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LATA MURTI
______Department of American Studies and Ethnicity 2021 E. Villa St.
University of Southern CaliforniaPasadena, CA 91107
3470 Trousdale Parkway, WPH 303Cell: (323) 309-7795
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4033E-mail:
EDUCATION
2002-2009 Ph.D., American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, expected May 2009
Dissertation: “With and Without the White Coat: The Racial Formation of First and Second Generation Indian Immigrant Doctors in Southern California.”
Committee: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Co-Chair), Jane Iwamura (Co-Chair)
Leland Saito, Greg Hise
Research Expertise and Interests: Asian American Studies, Qualitative Sociology, Race, Gender, and Immigration.
2003-2009Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies, University of Southern California,
expected May 2009
2002-2007M.A., American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California
1994-1998B.A. with highest honors, Humanities, University of Kansas
B.A. with highest honors, Spanish, University of Kansas
HONORS AND AWARDS
2007-2008College Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
2006-2007Haynes Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, Los Angeles, California
2002-2003Oakley Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
2002Semi-Finalist for Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies
1998Phi Beta Kappa Society: Alpha of Kansas at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
1997National Security Education Program (NSEP) Scholarship for Study Abroad
1996Golden Key National Honor Society, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
1996Sigma Delta Pi: University of Kansas Chapter of La Sociedad Nacional Hispánica, Lawrence, Kansas
1994Discover Card Tribute Award, Bronze Scholarship, Discover Card Financial Services
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION
Murti, L. 2006. "At Both Ends of Care: South Indian Hindu Widows Living with Daughters and Daughters-in-Law in Southern California." Globalizations 3:349-365.
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Appearances
March 2008 “With and Without the White Coat: The Racial Formation of First and (Forthcoming) Second Generation Indian Immigrant Doctors in Southern California.” Invited Presentation. Race and Ethnic Studies Program, University of Redlands. Program Director: Dr. Keith Osajima.
March 2006“The Racial Ambiguity of South Asian Americans.” Invited presentation. Course: Sociology 142: Diversity and Racial Conflict, University of Southern California. Instructor: Dr. Amon Emeka.
January 2006“South Asian American Communities.” Invited presentation. Course: Asian and Asian American Studies 415: Asian American Communities in Southern California, CaliforniaStateUniversity, Los Angeles. Instructor: Belinda Lum.
November 2005“South Asian Americans and Race.” Invited presentation. Course: Sociology 142: Diversity and Racial Conflict, University of Southern California. Instructor: Dr. Amon Emeka.
October 2004“Still Realizing the Patriarchal Bargain: Hindu Widows Living with Daughters and Daughters-in-Law in Southern California.”Invited presentation. Symposium: Women andTransnational Care Work. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Ill.
Academic Conferences
April 2008“Rejecting Race: The Class Strategies of First-Generation Indian (Forthcoming) Immigrant Doctors in Southern California.” 2008 Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago, Ill.
April 2008“Rejecting Race: The Class Strategies of Southern California’s First-(Forthcoming) Generation Indian Immigrant Doctors.” 79th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Portland, Or.
April 2008“Rejecting Race: The Class Strategies of First-Generation Indian
(Forthcoming)Immigrant Doctors in Southern California.” Creating a Community of Scholarship on Asian Pacific American Issues: A Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Ca.
March 2004“Same House, Different Worlds: Hindu Widows Living with Daughters and Daughters-in-Law in North America.” 2nd Annual Conference of Ethnic Studies in California: Crossing Borders, Shaping Identities: Citizenship, Social Justice, and the Crossroads of Culture, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, Ca.
November 2003“What About Her Race?: A Discursive Analysis of Hindu Responses to Madonna's 1998 MTV Performance.” 45th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Hilton Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
March 2003“Rereading Madonna’s Hindu Performance: A Critical Analysis of Hindu Responses.”1st Annual Conference of Ethnic Studies in California: Crossing Borders, Shaping Identities: New Directions in Ethnic Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Ca.
February 2003“Rereading Madonna’s Hindu Performance: A Critical Analysis of Hindu Responses.”18th Annual University of Southern California Association of English Graduate Students Conference: Contamination: Sites of Contagion, Transgression and Transformation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Ca.
October 1999“La contradicción olvidada: la cuestión de la mujer en Makbara” (The Forgotten Contradiction: The Question of the Female in Makbara). Presented in Spanish at the 15th Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Miss.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. Amon Emeka, Sociology.
Course: Sociology 142: Diversity and Racial Conflict, Universityof Southern California.
Fall 2005 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. Elaine Bell Kaplan, Sociology. Course: Sociology 150: Social Problems, University of Southern California.
Fall 2004-
Spring 2005Assistant Lecturer for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Course: Spanish 120: Spanish I, University of Southern California.
Spring 2004 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. George Sánchez, History and AmericanStudies & Ethnicity. Course: American Studies and Ethnicity 101: Race and Class in Los Angeles, University of Southern California.
Fall 2003 Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. Leland Saito, Sociology and AmericanStudies & Ethnicity. Course: American Studies and Ethnicity 101: Race and Class in Los Angeles, University of Southern California.
SERVICE
September 2007Panel Moderator for “South Asian Stereotypes.” Sponsor: Asian Pacific American Student Services’ Defining and Exploring South Asian Issues (D.E.S.I.) Project, University of Southern California.
April 2007Panel Moderator for “Desi Interracial Relationships: Tolerable or Taboo?” Sponsor: Asian Pacific American Student Services’ South Asian Projects, University of Southern California.
November 2006Panel Moderator for “Defining Asian America: Are South Asians Really Asian?” Primary Sponsor: Graduate and Professional Student Senate, University of Southern California.
August 2006-
Spring 2007President, South Asia Forum (SAF), University of Southern California.
August 2006-Co-Secretary, Graduate Students of Color Network (GSCN), University May 2007 of Southern California.
January 2006-Peer American Studies & Ethnicity Organization (PASEO) Representative
December 2006for Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS), University of Southern California.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Creative
Murti, L. Forthcoming. "Langston." in Writing the Lines of Our Hands, edited by Sumi Kaipa Neela Banerjee, and Pireeni Sundaralingam. Berkeley: Creative Arts Books.
—. 1999. "Langston." Pp. 63 in Analecta XXV: The Art and Literary Journal of the University of Texas at Austin. Austin: Liberal Arts Council of the University of Texas at Austin.
—. 1998. "Tanka Rhapsody." Pp. 6 in Kiosk Art and Literary Magazine. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas.
—. 1997. "Lay Down Your Fork." Pp. 21 in Kiosk Art and Literary Magazine. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas.
—.1996. "An Indian American Speaks of Rhythm." Pp. 22 in Kiosk Art and Literary Magazine. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas.
Newspaper, selected
Murti, L. Apr. 27-May 10, 2000. "KCMO Public Supports New Initiative on Race Relations." Pp. 1-B and 6-B in Dos Mundos Bilingual Newspaper. Kansas City, Miss.
—. Mar. 30-Apr. 12, 2000. "CNN Correspondent Maria Hinojosa Challenges Kansas Citians to Tell their Stories." Pp. 1-2 in Dos Mundos Bilingual Newspaper. Kansas City, Miss.
Jaramillo, B. and Lata Murti.Mar. 16-29, 2000. "Nobel Laureate Seeks Freedom for Imprisoned Activist: Part Two." Pp. 1 and 13 in Dos Mundos Bilingual Newspaper. Kansas City, Miss.
—. Feb. 17-Mar. 1, 2000. "Nobel Laureate Urges Release of Imprisoned Activist during Area Visit: Part One." Pp. 1-2 in Dos Mundos Bilingual Newspaper. Kansas City, Miss.
Murti, L. Feb. 3-16, 2000. "Rockhurst Student Recalls Visit Home to Venezuela in Recovery." Pp. 1-2 in Dos Mundos Bilingual Newspaper. Kansas City, Miss.
—. Jan. 6-19, 2000. "Johnson County, Kan. Responds to Recent Latino Growth." Pp. 1-2 in Dos Mundos Bilingual Newspaper. Kansas City, Miss.
—. Oct. 28-Nov. 10, 1999. "Bringing Out the Dead is Little More than a Paramedical Melodrama." Pp. 9 in Dos Mundos Bilingual Newspaper. Kansas City, Miss.
—. Oct. 14-27, 1999. "Latina Magazine Editor-in-Chief Encourages Hispanic Students to Further 'Latino Renaissance'." Pp. 15 in Dos Mundos Bilingual Newspaper. Kansas City, Miss.
—. Sep. 30-Oct. 13, 1999. "Former Maquiladora Worker Informs Lawrence Audience that Mexican Labor Conditions Affect All Americans." Pp. 6 in Dos Mundos Bilingual Newspaper. Kansas City, Miss.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
SpanishAdvanced Certification, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 1997.
TamilBasic conversational knowledge.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Studies Association (ASA)
Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS)
Pacific Sociological Association (PSA)
REFERENCES
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Professor
Department of Sociology (Director of Graduate Studies)
3620 S. Vermont Ave.
Kaprielian Hall 352
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA90089-2539
(213) 740-3606,
Jane Iwamura, Assistant Professor
Departments of Religion and American Studies & Ethnicity
825 Bloom Walk, ACB 130
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA90089-1481
(213)821-2851,
Leland Saito, Associate Professor
Departments of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity (Chair)
3620 S. Vermont Ave.
Kaprielian Hall 352
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA90089-2539
(213)740-3604,