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Joya Misra is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[1]

Early life and education

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Misra earned her bachelor's degree in Religion from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1988, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from Emory University in 1994.[2][3] She is a second-generation immigrant who grew up in the South.[2][3]

Academic career

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Professor Misra joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia in 1994, where she was affiliated with Women’s Studies. In 1999, she joined the Department of Sociology and Center for Public Policy & Administration at the University of Massachusetts, with affiliations with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and Labor Studies program.[3] In 2009, she was promoted to Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the university. She has served as interim Sociology Department Chair and the Graduate Program Director,[4] as well as Director of the Institute for Social Science Research[5] and Director of ADVANCE Programming.[6]

Organizations

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Misra is the President-Elect of the American Sociological Association.[3] Prior to her election in 2022, she served several leadership roles for the ASA, including Vice President, Council Member, Chair of the ASA Distinguished Book Committee, Chair of the Sex and Gender Section, and Chair of the Race, Gender, and Class Section. From 2011 to 2015, Misra was the editor of Gender & Society.[7]

Major works

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The intersection of gender and race in the labor market

In her 2003 article co-authored with Irene Browne, Misra identifies how the intersection of race and gender shape the US labor market, including wage inequality; discrimination and stereotyping; and immigration and domestic labor, establishing intersectionality as a foundational perspective to understand labor market inequalities.[8]

Misra’s scholarship focuses on inequalities by gender and gender identity, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, citizenship, parenthood status and educational level.[9] Much of her work considers how policies may both reinforce and lessen inequalities. Her research on work-family policies uses a cross-national perspective, with a focus on ways that social policies can entrench or remediate existing inequalities. Her collaborative work further considers how culture intersects with structure, to explain where and when policies are most effective.[10]

With Kyla Walters, she published a book that focuses on how retail work is organized in the 21st century.[11] This work explores how race, gender, and class condition workers' experiences with managers, co-workers, and customers. It also considers more deeply how race and gender shape the aesthetic labor that retail clothing workers must do.

Awards and honors

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Joya Misra’s numerous awards include the Eastern Sociological Society Public Sociology Award (2022),[12] the Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair (2022-2024),[13] the University of Massachusetts Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship (2020–21),[14] and the University of Massachusetts Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow (2016–17).[15] Misra's research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation.[16][17] In 2009 she won the inaugural World Bank/Luxembourg Income Study Gender Research Award.[18]

Misra is a celebrated teacher and mentor, receiving the Sociologists for Women in Society Mentoring Award in 2010.[19] At the University of Massachusetts, she was awarded the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award (2004–05)[20] and the Sociology Mentoring Award (2009–10, 2014–15).[21]

References

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  1. ^ "| Sociology | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  2. ^ a b Misra, Joya (February 2012). "Introduction: Well, How Did I Get Here?". Gender & Society. 26 (1): 5–13. doi:10.1177/0891243211429683. ISSN 0891-2432. S2CID 220374096.
  3. ^ a b c d "Joya Misra Elected 115th ASA President; Jennifer A. Reich Voted Vice President". www.newswise.com. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  4. ^ "Joya Misra | University of Massachusetts Amherst - Academia.edu". umass.academia.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  5. ^ "Joya Misra appointed Director of ISSR | Institute for Social Science Research | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  6. ^ "Who We Are | ADVANCE Program". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  7. ^ "Joya Misra | UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab". en.unesco.org. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  8. ^ Browne, Irene; Misra, Joya (August 2003). "The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market". Annual Review of Sociology. 29 (1): 487–513. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.100016. ISSN 0360-0572.
  9. ^ "ARC Network". www.equityinstem.org. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  10. ^ Budig, Michelle; Misra, Joya; Boeckmann, Irene (2012). "The Motherhood Wage Penalty in Cross-National Perspective: The Importance of Work-Family Policies and Cultural Attitudes?". Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society. 19 (2): 163–193. doi:10.1093/sp/jxs006. hdl:10419/95390. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
  11. ^ Misra, Joya; Walters, Kyla (2022). Walking Mannequins: How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work. Univ of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-38465-1.
  12. ^ "Public Sociology Award". Ess Net. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  13. ^ "UMass Amherst Social Inequality Researcher Receives Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair : UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  14. ^ "Misra Awarded Conti Faculty Fellowship Award | School of Public Policy (SPP) | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  15. ^ "Chancellor's Leadership Fellowship | Office of Faculty Development". Office of Faculty Development : UMass Amherst. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  16. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1022183 - Collaborative Research: Work-Family Policy and Poverty". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  17. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1824090 - ADVANCE IT - Collaboration and Equity: The Resources, Relationships, and Recognition (R3) Model for Advancing Women and Underrepresented Faculty in Science and Engineering". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  18. ^ "Budig and Misra win World Bank/Luxembourg Income Study Gender Research Award". News & Media Relations. 2009-03-11. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  19. ^ "SWS Mentoring Award". Sociologists for Women in Society. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  20. ^ "SBS Outstanding Teaching Award | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  21. ^ "Mentoring | Sociology | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
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