New York University

Ritty Lukose's teaching and research interests lie in the areas of gender, globalization, and colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic modernities as they impact South Asia. With a background in anthropology, she is particularly interested in issues of youth, development, consumption, citizenship, politics, and gender and feminist issues. Professor Lukose's research has been funded by the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Fulbright Program, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Academy of Education, and she has published articles on this research in Cultural Anthropology, Social History, Social Analysis, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. Her book, Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in India, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She teaches courses on globalization, nationalism and colonialism, diasporic studies, gender and feminism, and South Asia.