Sujatha Fernandes

Dr Sujatha Fernandes is an Indian-American-Australian writer, originally from Mangalore in South India. She is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney. She is a former member of the Princeton Society of Fellows and she taught at the City University of New York for a decade. She is also an established researcher who has won several awards, grants, and recognition for her scholarship on migrant workers and social movements, and for her deep ethnographic work in marginalized barrio communities and urban shantytowns in Latin America and India. Sujatha also received a fellowship from the 2021 Bread Loaf Writers Conference where she was mentored by Alexander Chee.

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