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Uddipana Goswami
I am a writer, feminist peace researcher, author of 7 books including 'Conflict & Reconciliation: The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam' (2014) & a collection of short stories set against the violent conflicts in Northeast India, 'No Ghosts in This City' (2014). My latest book, 'Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, & Feminist Agency' (2023) follows my Fulbright postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania.
Biography
Uddipana Goswami is a writer and feminist peace researcher with a PhD in conflict studies. She is author of 7 books including an academic monograph, 'Conflict and Reconciliation: The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam' (Routledge 2014) and a collection of short stories set against the violent conflicts in Northeast India, 'No Ghosts in This City' (Zubaan 2014). 'Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency' (2023) follows her Fulbright postdoctoral research on gender and ethnonationalist conflicts at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.A former journalist and editor, Uddipana worked with several multinational & hyperlocal media groups, from National Geographic Channel (2002-’04) to Seven Sisters Post (2011-‘12). As an academic, she teaches/has taught at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India), Guwahati College (India), University of Pennsylvania (USA), Curtis Institute of Music (USA), and The Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University (USA).
Education
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PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; 2012)
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Feminist Peace Research; Writing & Rhetoric; South Asia & Northeast India
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