Email: priti@u.washington.edu

Professor Ramamurthy has been a member of the Women Studies faculty since 1997. She is the Director and Chair of the South Asia Center, Jackson School of International Studies, and an Executive Board Member of the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

• Ph.D., Social Science, Syracuse University, 1995
• M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, 1978
• B.A., Economics, University of Delhi, 1976

Feminist critiques of international economic development, agrarian transitions, consumption and commodity cultures, and transnational feminisms.

• Senior Research Fellowship, American Institute for Indian Studies, 2006-2007
• Royalty Research Fellowship, University of Washington, 2006-2007
• Modern Girl Around the World Research Project with Professors Tani Barlow, Madeline Dong Yue, Uta Poiger, Lynn Thomas and Alys Weinbaum; Sponsored by Simpson Center for the Humanities, Institute for Transnational Studies, the UW Graduate School, Comparative Law and Society Center, and the Allen Libraries Endowment

• "The Modern Girl in India in the Inter-war Years: Inter-racial intimacies, International competition, and Historical eclipsing," Women's Studies Quarterly, 34, no. 1 & 2, Spring 2006, 197-226.
• "The Modern Girl Around the World: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings." Modern Girl Research Group (Tani Barlow, Madeleine Dong, Uta Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn Thomas, Alys Weinbaum), Gender and History, 17, no.2, Fall 2005.
• "Towards a New Feminist Internationalism." Co-authored with Miranda Joseph and Alys Eve Weinbaum in Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogrations, Politics, edited by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005
• "Why is buying a 'madras' cotton shirt a political act?: A feminist commodity chain Analysis" Feminist Studies, 30, no. 3, Fall 2004
• "Material Consumers, Fabricating Subjects: Perplexity, global discourses, and transnational feminist research practices," Cultural Anthropology 18 (4) 2003
• "Indexing Alternatives: Feminist Development Studies and Global Political Economy", Feminist Theory, Vol. 1, (2), August 2000.
• "The Cotton Commodity Chain, Women, Work, and Agency in India and Japan: The Case for Feminist Agro-food Systems Research", World Development, Special Issue on Restructuring Agro-food systems in Asia, Vol. 28, No. 3, March 2000.
• "Rural Women and Irrigation: Patriarchy, Class, and the Modernizing State in South India," in Women Working the Environment, edited by Carolyn Sachs, New York & London, Taylor and Francis, 1997.

• UW Freshman Convocation Keynote Speaker, 2005
• UW Distinguished Teaching Award, 2002
• Doctoral Disseration Award for excellence in scholarship and research, Syracuse University, 1995
• Joan Rothenberg Women's Studies Award for service to the community, Syracuse University, 1995

• Gender and Globalization (WOMEN 333)
• Women and International Economic Development (WOMEN 345)
• Feminism in an International Context (WOMEN 305)
• Race, Class, and Gender (WOMEN 322)
• The Modern Girl Around the World (co-taught with Uta Poiger)
• Feminist International Political Economy