Kasturi Ray

Dr. Kasturi Ray’s areas of interest include women and work; globalization and transnationality; immigration and diaspora studies; and colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial studies. She is currently writing a book, “The Trade in Maids: Cross-Cultural Readings of Paid and Unpaid Domestic Workers”, a historical examination of women’s work in Hawai’I, Bengal, the Philippines and the Bay Area. She is also composing a comparative social history of women workers on nineteenth-century sugar plantations in Hawai’I, Louisiana and Trinidad and Tobago.