Professor Emerita, Department of International & Global Studies, August 2023- present; Professor, September 1999 – July 2023 (Associate Professor, 1992-1999; Assistant Professor, 1988-1992) [the name changed from International Studies to International & Global Studies in 2021]
Head, Department of International Studies, March 2009 – March 2016
Undergraduate Studies Director (interim), Department of International Studies, January – June 2016
Graduate Studies Director, Department of International Studies, September 2005 – September 2009; September – December 2011
Professor, UO Insight Seminars Women and Islam, May 2016; Militant Islam, April 2014; Fiction of Pakistan, January 2011; Indian Film January 2009; Women and Islam, February 2008 (This is an initiative to offer month-long courses to community members in Eugene)
Undergraduate Studies Director, International Studies Program, University of Oregon, September 1995-July 2002
Interim Director, International Studies Program, May – Sept 1995, July -September 1996, July – August 1997, November 1998 – January 1999, July -August 1999, March-June 2008
Elsewhere
Visiting Professor, Lahore College for Women University, to teach South Asia: Development and Social Change, January 3-16, 2019
Visiting Professor, Semester at Sea Program (University of Pittsburgh, International Studies Program), Fall Semester, August – December 2002 (while on sabbatical leave from Oregon)
Lecturer (tenure-track), Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, 1985-1987
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, January 1984 – May 1985
Visiting Lecturer, Semester at Sea Program (University of Pittsburgh, International Studies Program), Fall Semester, 1983
Applied Professional Experience
Organizer/coordinator, doctoral dissertation workshop series in Islamabad in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan, and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, 2007 – 2012. This has now become a competitive selection process.
November 1-3, 2010: ran a 3-day doctoral dissertation workshop (with Dr. Saba Gul Khattak) for doctoral students concentrating on women and gender issues in Pakistan;
January 28-30, 2013: ran another 3-day doctoral dissertation workshop (with Dr. Pervez Pathan, University of Sindh @ Jamshoro) for doctoral students concentrating on women and gender issues in Pakistan
Country Expert testimony/witness consultant on various asylum cases and other legal cases involving Pakistani, (especially women, Balochis, Shi’as, Christians, Ahmediyas and other minorities), Afghan and Indian citizens in the U.S.; assisted various lawyers in preparation of cases concerning detainees at Guantanamo Bay; and conducted informational trainings (SF INS office, August 1998, and consultant to that office on other occasions) on human rights and sociopolitical issues in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India affecting asylum and other legal cases, 1996 – present.
External Guest Lecturer for TOEFL exam, Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, 2006
State-wide Coordinator of Oregon’s participation in nationwide teleconference on September 28, 1996, organized by the President’s Interagency Council for Women, to develop an Action Agenda to empower women and families in the U.S. for the coming decade
Consultant on domestic violence to the Asia Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan, to facilitate creation of a research agenda to address perceptions of domestic violence and NGO responses, March-April 1996
Participant in Briefing Session at the White House, as part of being a member of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Women’s Conference Circle” to implement the Beijing Platform for Action in the U.S., January 24, 1996
Field Director, Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (Lahore), October 1994 – February 1995
International team of election observers member, National Democratic Institute for International Affair’s observation mission of national and provincial elections in Pakistan, October 1993
Principal Consultant in the Future’s Group’s (Washington, D.C.) successful bid on sub-contracting women-in-development responsibilities from USAID, 1989
Principal Consultant with DEVRES on an Evaluation and Development Information Methods IQC, 1989-1992
Consultant to USAID in Islamabad, Pakistan, contributing to the DEVRES report entitled “U.S. Economic Assistance to Pakistan: Review of the Period 1982-87,” March – April 1988. In particular, I wrote the assessment for social sector projects and crosscutting social issues, including women and development, population planning, health, and opium poppy substitution programs.
Educational Consultant to the Bowring Refugee Camp (administered by the Save The Children Foundation), Tuen Mun, N.T., Hong Kong, October 1986 – December 1987. I worked with the social services coordinator to develop educational programs for adult Vietnamese women interned in the closed camp.
Consultant to Social Development Division, ESCAP, United Nations headquarters, Bangkok, July 1986; I worked on strategies to expand their women and development activities in South Asia
Social Scientist, accompanying the American Medical Student Association’s Pakistan Study Tour, Summer 1983, in Pakistan. Focus: rural and urban health care problems.
