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Ritty Lukose
Assistant Professor
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Education
1989: B.A. Economics, University of Chicago
1993: M.A. Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
2001: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Chicago
Areas of Expertise
Anthropology of education
Education, international development, and globalization
Ethnographic theory and practice
Gender studies and youth cultural studies
Professional Biography
Dr. Lukose has taught at the University of Chicago and Stanford University. She joined the faculty at Penn GSE in the fall of 2001. She received a Spencer/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2003-04 academic year.
Research Interests and Current Projects
Dr. Lukose’s research focuses on the relationship between education, democracy, modernity, and globalization. It seeks to understand how education becomes a contradictory site for social change and transformation, with a strong focus on gender, at the intersection of caste and class formation. Her work, so far, has looked at higher education, student politics, youth culture, and transnationalism in Kerala, India. As such, her research is simultaneously interested in international education, development, globalization, and the nature of non-western modernities. She has completed a book manuscript entitled Learning Modernity: Gender, Globalization, and Youth in Kerala.
A second research effort is situated in the
United States
. The goal here is to understand race, immigration, and multiculturalism in the context of Asian-American minority students’ educational experiences and in the formation of youth cultures. Her work engages the anthropology of education, modernity, and international development, the history and philosophy of education, globalization, youth cultural studies, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, ethnographic theory and practice, South Asian Studies, and Asian-American and Diaspora Studies.
Courses Taught
EDUC 602: Youth Cultural Formations (crosslisted with Anthropology)
EDUC 672: Introduction to Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods
EDUC 545: Advanced Ethnographic Methods
EDUC 611: Globalization and Education
EDUC 547: Anthropology of Education (crosslisted with Anthropology/Folklore and Urban Studies)
EDUC 646: Education, Culture, and Society
EDUC 706: Culture, Power, Identities (crosslisted with Anthropology, Folklore, Comparative Literature, Urban Studies)
Selected Publications
Lukose, R. (2007). The children of liberalization: Youth agency and globalization in
India
. In N Dolby and F. Rizvi (Eds.), Youth Moves: Identities in Global Perspective, Routledge.
Lukose, R. (2006). Re(casting) the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala. Social Analysis, August 2006.
Lukose, R. (2005). Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization. Cultural Anthropology, November 2005.
Lukose, R. (2005). Consuming Globalization: Youth and Gender in
Kerala
,
India
. Journal of Social History, June 2005.
Lukose, R. (2000). Private-public divides. Unviable Universities: Special issue. Seminar, 494, October 2000, 47-52.
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