Debjani Chakravarty portrait
  • Associate Professor (Lecturer), Gender Studies

Current Courses

Spring 2025

  • GNDR 1100-002
    Gender & Social Change
  • GNDR 3900-001
    Intro Feminist Theories
  • GNDR 5980-002
    Undergraduate Research

Fall 2024

Professional Organizations

  • American Sociological Association . 09/2018 - present. Position : Member/Editorial Staff.
  • Religious Research Association. 06/2018 - 12/2020. Position : Member.
  • National Women's Studies Association. 06/2013 - present. Position : Member.

Pedagogical Publications

  • Chakravarty, D. (2019). Strata and Strategies of Teaching about the Global “Other” Using Critical Feminist Pedagogical Praxis. Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 7(2), 90-105. doi: 10.20343/teachlearninqu.7.2.6 . Paper published, 09/2016.
  •  Chakravarty, D., Cook, J., & Fonow, M. (2012). Teaching, Techniques, and Technologies of Feminist Methodology: Online and on the Ground. In S. N. Hesse-Biber (Ed.), Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. doi: 10.4135/9781483384740.n34. Paper published, 06/2012.

Recent Publications

  • Hungerford, H., Subulwa, A., and Chakravarty, D. (2022) The Insta-Gaze: Circulating and Consuming Stereotyped Images of Africa. Social and Cultural Geography. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2022.2113984
  • Chakravarty, D., Heaton, T.B., Bradshaw, W. S., Galliher, R. V., and Dehlin, J. P. (2021) The Relationship of Religiosity and Sexuality in Non-heterosexual Mormon Women: A Mixed Methods Study. Sexuality and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-021-09929-3
  • Chakravarty, D., Good, K., and Gasser, H. (2020) “Exploring Your World, Exploring Other Cultures:” How Neocoloniality and Neoliberalism Inform U.S. Education Abroad Programs." Equity and Excellence in Education. doi: 10.1080/10665684.2020.1751009 
  • Chakravarty, D., & English, M. (2020). “I Don’t Like Going to Gay Pride”: Experiences of Negotiating LGBTQIA Mormon Identity in Utah. Sexuality & Culture. doi:10.1007/s12119-020-09767-9