CURRICULUM VITAE Smita Tewari Jassal [email protected]

ASSOCIATE PROF. SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY Graduate School of Social Sciences Middle East Technical University, METU/ODTU Ankara, Turkey VISITING FELLOW 2013-2014 Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, CSDS 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines Delhi 110007

EDUCATION BA (Hons.) MA M.Phil Ph.D

Sociology, Miranda House, Delhi University, 1974 Sociology, Delhi University, 1976 Sociology, Delhi University, 1978 Sociology, Delhi University, 1989 Subject of Dissertation: Agrarian Structure of a Taluqdari Region

BOOK PUBLICATIONS 2012, Unearthing Gender-Folksongs of North India. Durham: Duke University Press http://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-5231-0_601.pdf 2007, The Partition Motif In Contemporary Conflicts: Germany, India-Pakistan, IsraelPalestine. Smita Tewari Jassal and Eyal Ben- Ari (eds.), New Delhi and London: Sage Publications. http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book231564 2001, Daughters of the Earth: Women & Land in U.P. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers

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http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Daughters_of_the_earth.html? id=oDeFAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y ON-GOING RESEARCHES/ Forthcoming books 1) Past Connections, Contemporary Debates: India and Turkey (edited) forthcoming - Routledge, U.K. 2016. 2) From the Margins: An Ethnography of the Mallah. This anthropological study traces the recent history and contemporary concerns of a marginalized river-faring caste to examine how marginality is produced. Based on intensive fieldwork on the society and political economy of selected villages near Benaras and the analysis of caste journals. 3) The Sohbet: Talking Islam in Turkey (under preparation) 4. Land, Nationhood and Collective Memory: A village cluster in Zara, Turkey (team research and fieldwork ongoing). TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2009Middle East Technical University, Ankara Associate Professor, Asian Studies/ Anthropology/ Social Policy, Graduate School of Social Sciences. Designed and prepared the following special MA and senior-level graduate courses for METU, Turkey. Social Anthropology 1Culture: Concepts, Theories and Approaches 2. Understanding Other Cultures 3. Forms of Cultural Production India, Gender and Development Studies 1. State and Society: Perspectives from India 2. Gender and Development: Perspectives from India 3. Feminist Issues and Discourses: Lessons from the Indian Context.

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2008- 2009 Brandeis University, Ma. USA Madeleine Haas Russell, Visiting Professor, Anthropology. 2007-2008 Columbia University, NY -Introduction to South Asia: History and Culture (Anthropology) -Gender and Development, IRWAG. 2006 -2007 American University, SIS, Washington D.C. Cross Cultural Communications. Social Policy and Development. 2006-2007 University of Maryland Introduction to Gender Studies Introductory Sociology. 2005-2006 SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. Gender and Development Gender, Leadership and Development 2004-2005 University of Haifa, Israel Themes and Issues in Contemporary Indian Society RESEARCH POSITIONS 2003-2005 Visiting Fellow, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute For The Advancement Of Peace Asia Unit, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel. Reconciliation and Transitional Justice for Israel and Palestine. 2002-2003 Overcoming Denial, Looking Back at 1947-1948 in India Pakistan and Israel-Palestine through Women’s Perspectives. 1995 – 2003. Senior Fellow, Center for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi 1998 Survey on Concealed Tenancy In Uttar Pradesh Women In Local Self-Governance 1990 Research Associate, Delhi School of Economics, Department of Sociology

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1992-1995. Art Critic for The Moscow Tribune, Moscow’s first English language daily.

RESEARCH PAPERS 2014 with Sebnem Koser Akcapar, Sites of Power and Resistance or Melting Pots? A Gendered Understanding of Islam Through Sufi Shrines In Turkey, Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 1:85 2013. Sohbet: Talking Islam in Turkey, in Sociology of Islam, pp.188-205 2010. ‘Sita in Bhojpuri Folksongs’ in Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal (eds.) Searching for Sita, Penguin Books, New Delhi 2009 Criminals, Heroes, Martyrs: A Backward caste remembers the colonial past, In Rockel Stephen and Rick Halpern (eds.) Inventing Collateral Damage: Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire. Toronto: Between the Lines Press 2007 Taking Liberties in festive song: Gender, new technologies and a ‘joking relationship’, Contributions to Indian Sociology (new series), Jan. 40 (1). 2007. The Partition Motif In Contemporary Conflicts: India-Pakistan, Israel-Palestine, Germany. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2006. Listening for Echoes: Partition in Three Contexts, Economic and Political Weekly, no. 22, June 3 2006 ‘Migration and Song’ in Adam Jones, (ed.), Men of the Global South: A Reader, London: Zed Books 2005 ‘ Gendering Agrarian Issues in U.P’ in Bharati Ray (ed.), Women in Colonial and Post-Colonial India, New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2003 Bhojpuri Songs, Women’s Work and Social Control in North India, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.30, No.2, Jan 2003.pp.159-206 2003 Whither Women’s Empowerment: Mallahin Fishponds in Madhubani, in Sumi Krishna (ed). Gender and Livelihoods, New Delhi, Sage Publications. 2001 Caste and the Colonial State: Mallahs in the Census, Contributions to Indian Sociology (new series), vol. 35, no. 3, Sept.-December. 1998

Women in the Analysis of Peasant Differentiation, in Rao, Nitya and Rurup

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Luise (ed.) A Just Right: Women’s Ownership of Natural Resources and Livelihood Security, New Delhi: FES 1998 Hidden Peasant Women in Colonial Awadh: Some Hypotheses, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 5, no. 1, Jan-June 1997 Primogeniture In Awadh: Sociological Implications for Class and Gender, Economic and Political Weekly, xxxii, no 2, May 31-June 6. 1981 Agrarian Contradictions And Resistance In Faizabad, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.7 No.3 April CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS “Echoes in the Shrine” in Conference, New Perspectives On the Comparative Study of South Asia and the Middle East, Jan 29, 2016, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. "Tracing Turkey India Connections", Panelist; Challenging Asia, Bringing Turkey: Historical and Contemporary Linkages, in 19th Asian Studies Conference, Meiji Gakuin University, Shirokane Campus, Tokyo, 20-21 June, 2015. 'Practices of Listening, Cultures of Cure: Healing Psychosocial Distress in India', in Conference "Problems of Psychological Consequences Connected with Radiation accidents and other Emergency Situations, 2015. EMERCOM, Ministry of the Russian Federation, Moscow 19-23 May, 2015. 'Feminist Issues and Discourses: Lessons for feminism from the Indian context,' Talk hosted by Koc-Kam Koc University Gender Studies Center, Sariyer, Istanbul 7th May 2015. "Introduction to the Conference" and "Witnessing Saintly Justice in Dargahs of Jaunpur" in conference, Past Connections, Contemporary Debates: India and Turkey, CSDS, Delhi, Feb. 2015. Tracing the Turkish Footprint in North Indian Oral Traditions, Asiascapes: Contesting Borders, ASAA 20th Biennial Conference, 8-10th July 2014. Asian Studies Assoc. of Australia, Perth, Univ. of Western Australia 'Gender Equality in Employment and Incomes', Panel on Economic Dimension, May 31, Istanbul Summit on Women's Perspectives on UN Post -2015 Development Agenda, 31 May-1 June 2014. Istanbul

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'Women's Oral Traditions and Work Cultures in India', 8th May, The 3rd International Symposium on Asian Languages and Literatures (ADES) Erciyes University, Kayseri. 89 May, 2014. “Gender in Folksongs”, First P Pandeya Memorial Lecture, Intercultural Studies Centre, Benaras Hindu University (BHU), 17th March 2013, Benaras Resource person, Translating “Devi Geet” from Bhojpuri to English – Workshop, BHU 16th-18th March, 2013. The Sohbet: Talking Islam in Turkey CSDS, Feb.21, 2013. Panel Chair: Issues of Identity in Turkey, 8 Feb, 2013 28th Abant Conference, Bolu, Turkey, 8-11 Feb, 2013 Folk Geet, Lok Geet: Panel, Main Lawns, 26th Jan. 2013. Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur, Diggy Palace, 24-29 Jan 2013. 5 June 2012, Book release, Unearthing Gender, Dept of Sociology, METU, Ankara, Turkey May 6, 2012, Book release, Unearthing Gender, Gandhi Center, Bethesda, Maryland 8 December 2010. Visiting Shrines: Women’s Religiosity in Two Contexts. With Sebnem Akcapar Social Sciences Building, Middle East Technical University, Dept of Sociology. 6 April 2008. Panelist, The Women Who Kept the Songs: From India to Israel- The Musical Heritage of Cochin, University of Maryland and 7 April, Mumford Room, Library of Congress, Asia Division. 17 Nov 2007. Convener and Moderator: ‘Contemporary Social Challenges in a Globalizing World’, University of Maryland, Office of International Programs 18 October 2007.‘Gender and Development: Perspectives From India.’ Center for South Asia (CSA) University of Wisconsin, Madison 3 October 2007 ‘Indian Art in the Contemporary Art World,’ International Symposium: Women Artists of India Transforming Culture, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University. 7-9 June 2007, Gendering the Political and Cultural Economies Of Sleep In India International Conference, New Directions in the Social and Cultural Study of Sleep, University of Vienna, Austria

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April 20, 2007. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Patronage and Power: Women Movers and Shakers in the Indian Subcontinent Moderator for panel 3: Women Leaders in India’s Independence Struggles March 1, 2007. Richard H. Foster Lecture- Women and Development: Perspectives from India, 36th Annual Frank Church Symposium on International Affairs, Idaho Women and Children; Second Class Citizens of the World December 5, 2006. Women, Land and Development In India Sigur Center for Asian Studies, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University September 2006. Gandhi Center, Bethesda, Maryland Panelist - India , U.N. and the Challenges of Development April 14, 2006 .The Creative Active Female Principle: Women from South Asia, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington. D.C. November 2005. Caste, Class and Gender In Marginalization Processes along the Ganga, Haifa University November 11,12, 2004. Gender in the Congratulatory Birth Songs of North India, International Conference on Birth as Experience and Metaphor, Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Feb 2003. The Feminization of Poverty 11th. Annual Conference on Women and Gender Studies and Feminist Theories, Tel Aviv University PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Indian Association of Women’s Studies American Anthropological Association Indian Sociological Association FELLOWSHIPS 1983 Indian Council For Social Research for research at India Office Library, London Centre for Advanced study In Sociology, Delhi University for M. Phil and Ph.D research

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LANGUAGES Hindi, English, Russian, Bhojpuri. SPECIAL PROGRAMS 2003-2005 Script Adviser and Brochure writer for international musical ‘Bharati’, created and developed by Gashash Deshe, for Sahara India and Pasha Goshi Productions. Website: www bharatitheshow.com 2001 Jan.-June Research consultant, documentary ‘Land of Memories’ on collective memory and Bhojpuri folksongs of the Indian diaspora in Mauritius. Aug. 1992- 1995 1989-1990 Development

Freelance Art Critic, The Moscow Tribune, Moscow Co-Chair, Women in Development, Society For International Washington DC Docent, Capital Children’s Museum, Washington, D.C.

1989-1990 1989-1990 Fieldwork: Washington and Baltimore area – oral history among Polish Survivors of the holocaust. Focused on Collective Memory. 1992, 1993, 1994, Moscow – memoirs of resistance in the Gulag by members of a survivors’ society, “Vozvrashchenie” (Return). Founder: Semyon Vilensky COUNTRIES AND CITIES RESIDED IN 2009- Ankara, Turkey 2005-2008, Washington D.C. U.S.A 2001-2005, Tel Aviv, Israel 1995-2001 New Delhi, India 1992-1995, Moscow, Russia 1989-1992 Washington D.C., U.S.A. 1985-1989, New Delhi, India 1982-1985, Warsaw, Poland 1979-1982, Moscow, U.S.S.R REFERENCES Sarah Lamb Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Co-Chair, South Asian Studies Program Liaison, Joint M.A. in Anthropology & Women's and Gender Studies Brandeis University, MS006

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Waltham, MA 02454-9110, U.S.A. Ph: 781-736-2211, FAX: 781-736-2232, [email protected] Prof. Lila Abu-Lughod Professor of Anthropology International Center for Research on Women and Gender (IRWAG) Columbia University New York, NY 10027 [email protected] Dr. Shalini Venturelli Director & Associate Professor International Communication Division School of International Service American University, 4400 Mass Avenue, NW Washington D.C 20016-8071 Tel:202 885 1621 Email: [email protected] Prof. Halil Turan Chair, Dept of Philosophy Middle East Technical University Dumlupinar Blv, 06800, Ankara Turkey [email protected] INTERESTS Yoga, Sufism, Folk narrative traditions, Collective memory

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