Dr. Patricia Uberoi

Dr. Uberoi has held teaching and research positions in Sociology at the University of Delhi and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. She was formerly honorary director of the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, where she continues to remain involved with India-China comparative studies and overseeing a project on regional development in Northeast India, Southwest China, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

She is currently engaged in research on family, kinship, marriage, gender and sexuality and on aspects of popular culture and social policy in reference to both India and China. She has published widely on these themes, including Freedom and destiny: Gender, family and popular culture in India (2006), Family, kinship and marriage in India (edited, 1993), Social reform, sexuality and the state (edited, 1996), Rise of the Asian giants: Dragon-elephant tango (edited, 2008) and, most recently, India's north east states, the BCIM Forum and regional integration (with Kishan S. Rana, 2012). She has also co-edited Tradition, pluralism and identity: In honor of T.N. Madan (Sage Publications, 1999), Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology (2007) and Marriage, Migration and Gender (2008). She was co-editor of the journal, Contributions to Indian sociology (1992-2006), and is on the editorial board of several other academic journals.