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Sonalde
Desai
Associate
Professor
Ph.D.
Stanford University, 1987
Office:
3143 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301 405-6312
Email: sdesai@socy.umd.edu
Departmental Specialty Areas:
Demography; Development; Gender, Work and
Family
Sonalde Desai is a demographer whose work
deals primarily with social inequalities in developing
countries with a particular focus on gender and
class inequalities. She studies inequalities in
education, employment and maternal and child health
outcomes by locating them within the political
economy of the region. While much of her research
focuses on South Asia, she has also engaged in
comparative studies across Asia, Latin America
and Sub Saharan Africa. She has published articles
in a wide range of sociological and demographic
journals including American Sociological Review,
Demography, Population and Development Review
and Feminist Studies.
Professor Desai is
currently examining changes in the nature and
composition of Indian middle classes in the context
of India’s movement from state-capitalism
to market-capitalism and increasing involvement
in the global economy. Sonalde Desai and
Reeve
Vanneman, in collaboration with National
Council of Applied Economic Research in New
Delhi, have just completed a multi-sectoral survey
of 40,000 households across India which provides
a rich resource for research on the relationship
between poverty, gender inequality and public
policy on the one hand and different dimensions
of human development on the other. Ongoing studies
based on these data include intersection between
caste and gender in India; changing nature of
social stratification and caste inequalities;
role of affirmative action in shaping education
inequalities in India; gender inequalities in
access to health services; and, the role of social
capital in shaping access to opportunities. This
survey, titled India Human Development Survey,
was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Course
Syllabi:
Sociology 699J:
Surveys in Developing Countries
Sociology 630: Population
and Society
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