gender studies

Dipika Mukherjee

Field: Sociolinguistics, Gender and Migration
Country of origin: India
Period of stay at IIAS: 15/01/2007 - 31/12/2010
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Shanghai International Studies University
Research topic: Negotiating Languages and Forging Identities: Surinamese-Indian Women in the Netherlands

Manuela Ciotti

Field: Anthropology
Country of origin: Italy
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/01/2010 - 31/03/2010
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: University of Edinburgh
Research topic: Political agency and gender in India. Writing women, dalits and subalterns into political modernity

Melody Chia-Wen Lu

Field: Gender studies, Migration studies
Country of origin: Taiwan
Period of stay at IIAS: 01/02/2006 - 01/09/2009
Status: Affiliated fellow
Home institute: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Leiden University
Research topic: Intermediated cross-border marriage migration in Asia and Europe

Field:Modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history
Country of origin: Japan
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 August 2007 - 31 January 2008
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
Research topic: On Intellectual History and Culture of Cartoons in Modern China: From the Points of View of Multicultural Linkage, Media, and Gender
Field:Cultural anthropology
Country of origin: Hong Kong, China
Period of stay at IIAS: September 2007
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research topic: Engendering Transnational Networks: An Ethnographic Study of Nepalese Women in Hong Kong
Field:Literary studies
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS: 20 April 2007 – 20 October 2007
Status: Affiliated Fellow, sponsored by CASS
Home institute: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Research topic: Female roles in Chinese Novels, 15th-18th Century