Paola Bacchetta

Paola Bacchetta is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She is also the Director of the Beatrice Bain Research Group (BBRG), Berkeley’s research center for gender, sexuality and race. Her Ph.D. is in sociology from The Sorbonne, Paris. Her geo-political areas of specialization outside the U.S. are India and France. She is author of Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologists (New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2003), and co-editor of Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists around the World (New York: Routledge, 2002). She has published many book chapters and articles on gender, sexuality, “race”-racism, postcoloniality, political conflict, space, social movements and social movement subjects (feminist, lesbian, queer, right-wing) in journals such as Social Text; Feminist Studies; Journal of Women’s History; Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography; Growth and Change; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. She is Co-Director (with Trinh T. Minh-ha) of the Committee for a Graduate Group Program in Transnational Feminist Studies at UC Berkeley. Her current research is two-fold: on sexuality in Hindu nationalism, and on sexuated “race”-racism and lesbians “of color” in France.