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ProfessorSujatha Fernandes

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Fernandes' work explores social and labor movements, participatory media and art, global Black cultures, migrant workers, and climate storytelling. She has done ethnographic work among marginalized barrio communities in Cuba and Venezuela, and migrant workers in New York City, Mumbai, and Sydney. Her research and scholarship is concerned with the stories of those erased by history, multi-racial working class solidarities, colonialism, neoliberalism, and socialist alternatives.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Migrant Worlds: Labouring Lives and Worker Consciousness in Global Cities
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Fernandes S
  • GRANT
    Indian Global Capital in Australia: A Social and Environmental Justice Analysis
    Office of Global and Research Engagement1 Feb 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bibile N,
    • Fernandes S,
    • Sekher M,
    • Purewal N
  • GRANT
    Improving the first-year sociology student experience through participatory assessment redesign
    DVC Education1 Jan 2020
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Understanding Power, Effecting Change: Theory Across the Curriculum (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate)
    DVC Education1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Deborah Cobb-Clark and Sujatha Fernandes - SRRRP DVCR-754A&B
    DVC Research1 Jan 2016
    People funded by this grant: