Dr
Lakshmi Lingam is currently a Professor with the School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai.
Dr
Lakshmi Lingam was the Deputy Director at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), in Hyderabad from May 2011- May 2016. In this position she had provided leadership in envisioning a new campus, hiring new teams of Faculty and researchers, building relationships with the government, non-government organizations and civil society groups, and offering new academic programs that significantly strengthened social sciences education and research.
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Lakshmi is a well-known gender specialist. She was a scholar on the International Visitors Leadership program of the USIA; a Fulbright New Century Scholar during 2004-5 and a Nehru-Fulbright Fellow in 2015. Dr
Lingam was an Indo-Shastri Visiting Scholar associated with the University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada (2011); Visiting Fellow, Gender, Sexuality and Law Fellowship program, School of Law, Keele University, Keele, North Staffordshire (2007).
Dr
Lakshmi Lingam is on the Curriculum Advisory Boards, Executive Committees and Academic Councils of several Indian Universities as well as a member of Technical and Ethical Advisory Boards, Internal Complaints Committees of academic, GO and NGOs. In addition to her outstanding teaching and research activities, she has contributed to gender and equity mainstreaming activities of Government departments in a number of states in India. She was the General Secretary of the Indian Association for Women Studies during the period 2000 -2002. Dr
Lakshmiwas a member of the National Resource Group of the Government of India, Mahila Samakhya program for women’s empowerment under the Ministry of HRD.
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Lakshmi has undertaken several national and international research projects, evaluation studies and has traveled widely within and outside the country for carrying out research, giving lectures and participating in conferences. She has published widely in national and international peer-reviewed journals and supervises several research students.