Sharmila Rudrappa

Sharmila Rudrappa serves as a Professor in the Department of Sociology within the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. Her academic journey began with a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and she has established herself as a leading scholar in the sociology of gender, race, and labor. Professor Rudrappa teaches a range of courses including Feminist Theory (Soc 321K), Race and Work (Soc 321K), and Reproductive Justice/Race (cross-listed as AAS 330M, SOC 335R, and WGS 340).

Her educational qualifications are:

• PhD in Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Professor Rudrappa's research program critically examines reproductive markets, with a geographic focus on the United States and India, and extends to broader issues of care work labor markets. Her acclaimed monograph Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India (New York University Press, 2015) analyzes the ethical and economic dimensions of transnational surrogacy. Her earlier work Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and the Cultures of Citizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2004) explores race, immigration, and citizenship formation among Indian Americans in Chicago. Her research sits at the intersection of gender studies, racial inequality, and global labor studies.

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