UCLA: New Faculty Member Purnima Mankekar

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Department are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Purnima Mankekar to the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies and the Women's Studies Program at UCLA.  Professor Mankekar will begin teaching at UCLA in Spring Quarter 2007. She will also serve on the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Asian American Studies Center.

Professor Mankekar received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Washington (1993) and has taught in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University since 1994.  She has also been the Director of the Asian American Studies Program and a faculty member of the Feminist Studies Program at Stanford University.

Her book, Screening Culture, Viewing Politics, published in 1999 by Duke University Press, won the Kovacs Award from the Society for Cinema Studies.  Professor Mankekar is working on two new book projects, including a manuscript on racial violence and South Asian American identities after September 11, 2001.