Migration Workshop: Prema Kurien (Syracuse University)

An author-meets-critics book panel with Prema Kurien. Panelists include: Jyoti Puri (Boston University), Natasha Warikoo (Tufts University), and Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College). Moderator: Nazli Kibria (Boston University). Co-sponsored by: American Studies Program, Center for the Study of Asia, and the Department of Sociology. Prema Kurien is professor of sociology at Syracuse University, Daicoff Faculty Scholar and the former director of the South Asian Center. She is a scholar of international migration, race, ethnicity and religion. Kurien adopts a transnational approach in her work and has also done research in India, to show how a variety of global factors, including developments in the country of origin, play a profound role in shaping community structures, cultures and activism profiles of immigrants and even the second generation. She is the author of three award-winning sole-authored books, Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India (2002), A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism (2007), Ethnic Church Meets Mega Church: Indian American Christianity in Motion (2017) and over 70 other sole-authored publications. Her new book, Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization among New Americans was published in January 2025. Her work has been recognized with two career awards, three book awards, five article awards and two teaching awards. She has received postdoctoral fellowships and grants from a wide variety of sources. The Migration Studies Workshop aims to foster a community of scholars, build networks and promote social science studies of international migration from a range of methodologies and perspectives.

When 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm on 16 April 2026
Building 121 Bay State Road, Bay State Room 154