#  Durba Mitra (And Her New Book) Featured in the Harvard Gazette 

 





June 12, 2020

 

 

 WGS professor [Durba Mitra](/people/durba-mitra) was recently featured in a [*Harvard Gazette* interview](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/research-personal-story-frame-professors-new-book/) in which she discusses the diverse experiences behind her new book, *[Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691196350/indian-sex-life).*  Conversations with her mother and other women defying social norms helped shape her questions and inform her academic work, she says. *"*I had these other structures of knowledge that helped me critically read outside the logic of deeply patriarchal, and often racist colonial ideas of Indian women."

 Read the full Gazette interview [here](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/research-personal-story-frame-professors-new-book/).

 In addition to publishing *Indian Sex Life*, Durba Mitra has also recently been awarded a [Star Family Prize for Excellence in Faculty Advising](https://advising.college.harvard.edu/star-prize-2020) and a [Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Teaching](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/two-receive-roslyn-abramson-award-for-excellence-in-teaching-undergrads/). Her Spring 2020 course, WOMGEN 1214 *Solidarity: Transnational Women's Rights from Suffrage to NGOs,* was [lauded by students](https://spark.adobe.com/page/7vMle0KpqrqiE/) for innovative digital teaching. Please join us in congratulating Professor Mitra for her outstanding scholarship and teaching.



 

 

 



 

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