Indulata Prasad
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Mail code: 4308Campus: Tempe
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Indulata Prasad is an assistant professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation. Her research and scholarship include South Asia, Social Movements, Dalit Studies, Oral History, Social Mapping, Gender, Caste, and Land Rights. In her current project, she uses social mapping alongside ethnography to examine how legal rights to redistributed land has impacted Dalit (former untouchables) lives.
Prasad received the 2021 Bluestone Rising Scholar Prize for her paper, Caste-ing Space: Mapping Dynamics of Untouchability in Rural Bihar, India.
Prasad is also the author of the monograph, Feminist and Anti-caste Activism in the Bodhgaya Land Movement of Rural Bihar “We Achieved Great Feats!”, Taylor and Francis Group, 2025.
- Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Texas-Austin 2016
