Sabita Manian

Region of Interest	South Asia
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences & Professor of International Relns.& Political Science
Affiliation	University of Lynchburg, Virginia
Email	manian@lynchburg.edu
Mailing Address	Dean of Social Sciences University of Lynchburg 1501 Lakeside Drive 327 Schewel Hall Lynchburg, VA 24501 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 434-544-8449 fax: 434-544-8639
Websites	http://www.lynchburg.edu/academic/history/manian.htm
Countries of Specialization	India, China, Pakistan Caribbean countries: Guyana, Saint Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago
Education	Ph.D., Tulane University
Research Interests	Research expertise is in the regional politics and economics of Asia (both South and East Asia), the circum-Caribbean, and Europe. - including right-wing extremism; foreign policy; international security; rafficking of women. She is currently working on (i) on Identity Politics in the Indian Diaspora; (ii) Indo-Lucian Diasporic History; and (iii) China-Taiwan Security Politics in the Circum-Caribbean
Teaching Interests	Teaches in the International Relations and Political Science program and in the Liberal Arts program at the University of Lynchburg.
Publications	“Sensing Hinduism: Lucian-Indian Funeral ‘Feast’ as Glocalized Ritual” (co-authored) in Religions 7 (1): 8, 2016 “SUB-CONTINENTAL LOVERS: PAKISTAN-INDIA RELATIONS” in Critical Muslim, Vol. 5, December 2012 SEX TRAFFICKING: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE – book co-edited with K. McCabe, Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington, April 2010 “GLOBALIZATION’S GENDERED CONSEQUENCES IN THE CARIBBEAN” (co-author B. Bullock), in Benjamin & Hall eds. Eternal Colonialism, University Press of America, February 2010 “Chutney, Jhanda and Kala Pani: Reaffirming Indo-Caribbean Ethno-Gender Identity”, B. Giri, ed. Thinking Territory: Some Reflections, Pencraft International, 2009 “WAR AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION THROUGH BAKHTINIAN DIAOLOGIC AND HUIZINGA’S HOMO LUDENS” in Theory as Variation ed. by R. Radhakrishnan et al. Pencraft International, New Delhi, 2007. “GEORGETOWN SHUFFLE: ETHNIC POLITICS OF AFRO-GUYANESE, AMERINDIANS, AND INDO-GUYANESE IN POSTCOLONIAL GUYANA” in Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict, ed. S. C. Saha, Lexington Books, 2006 “PEDAGOGY AND EXPERIENCE: BRINGING JAPAN INTO THE CLASSROOM,” co-authored with Dwight Lang et al, Japan Studies Review, Vol. 10, 2006: 75-91. “BLOOD, SEX & POWER: A LEARNING COMMUNITY,” with N. Sanders, Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 17(4), Winter 2005: 162-170. “ISRAELI PARTY POLITICS: WHAT IS SHAS FOR THE GOOSE IS NOT SAUCE FOR THE GANDER,” in David Lesch, ed., History in Dispute: The Middle East Since 1945, St. James Press/Gale Group, 2003. “SRI LANKAN TAMIL NATIONALISM: ITS ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES,” A.J. Wilson, book review, National Identities, 3(3) 2001: 284-287. “IDEOLOGY & CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS: INDIA, PAKISTAN AND BURMA IN THE NINETIES ,” Third World Studies Conference Proceedings, Costa Rica 1999: 227-251
Keywords	Right-wing; Extremism; Ethnic; Indo-Caribbean; regional politics;Caribbean; women; gender; security;