Education:
Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, December, 1983
B.A. Sociology & South Asian Culture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., January, 1975
Special Certificate in Asian Studies, Rutgers University, January 1975

Regional Expertise:
Primary: South Asia (Pakistan and India)
Secondary: Middle East/North Africa and Southeast Asia (Comparative Muslim Societies)

Languages: Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, French

Principal Research Interests:
Gender & International Development; Comparative International Development; Sociology of South Asia; Sociology of the Middle East/Southeast Asia; Culture & Development; Women & Social Change in the Muslim World; Women's Human Rights; Religion & Social Change

Post-doctoral Activities
Professional Experience:
INTERIM DIRECTOR, International Studies Program, University of Oregon, May - September 1995, July - September 1996, July - August 1997, November 1998 - January 1999

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES PROGRAM COORDINATOR, International Studies Program,
University of Oregon, September 1995 - present

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, International Studies Program, University of Oregon, September 1992 - present. Main Courses: Gender & International Development; Aid to Developing Countries; Seminar in World Value Systems; South Asia: Development and Social Change; Development and the Muslim World; Gender Analysis in Development Planning; Introduction to World Value Systems; Perspectives on International Development; Women's Movements around the World

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, International Studies Program, University of Oregon, January 1988- September 1992

LECTURER (tenure-track), Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, September 1985 - December 1987

LECTURER, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, January 1984 - May 1985

VISITING LECTURER, Semester at Sea Program (University of Pittsburgh, International Studies Program), Fall Semester, 1983

Other:
Consultant, provided expert testimony (various INS asylum cases) and training (San Francisco INS office, August 1998) on human rights and sociopolitical issues in Pakistan affecting INS asylum cases, 1996 - present

State-wide Coordinator of Oregon's participation in nationwide teleconference on September 28, 1996, organized by the President's Interagency Council for Women, to develop an Action Agenda to empower women and families in the U.S. for the coming decade

Consultant to the Asia Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan, on establishing a research agenda to address perceptions of domestic violence and NGO responses, March - April 1996

Participant in Briefing Session at the White House, as part of being a member of Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Women's Conference Circle," January, 1996

Field Director, Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan, October 1994 - February 1995, Lahore, Pakistan

Member, National Democratic Institute for International Affair's (NDI) international team of observers of national and provincial elections in Pakistan, October 1993

Consultant to USAID in Islamabad, Pakistan, contributing to the DEVRES report entitled "U.S. Economic Assistance to Pakistan: Review of the Period 1982-87," March - April 1988. In particular, I wrote the assessment for social sector projects and cross-cutting social issues, including women and development, population planning, health, and opium poppy substitution programs

Educational Consultant to the Bowring Refugee Camp (administered by the Save The Children Foundation), Tuen Mun, N.T., Hong Kong, October 1986 - December 1987, working with the social services coordinator to develop educational programs for adult Vietnamese women interned in the closed camp

Consultant to Social Development Division, ESCAP, United Nations headquarters, Bangkok, July 1986, working with selected ESCAP personnel on strategies to expand their women and development activities in South Asia

Social Scientist, accompanying the American Medical Student Association's Pakistan Study Tour, Summer 1983, in Pakistan. Focus: rural and urban health care problems

Fellowships & Awards:
Freeman grant, to support research in Malaysia in 1999, for project entitled "Islam, Gender, and Human Rights: State Responses to International Agreements"

Consortium of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) grant, to support research in Pakistan and Tunisia, 1998-1999, for project entitled "Islam, Gender, and Human Rights: State Responses to International Agreements"

Women of Distinction Award, from Soroptimist International of Eugene, for "Making a Difference for Women," March 4, 1999

Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) grant, and a Freeman grant, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS), University of Oregon, to support research in Pakistan January - March, 1997, for project entitled "Working for Women's Empowerment in Pakistan after Beijing: National Priorities and Responses"

International Women's Day Award, from the Eugene Human Rights Commission, for "dedication to the empowerment of women in our community and around the world," March 9, 1996

Allama Iqbal Award (First Prize, $1000), for Walls within Walls, presented by the Ministry of Culture, Government of Punjab (Pakistan), for the best book published on Pakistan in 1992, awarded April 1994

ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline grant, March 1994, to support research for a project entitled "Empowering Women: Female Education and Social Change in the Muslim World"

University of Oregon Social Science Seed Grant, 1993-94, to research "Female Education and Social Change in the Muslim World"

Fulbright Senior Lecturing/Research Award, 1991-92. The lecturing component was to assist with curriculum development in Women's Studies in the country; the research component explored prospects and benefits of female higher education

International Political Science Association Travel Grant, to support participation in the IPSA World Congress in Buenos Aires, July 1991

USIA Linkage Grant (through APRO and the NIPS at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad) to support travel to Pakistan, Winter 1991

ACLS Travel Grant, to support participation in the 11th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Amsterdam, July 1990

American Sociological Association Travel Grant, to support participation in the International Sociological Association conference in Madrid, July 1990

Curriculum Development Grant, Center for the Study of Women and Society, University of Oregon, to incorporate a WID component into course entitled "Aid to Developing Countries," Fall 1989

Invited to be a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, June - September 1989; funding provided through a grant from the Oregon Committee for the Humanities and a U of O Faculty Summer Study Award

Fulbright Islamic Civilization Senior Research Grant to study working class women in the Old City of Lahore, May - August 1987; affiliated with the Women's Division, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad

Fieldwork Experience:
PAKISTAN, January - March 1999, TUNISIA, September 1999, and MALAYSIA, December 1999; research on ways in which the state and public discourse in each country is responding to international instruments to which the state has acceded regarding women's human rights.

PAKISTAN, January 1997- March 1997; research on how the Government of Pakistan, major donors and significant NGOs are addressing and implementing resolutions agreed to in the Islamabad Declaration (8/95) and the Beijing Platform for Action (9/95).

PAKISTAN, March 1996; research for the Asia Foundation on domestic violence in northern Punjab, particularly causes, prevalence, perceptions, coping strategies and potential strategies NGOs might use to minimize its increase.

PAKISTAN, October 1994 - February 1995; research on women's empowerment, education and human rights in Pakistan.

PAKISTAN, April - December 1992; research on female higher education in Pakistan on Fulbright grant.

PAKISTAN, March - April 1988; research for USAID's assessment of 1982-87 program in Pakistan. In particular, I wrote the assessment for social sector projects and cross-cutting social issues, including women and development, population planning, health, and opium poppy substitution programs.

PAKISTAN, April - August 1987; Life histories of working class women in the Old City of Lahore on Fulbright grant.

HONG KONG, November 1986 - December 1987; study of the Muslim Community of Hong Kong

Publications:
Books:

Islam, Gender and Human Rights: State Responses to International Agreements (in progress)

Co-editor (with Zulfiqar Gilani) and contributor Power and Civil Society in Pakistan Oxford University Press, 1999 (in progress)

Walls Within Walls: Life Histories of Working Women in the Old City of Lahore Westview Press, 1992 {republished in Pakistan by Pak Books, 1992}

Culture, Class and Development in Pakistan: The Emergence of an Industrial Bourgeoisie in Punjab Westview Press, 1991 {republished in Pakistan by Vanguard Press, 1991}

Editor and contributor Islamic Reassertion in Pakistan: The Application of Islamic Laws in a Modern State Syracuse University Press, November 1986 {republished in Pakistan by Vanguard Press, 1987}

Articles/Book Chapters:

Guest Editor, special issue on "Islam, Gender and Human Rights" Citizenship Studies [in progress]

"Envisioning Women's Human Rights in Pakistan: Contexts, Debates and Challenges" in Suad Joseph (ed.) Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World [in press]

"Much Ado about Counting: the Conflict over Holding a Census in Pakistan" Asian Survey, July/August 1999 [in press]

"Women, Civil Society and Politics in Pakistan" Citizenship Studies 3(1)1999, pp. 141-150

"Pakistan: Some Progress, Sobering Challenges" in Selig S. Harrison, Paul H. Kreisberg and Dennis Kux (eds.) India & Pakistan: the First Fifty Years Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 132-152

"The Gendered Division of Space and Access in Working Class Areas of Lahore" Contemporary South Asia Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 71-89

"The Slow Yet Steady Path to Women's Empowerment in Pakistan" in Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John Esposito (eds.) Islam, Gender and Social Change Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 124-143

"The Society and its Environment" in Peter R. Blood (ed.) Pakistan: A Country Study Area Handbook Series, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1995, pp. 75-146

"Within the Walls: Home-based Work in Lahore" in Eileen Boris and Elisabeth Prugl (eds.) Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1995, pp. 81-92

"The Status of Women" in Charles H. Kennedy and Rasul B. Rais (eds.) Pakistan: 1995 Westview Press, 1995, pp. 47-59

"Women and Religion: Social Reform in South Asia" and "Women's Action Forum" in Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 341-344; 346-348

"Changing Gender Images and Expectations within the Walled City of Lahore" Journal of Women's Studies Centre for Women's Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Vol. I, No. 1, December 1994, pp. 25-39

"Challenges for Muslim Women in a Postmodern World" in Hastings Donnan and Akbar S. Ahmed (eds.) Islam, Globalization and Postmodernity Routledge, 1994, pp. 127-140

"The Consequences of State Policy for Women in Pakistan" in Myron Weiner and Ali Banuazizi (eds.) The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan Syracuse University Press, 1994, pp. 412-444

"The Women's Movement in Pakistan" in J. Henry Korson (ed.) Contemporary Problems of Pakistan Westview Press, 1993, pp. 93-106

"Pakistani Women in the 1980s and Beyond" in Craig Baxter and Syed Razi Wasti (eds.) Pakistan: Authoritarianism in the 1980s Vanguard Books, 1991, pp. 134-152

"South Asian Muslims in Hong Kong: Creation of a 'Local Boy' Identity" Modern Asian Studies Vol. 25, No. 3, 1991, pp. 417-453

"Working Women in the Old City of Lahore: Opportunities, Ideals and Social Constraints" in Sally Sutherland (ed.) Bridging Worlds: Women in South Asia Center for South Asia Studies Monograph Series, University of California, 1991, pp. 245-264

"Benazir Bhutto and the Future of Women in Pakistan" Asian Survey Vol. XXX, No. 5, May 1990, pp. 433-445

"Introduction: Themes and Perceptions on the Bilateral Relationship" in Leo Rose and Kamal Matinuddin (eds.) Beyond Afghanistan: the Emerging U.S. - Pakistan Relations Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1990, pp. 1-27

"Pharmaceutical TNCs at it Again" Viewpoint (Lahore), Vol. XII, No. 9, October 9, 1986, pp. 12-13

"The Western Female Researcher in Pakistan: Honorary Man or Sympathetic Woman? On the problems and Advantages of Women studying Women in a Muslim Culture" in Eye to Eye: Women Studying Women in Asia Monograph #3, Committee on Women in Asian Studies, May 1986, pp. 25-37

"Medicine for the Masses: Development of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Punjab" Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Vol. IX, No. 1, Fall 1985

"Women's Position in Pakistan: Sociocultural Effects of Islamization" Asian Survey, Vol. XXV, #8, August 1985, pp. 863-880

"Women in Pakistan: Implications of the Current Program of Islamization" Working papers Series No. 78, Office of Women in International Development, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, January 1985

"Tradition and Modernity at the Workplace: a Field Study of Women in the Pharmaceutical Industry of Lahore" Women's Studies International Forum Vol. 7, No. 4, 1984

"Women and Factory Work in Punjab, Pakistan" in Nagat M. El-Sanabary (ed.) Women and Work in the Third World: the Impact of Industrialization and Global Economic Interdependence Center for the Study, Education and Advancement of Women, University of California, Berkeley, June 1983, pp. 207-214

Professional Activities:
Conference Presentations (recent and upcoming):
"CEDAW, Islam and Human Rights: Efforts to Find a Viable Fit in the Muslim World" to be presented at a conference entitled "Language, Thought and Reality: Science, Religion and Philosophy" organized by the Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion, Calcutta, August 1-4, 2000 (upcoming)

"Western and Islamic Discourses on Women's Human Rights: Convergences and Divergences" invited presentation at a conference at McGill University "Islam and the Challenge of the New Millennium," April 9-10, 1999

"Much Ado About Counting: the Conflict over Holding the Census in Pakistan" presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, December 1998

"Domestic Violence in Pakistan: Addressing Contemporary Challenges" presented at the World Conference on Family Violence, Singapore, September 9, 1998

"The Gendered Division of Space and Access in Working Class Areas of Lahore" presented at the 5^th Asian Urbanization Conference, University of London, August 1997

"Women, Civil Society and Politics in Pakistan" invited presentation at "Pakistan: Retrospect and Prospect" at American University, Washington, D.C., August 1997

"Pakistani Society in Transition: Fifty Years of Social Development" invited presentation at the Woodrow Wilson Center's conference, "India and Pakistan -- Fifty Years of Independence: Progress, Problems and Prospects," Washington, D.C., June 1997

"Implementing the Platform for Action in South Asia: Goals and Challenges after the UNFWCW in Pakistan" presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 1997

"Changing Power Configurations in Civil Society" presented at a panel on "New Directions in Research on Pakistan," at the 25th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October 1996

"The Rhetoric of Power and Development in Pakistan: Critical Arenas of Concern" presented at a workshop on "The State of the Art in Pakistan Studies" sponsored by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Washington, D.C., September 18-22, 1996

"Mobilizing Women's Political Participation in the Post-Beijing Era: Lessons from Pakistan and the U.S." presented at AWID's biannual conference, "Beyond Beijing: From Words to Action," in Washington, D.C., September 7, 1996

Non-University of Oregon/Community Professional Service:
Op-ed piece "Muslims not barred from Fighting during Ramadan" The Oregonian newspaper, December 27, 1998, p. D3

Invited presentation "Strategic Concerns in Pakistan: Intersections of State and Popular Priorities" at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii, June 1998

Organizer of regional symposium "India and Pakistan: Commemorating 50 Years of Independence" University of Oregon, November 8, 1997

Member, Selection Committee, Senior Fulbright grants for South Asia & South Aisa/Middle East Regional grants, 1997-2000

Invited keynote speaker at annual meeting of Oregon United Nations Association, Portland, October 26, 1996, to speak on "Gender Equity and the United Nations"

Statewide Coordinator and local organizer for September 28, 1996 teleconference organized by the President's Interagency Council for Women, held at the University of Oregon entitled "Oregon's Commitments and Concerns: Setting a National Action Agenda to Empower Women and Families"

Invited Member, Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Women's Conference Circle," to implement the Platform for Action in the U.S., August 1995 - present

Member, Executive Board of the U.S. Council for INSTRAW (U. N. International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women), 1992 - 1996

Member, Executive Committee, Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (a federally funded program through the DOE), January 1988 - present

Organizer, statewide workshop entitled "Priorities '95: Women in Oregon and the World" to contribute to INSTRAW's initiative in helping to set the priorities for the official U.S. delegation to the 4th U.N. Forum for Women in Beijing, 1995, held at the University of Oregon November 7, 1993

Member, Selection Committee for North Africa, Middle East, and South Asia, USIA funded university linkage grants, March 1993

Invited by Alisher Ilkhamov, Director of the "Expert" Sociological Centre at Tashkent University, to participate in a joint research project "Muslim Community: Social Perspectives of Crosscultural Interaction in the 'East-West' Context" December 1990; on-going contact maintained with the Centre, and will attend in the future

Member, Executive Committee, American Pakistan Research Organization (APRO), under Smithsonian "umbrella" of bilateral research institutes, 1988 - 1993

Member, City of Eugene Sister City Commission, appointed by Mayor Jeff Miller, 1989-1991

Professional Service (University of Oregon):
Co-chair, Committee on South Asian Studies (CSAS), under umbrella organization of Center for Asian and Pacific Studies [since 1991]

Co-chair, Search Committee, International Studies Program, 1995-96

Elected Member, Faculty Advisory Council (FAC) to the President of the University, 1997-1999

Faculty Affiliate, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies [since 1989] and Center for the Study of Women and Society [since 1988]

Faculty Representative (elected by the FAC) to the U of O Foundation Board of Trustees, 1999-2001

Member, Committee on Distinguished Service Awards and Honorary Degrees, 1995-96

Member, University Committees on Asian Studies [since 1989] and International Studies [since 1988]

Member, Southeast Asian Studies Committee (part of Northwest Consortium on Southeast Asian Studies) [since 1988]

Member, Off-Campus Scholarships and Grants Committee, 1990 - 1994, 1997 - 1998

Member, Speakers & Events Committee, Center for the Study of Women and Society, 1988-1990

Participating Member, Departments of Sociology and Religious Studies [since 1988]

Representative from the University of Oregon to the Oregon Middle Eastern Studies Consortium (OMESC) [since 1997]

Undergraduate Studies Program Coordinator, International Studies Program, 1995-present

Editorial Work:
Member, Editorial Board, Citizenship and Society, 1996-present

Refereed journal article reviewer: Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Survey, Pacific Affairs (on-going)

Occasional Reviewer, Women's Studies International Forum, 1982-1986

Member, Editorial Board, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1977-1979

Reviewer, various academic presses, 1985 - present

Professional Memberships:

American Institute of Pakistan Studies(AIPS), institutional Trustee representing the University of Oregon, 1995-present

American Pakistan Research Organization(APRO); Executive Board member, 1988 - 1993 [subsumed into the American Institute of Pakistan Studies in 1994]

American Sociological Association (ASA)
    Subcommittee: Political Economy of the World System (PEWS)

Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
    Subcommittee: Committee on Women in Asian Studies (CWAS)
    Subcommittee: South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA)

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