Mukhopadhyay, Carol C

Mukhopadhyay, Carol C

Emeritus Faculty, Anthropology

Email

Preferred: carol.mukhopadhyay@sjsu.edu

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Univ Of Cal-Riverside, 1980
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology, Univ Of Cal-Riverside, California, United States, 1980
  • Masters Degree, Anthropology, CSU-Los Angeles, California, United States, 1972
  • Bachelors Degree, Education, Univ Of Cal-Berkeley, California, United States, 1965
  • Bachelors Degree, History, Univ Of Cal-Berkeley, California, United States, 1964

Bio

Dr. Mukhopadhyay is a cultural anthropolgist whose teaching and research specialties are gender, family, sexuality, multicultural education, culture-cognition, and methodology. Her research has focused on gendered activities, in households, politics, and particularly in science & engineering. This has involved fieldwork in both the United States and India.

She also has 40 years experience teaching, doing research, consulting, and publishing in the area of race-gender-education-culture. Most recently, she served as a Key Advisor on the American Anthropological Association's public education project and traveling museum exhibit, RACE: Are We So Different?

Sample recent publications include:

Gender and the 2016 Election.  2017.  Article in Social Justice edition on 2016 Presidential Election. 

Gender and Sexuality (with T. Blumenfield). 2017

How Real is Race? A Sourcebook on Race, Culture, and Biology, with Rosemary Henze and Yolanda T. Moses, SECOND EDITION, 2014, Altamira.

How Exportable are Western Theories of Gendered Science? A Cautionary Word. In Neelam Kumar, ed. Women and Science in India: A Reader. Oxford University Press. Pp. 137-177. 2009.

Getting Rid of the Word “Caucasian”. In. Pollack, Mica, ed.  Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School.  NY:The New Press.   Pp.12-16. 2008

A Feminist Cognitive Anthropology: The Case of Women and Mathematics,Ethos (Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology), Special Issue on Feminist Psychological Anthropology, Dec. 2004

Dr. Mukhopadhyay retired from teaching at SJSU in January 2011 and now is Professor Emerita. She plans to continue her professional research, publishing, and consulting activities as well as having more time for her favorite hobbies [especially chamber music!] and for travel with her spouse.

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