Sociology Professor's Article Published in International Journal
Published 05.19.2006
An article written by Vinay Bahl, associate professor of sociology at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been published in the journal Dialectical Anthropology.
Her article, "Shifting Boundaries of 'Nativity' and 'Modernity' in South Asian Women's Clothes," appeared in Volume 29, Issue 1 of the journal.
Dialectical Anthropology is an independent, international interdisciplinary journal for critical minds in anthropology, the arts and humanities, and social and political sciences. It is published by Springer.
Bahl has taught sociology at Penn College since 1996. She holds a doctorate from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1991). In 2002-03, she was invited as a visiting scholar to the College de France, Paris, and was a visiting scholar at Amsterdam's International Institute of Asian Studies in 2004.
She has published three books (one co-edited) and numerous articles on subjects that include industrialization, the working class, the caste system, the women's movement, music, South Asian women's clothes and Third World women.
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