MIRA KAMDAR
Executive Director Program on Citizenship & Security
Editorial Board, World Policy Journal
Senior Fellow  

Expertise: 
Issues relating to citizenship and security in a transnational, post-9/11 world; immigration, diaspora and assimilation; economic and political transition in South Asia, particularly India; the status of women in the evolving global economy; cultural aspects of global political change; U.S.-Jndia relations. More on the Program on Citizenship & Security at http://www.citizenshipandsecurity.org/

Experience: 
Senior Fellow, WPI (1993-present); Senior Adviser, Digital Partners (2000-2002); Acting Director, WPI (1996-97); President, Mira Kamdar, Ltd. (1992 -95); Director of Development for A Day in the Life of India, (HarperCollins) (1993-95); strategic counseling and writing, Burson-Marsteller (1990-92); Assistant Professor of French at Louisiana State University (1988-90).  

Selected Publications: 
Her book, Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey from America into her Indian Family's Past was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and won the 2002 Washington Book Award. Her work has appeared in The International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Times of India, The Connecticut Journal of International Law, World Business, The American Journal of Semiotics, The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Seminar and World Policy Journal. She is a regular opinion contributor to the Indian weekly Tehelka. Mira Kamdar is the author of Cultural Portraits of India (1998), a book by internationally acclaimed photographer Lindsay Hebberd, and is a contributing author to Thinking Bodies (Stanford University Press, 1994). She has appeared on CNN International, TV Ontario, TV Asia, Channel-One, Radio-Television Belge, KPFK Radio Los Angeles and the BBC, including "The World" with Lisa Mullins.

Honors: 
2002 Washington Book Award for Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey from America into Her Indian Family's Past (Plume: 2001); Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection 2000 for Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey into her Indian Family's Past (Public Affairs: 2000); Avenue Asia Portraits of Achievement in the Asian-American Community 1996 and 1997; PhD Qualifying Examinations "with distinction";  Thomas J. Watson Fellow; Danforth Graduate Fellow; Phi Beta Kappa.

Affiliations: 
Pacific Council on International Policy (Bilateral Task Force on India-US Relations 2004)
SAJA, South Asian Journalists Association

Education: 
M.A. and Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley 
B.A., Reed College  

Languages: 
Fluent in French and Hindi. Reading and aural comprehension of Spanish and Italian. Some Gujarati. 

Contact Information: 
E-mail: kamdarm@newschool.edu
Representation: Sterling Lord, Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
More on Mira Kamdar at http://www.mirakamdar.com/ 

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