Academic Life
Amrita Basu has served on several editorial boards including the board of The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars since 1992, and the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism since 2002 and 2001, respectively. She was the South Asia editor for The Journal of Asian Studies from 1995-2001. Basu also has served on several academic committees including as the Chair of the Women and Politics Council of The American Political Science Association from 2005-2006. She has served on an external committees at Mount Holyoke, Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 2001, Basu was a consultant to the United Nations Development Program Project on Women and Governance in New Delhi, India. Basu has served on several advisory and selection committees including the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Scholar Awards Committee, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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