Dr. Ranjana Raghunathan

Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Design Studies
Former Adjunct Faculty, Singapore University of Social Sciences
Adjunct Lecturer & Tutor, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Ph.D. South Asian Studies, NUS
MA in Social Work, TISS, Mumbai

Selected Publications

• "Movement in Verse: Poetry as Ethnographic Dialogue" in Decolonial Subversions 2023. Read More
• (Under Review) “Entangled intimacies: Negotiating kinship and religious embodiments amongst Tamil Hindu women in Singapore” in Religion and Society 2021.
• “Everyday intimacies and inter-ethnic relationships: Tracing entanglements of gender and race in multicultural Singapore”. Sociological Research Online 2021. Read More
• “Migrant Intimacies and Ambiguities of Law: The Case of Wife Enticement among Indians in Colonial Singapore, 1900–1940”. Gender and History (first published online on 22 March 2021) Read More

• 2022. (with Yogeswaran Doraisingham) “Tracing transformations in Hindu marriage and Funeral rituals in Singapore” In Hinduism in Singapore and the Hindu Endowments Board, edited by Lavanya Balachandran and Sylvia Koh. (Singapore: Hindu Endowments Board), pp 118-63.
• 2022. “Preface: The Untold Histories of Singapore’s Indian Women” In What we inherit: Growing Up Indian, edited by Shailey Hingorani and Varsha Sivaram. (AWARE Singapore, Ethos Books), pp 25-40
• 2019. “For better or for worse: Tamil women in marriage and society” In Sojourners to settlers: Tamils in Singapore Edited by Arun Mahizhnan and Nalina Gopal. (Singapore: Indian Heritage Centre and Institute of Policy Studies), pp 136-49
• 2014. “Street Diaries: Gender, Poverty and Homelessness in Mumbai.” In Understanding Urban Poverty in India: Experiences from Mumbai, Edited by Olivier Brito and Aditya Singh. (Jaipur: Rawat Publications), pp 55 – 78

• 2022. Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore, by Sharon Ee Ling Quah, 2020 published in the Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol 50, Issue 1, March 2022, pp 74-75 Read More

• 2015. Ranjana Raghunathan et.al. “People with physical disabilities in Singapore: Understanding disabling factors in caregiving, education, employment and finances.” (Singapore Management University: Lien Centre for Social Innovation)