Harshita Yalamarty
Faculty of Arts
Women and Gender Studies
Assistant Professor
Limited Term Appointment
Office: McNally 503
Email: harshita.yalamarty@smu.ca
Harshita Yalamarty (she/her) is a feminist academic with over 5 years of experience in teaching courses in women and gender studies, and conducting qualitative, ethnographic research on Indian women both within India and in the Indo-Canadian diaspora. Her dissertation, titled “Across Seven Seas, I Followed You Here: Caste, Marriage Migration and Multiculturalism in the Indian Diaspora” uses an intersectional and transnational lens to examine the journeys of Indian marriage migrant women in Canada, and was recently awarded the National Women's Studies Association First Book Prize (2022). She has previously taught at York University (Toronto) as well as University of Delhi (India).
PUBLICATIONS
Yalamarty, H. (2022). Being Good Wives and Ideal Migrants: Experiences of Indian Marriage Migrant Women in Canada. Canada Watch Spring 2022, pp 17-19. https://robarts.info.yorku.ca/files/2022/04/CW-2022.pdf?x73767
Yalamarty, H. (2020). Lessons from" No Ban on Stolen Land"(Dispatch). Studies in Social Justice, 14(2), 474-485.
Anitha, S., Roy, A., & Yalamarty, H. (2018). Gender, migration, and exclusionary citizenship regimes: Conceptualizing transnational abandonment of wives as a form of violence against women. Violence against women, 24(7), 747-774.
transnational and intersectional feminism, marriage migration, Indo-Canadian diaspora, caste in the diaspora, migrant rights, settler colonialism, South Asia, Indian women's movement
2022 - PhD (Gender, Women and Feminist Studies), York University, Toronto
2013 - MPhil (Political Studies), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
2011 - MA (Political Studies), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
2009 - BA (Political Science Hons), Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, India.