BA, Oberlin College
MA, University of Arizona
PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
I am a Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, USA where I have worked since 2000. A decolonial feminist scholar-activist, and documentary film producer, I work in collaborative partnerships with women and Indigenous-led social movements toward gender transformation, ecological sustainability, and feminist decolonial knowledge construction. I have conducted fieldwork in the Caribbean, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Japan, and India. Through my scholar activism, I work to support Indigenous peoples’ movements for self-determination, women's rights, and ecological sustainability. I serve on the board of directors of several organizations, including the Friends of ADWAN (Association of Dalit Women’s Advancement Nepal), working to end caste discrimination. I am Deputy President of The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM) in Sri Lanka, where I have served as conference chair of the World Conference on Women’s Studies since 2015. I am the founding editor of the online, open-access Journal of International Women’s Studies (since 1999); the recipient of four Fulbright scholarships and two Wenner-Gren Foundation grants. Her forthcoming co-edited volume (2026) is titled The Spirit of Marronage: Expressions of Indigenous Self-Determination, published by Vernon Press.
Gender justice, transnational women’s movements, gender diversity and sexualities; feminist ethnography; feminist publishing; human rights of women and girls; Caribbean and global Indigenous Peoples movements; intersection of gender/climate justices; men and masculinities; feminist and Indigenous art movements; ethical and decolonial gendered and Indigenous research methodologies; feminist disability studies; anthropology of development; environmental/ecological anthropology; ethnographic film, cultural representation/visualities