Surrogacy in India,
American Sociological Association (ASA), San Francisco, August 2009.
“My body is paying the monthly bills”: „Embodied labor‟ and Commercial Surrogacy in India,
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Boston, August 2008.
“Not an “Angel”, Not a “Whore”: Resisting the Stigma of Surrogacy in India
5th Graduate Student Ethnography Conference, Stony Brook University, New York, May 2008.
“It may be her eggs but it‟s my blood”: Surrogates and Everyday Forms of Kinship in India
Gender and Science Conference, Princeton University, New Jersey, April 2008.
“It may be her eggs but it‟s my blood”: Surrogates and Everyday Forms of Kinship in India
Eastern Sociological Society Conference, New York, February 2008.
“Not an “Angel”, Not a “Whore”: Resisting the Stigma of Surrogacy in India
Japanese Sociological Society Conference, Kyoto, Japan, October 2006.
“Commercial Surrogate Mothering in India: Nine Months of Labor?”
American Sociological Association (ASA), Philadelphia, Summer 2005.
“Intra-household resource allocation in India: Is there a Mother- Daughter link in education?”
Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Puerto Rico, Winter 2005.
“Intra-household resource allocation in India: Is there a Mother Daughter link in education?”
P ROF ESS IO NAL A F FIL IA TI O NS
American Sociological Association
American Anthropological Association
British Sociological Association
Eastern Sociological Society
International Sociological Association
Sociologists for Women in Society
South African Sociological Association