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William F. Vilas Trust Lecture Series, with Dr. Nicole Ranganath
March 7 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Women’s & Gender Studies William F. Vilas Trust Lecture Series
Date: Friday, March 7, 2025
Venue: Enderis Hall, Room 107
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Title of talk: “Crossing the Terrifying World-Ocean:” Women’s Role in Creating & Contesting South Asian American Communities, 1950s-1980s.
Sponsors: Women’s & Gender Studies and Department of History; Co-sponsors: Urban Studies Program, Asian Studies, Department of Global Studies, Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding at UWM
Short Biography: Nicole Ranganath is the Associate Director and Assistant Professor in Middle East/South Asia Studies at the University of California, Davis who specializes in the history of the South Asia diaspora. She has authored articles and book chapters about gender, caste, and music in the Punjabi diaspora as well as the history of Sikhs in Fiji. She is also the Co-Director of a new research collaboration at UC Davis called Refugee California that explores the histories of displacement among peoples from South Asia and the Middle East. Her PBS documentary, “Jutti Kasoori,” traced the history of women in California’s Punjabi community. She is also the founding curator of the UC Davis Punjabi and Sikh Diaspora Digital Archive. Her book is Women and the Sikh Diaspora in California: Singing the Seven Seas (Routledge, 2024).