Anupama Rao is TOW Associate Professor of History at Barnard College and Associate Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. She is the author of The Caste Question: Dalits and Politics in Modern India (2009); editor of Gender & Caste: Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism (2003); and co-editor of Discipline and the Other Body (2006). She has written extensively on non-western gender and sexuality, the intellectual history of caste, and social theory. She is also Senior Editor, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
