Mukhopadhyay, Carol C

Mukhopadhyay, Carol C

Emerita Faculty, Anthropology

Email

Preferred: carol.mukhopadhyay@sjsu.edu

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology, Univ of California, Riverside, USA 1980
  • Masters Degree, Anthropology, CSU-Los Angeles, California, USA, 1972
  • Bachelors Degree, History, Secondary Teaching Credential, Univ Of California, Berkeley, 1964, 1965. 

Bio

Dr. Mukhopadhyay is a cultural anthropologist whose specialties are gender, family, sexuality, race, cultural diversity, multicultural education, cognitive anthropology, ethnographic decision-modeling, theory and methodology. Her research has focused on gendered activities, in households, politics, and in science & engineering (STEM). This has involved fieldwork in both the United States and India.

She also has 40+ years experience teaching, doing research, consulting, and publishing in the area of race-gender-education-culture. She served as a Key Advisor on the American Anthropological Association's public education project and traveling museum exhibit, RACE: Are We So Different?

Dr. Mukhopadhyay retired from SJSU teaching in 2011 but is continuing to do professional research, writing, and consulting.  She also is pursuing her favorite hobbies: playing chamber music and traveling.

KEY RECENT PUBLICATIONS. (in process)

How Real is Race? Unraveling Race, Biology, and Culture. Mukhopadhyay, Henze, and Moses. 3rd edition. 2025. 

The Cultural Context of Gendered Science: India.  2022. In  The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660. 

Gender and Sexuality (with T. Blumenfield).  Updated 2023. In 2nd Edition 2020,  Perspectives: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Caucasian. 2020. In Goodman, Moses, Jones. RACE. 2nd edition. 

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