Lubna Chaudhry

Assistant Professor

Office: UDC-417
Office Phone: 607-777-9206
Fax: 607-777-7587
E-mail: chaudhry@binghamton.edu

Educational Background

PhD Sociocultural Studies, University of California, Davis
Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California, Davis
Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research, University of California, Davis
• MA, Applied Linguistics, University of Hawaií at Manoa
MA, English Literature, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Teaching Profession

Courses regularly taught

Introduction to interdisciplinary social sciences
Social inequalities
Social foundations of education
Cultural diversity and education
Anthropology and education
Gender and education
Multiple forms of global violence: Effects on women, children, and families
Multicultural perspectives on women in the US
Border women: Postcolonialism, gender, and identity
Feminist theory
Feminist approaches to development

Current research interests:

Women and children's experiences of structural and conflict-generated violence
Post-September 11 immigrant identities, with special focus on South Asian Muslims in the US
Education and development of people in neo-colonial/colonial contexts
Third World women, activism, and social transformation
The politics of knowledge production as a feminist researcher of Third World origin

Selected publications:

Chaudhry, Lubna Nazir (2004) Reconstituting selves in the Karachi conflict: Mohajir women survivors and structural violence. Cultural Dynamics, 16(2/3), 259-290.
Chaudhry, Lubna Nazir (2004) Women and poverty: Salient findings from a gendered analysis of a quasi-anthropological study in rural Punjab and Sindh. SDPI Working Paper Series, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad.
Chaudhry, Lubna Nazir (2004) The postcolonial feminist as conductor/reader of interviews with women in conflict situations. SDPI Working Paper Series, Sustainable Development Policy, Institute, Islamabad.
Chaudhry, Lubna Nazir (2001) "You should know what's right for me!": A hybrid's struggle to define empowerment for critical feminist research in education.In Betty M. Merchant and Arlette Ingram Willis, (Eds.), Multiple and intersecting identities in qualitative research, pp.33-42. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Chaudhry, Lubna Nazir (2000) Third World woman meets Third World man in Athens Georgia. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 13(3), 305-306.
Chaudhry, Lubna Nazir (2000) Perspectives on education from
field-work in Southern Punjab. SDPI Working Paper Series #53. Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad.
Chaudhry, Lubna N. (1999) Fragments of a hybrid's discourse, pp.79-91. In Sangeeta Gupta, (Ed.), Emerging voices: Writings by women of South Asian origin. Altamira Press.
Chaudhry, Lubna N. (1998) "We are graceful swans who can also be crows": Hybrid identities of Pakistani Muslim women. In Shamita Das Dasgupta, (Ed.), A patchwork shawl: Chronicles of South Asian women in America, pp. 46-61.Newark, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Chaudhry, Lubna Nazir (1997) Researching my people, researching myself: Fragments of a reflexive tale. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 10 (4), 441-453.