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Srimati Basu is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, holding the Georgia Davis Powers Endowed Professorship on Gender-Based Violence. She currently serves as Chair of the Gender and Women’s Studies department and is a member of the Committee on Social Theory. Her research focuses on global feminisms, law, gender-based violence, social movements, and masculinities. She has conducted extensive fieldwork on anti-feminist men’s rights groups and Indian women private detectives, supported by prestigious fellowships from organizations like the National Endowment for the Humanities and Sisters in Crime.
Education: Ph.D. in Cultural Studies/Anthropology/Women's Studies from Ohio State University, M.A. from Purdue University, and B.A. from Presidency College, Calcutta University.
Her major works include monographs like The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India (2015) and She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property and Propriety (1999). She has also edited influential volumes such as Conjugality Unbound: Sexual Economies, State Regulation and the Marital Form in India (2014). Her research explores feminist legal reforms, marriage dynamics, and gender-based violence in India.
Awards include the University of Kentucky Global Impact Award (2020), Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship (2013-14), and Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (2010). She has contributed to policy discussions via UN expert meetings and written for outlets like Ms. Magazine, India Today, and Times of India.
Teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses on gender, law, violence, and South Asian studies. She actively engages in public discourse on feminist issues through podcasts like Doing Sociology and Riddle Me That: True Crime.
