Jyoti Puri
Home institution
Simmons University
Research project
Migrant Rites: Death, Gender and Religion in the South Asian Diaspora
Highlighting changing funerary practices, this project considers the significance of religion and gender as the bedrock upon which migrants navigate life, death, and the struggle to belong. It focuses on death among Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities in North America from the early twentieth century to the present.
Profile
Jyoti Puri is Professor of Sociology at Simmons University. She writes and teaches at the crossroads of sociology, sexuality and queer studies, and postcolonial feminist theory. Her most abiding interests relate to issues of sexuality, gender, race, nation, and state from a transnational/postcolonial feminist lens.
Course
HDS 2036: Cultural Politics of Death Rites (Fall 2019)
Lecture
Death in Transit—Cremation, Spectacle, and Looking Off-Center
September 26, 2019