Shweta M. Adur, Ph. D

Research Areas

Dr. Adur joins as an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies after serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut and lecturer at Tufts University.

Her research focuses on the intersectional study of gender, sexuality, race-ethnicity, immigration and human rights. Her dissertation titled “Negotiating Sexuality and Ethnicity: Queer South Asians in the U.S.” focuses on LGBT South Asians and examines the intersections of racial-ethnicity, class, and sexuality as individuals negotiate multiple identities (for example, Queer, South Asian) in settings where one or more of those identities (e.g., racial-ethnicity, sexuality, and class) are marginalized.

She has several peer-reviewed works and has also collaborated on a book titled  “As the Leaves Turn Gold”. The book engages with questions of cumulative disadvantage and transnational-substantive citizenships and its implication on social justice claims. She has completed grant-funded research on human rights issues focusing especially on violence against women. In the past, she has consulted with start-ups and interned with organizations focused on social justice issues, particularly those that focus on preventing violence against women such as the UN Women South Asia, Management Systems International in Washington DC etc.

She believes that the classroom is a shared learning space and to be able to teach, one has to be open to learn and innovate. To this end, her students continue to inform and inspire her. Given her background in International Development, she is committed to bringing a cross-cultural and global lens to all her classrooms.