Manisha Desai
Professor and Executive Director of The Center for Changing Systems of Power |
Ph.D. Washington University, 1990 |
Areas of Interest
Gender and Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, Human Rights and Social Movements
Bio
Manisha Desai is the Executive Director of Center for Changing Systems of Power and the Empowerment Trust Endowed Professor of Global Citizenship at Stony Brook University. Her areas of research and teaching include gender and globalization/development, transnational feminisms, global justice, particularly climate justice movements and human rights. She is a senior research associate of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and a member of the Global Network for Research and Action for a new eco-social contract. She has served in many leadership capacities including as President of Sociologists for Women in Society and received several awards for her scholarship and mentoring.
Selected Publications
Desai, M, Ntona, M, Selgado, M, and Webster, E. (2025). Lost or Found? Human Rights in Eco-Social Justice Narratives. Open Global Rights.
Desai, M. (2025). Some reflections on ‘How should we think about globalization in a postglobalization era?’. Dialogues in Sociology, 1(1), 42-45.
Desai, M. (2024). From Invisibility towards Justice: The march of the marginalized citizens of Mumbai”. Miscellanea Geographica, 28(4), 156-159.
Desai, M. (2024). Beyond Sustainable Development, to Sustainable Societies. Sociology of Development, 11(1), 38–48.