Are you writing a dissertation? Do you want to convert it to a book? This workshop is for you!
In this workshop, Dr. Kaur offers resources, strategies and tips drawing from her own experience quickly transforming her dissertation into a monograph. She walks through resources she found most useful, how she navigated the process, and what she might do differently looking back. This work will be particularly useful for grad students and early career faculty in the humanities and social sciences.
Harleen Kaur is a community organizer, educator, and holds a PhD in Sociology from UCLA. She studies the subjectivity formation of the US Sikh Punjabi diaspora through empire, memory, and advocacy for social and political inclusion. Her first monograph Martialing Race, under contract with Columbia University Press, traces the co-optation of Sikh embodied sovereignty through imperialism. The book demonstrates how community negotiations for safety and recognition are transformed by empire and state into tactics of increased surveillance, militarization, and policing through the ongoing legacy of Sikhs as a British martial race. Her passion project is utilizing Sikhi's radical notions of humanity as a driver for higher community consciousness rooted in an intersectional, anti-oppression framework.
Presented by the South Asia Graduate Study Association. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the South Asian Studies Initiative.
