Priti Ramamurthy

Priti Ramamurthy is Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her interests include gender and global political economy, labor studies, contemporary feminist South Asian Studies and development studies. Her research is on the politics of social reproduction in the context of urban migration and agrarian change; agricultural biotechnologies; and gender, modernity and commodity cultures.

Betweens: City Lives, Rural Ties in Contemporary India, a book manuscript, co-authored with Vinay Gidwani, on working class lives in the informal economy in India, is currently under review. Scholarship from this project has been published in GenderTalk (NCAER), Feminist Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. On agrarian transitions and feminist commodity chains, she’s published in Feminist Studies, Signs, Cultural Anthropology, Environment and Planning A, and World Development. She is a co-editor and co-author of The Modern Girl Around the World: Modernity, Consumption, Globalization (Duke, 2008).

For her pedagogical contributions, Ramamurthy has been awarded the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2002) and Marsha Landholt Graduate Mentorship Award (2023).

In addition to serving on the Editorial Board of Feminist Studies, Ramamurthy is the South Asia Regional Editor of Critical Asian Studies. At the University of Washington, Seattle, she has served as a Member of the elected Faculty Council of the College of Arts and Sciences (2020–24), Chair, Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies (2012–17) and Director, South Asia Studies Program and Center (2007–12).