Febuary 14th, 2008
Hailing from Calcutta, India, Sabita Manian joined Tulane’s graduate program in the Fall of 1987. Her dissertation (directed by Dr. James Cochrane), on German federalism as a model for the European Union, was enriched by an exchange scholarship she received at the Free University of Berlin. Her encounters in Germany led her to shift her post-dissertation research focus to issues of political extremism including neo-Nazi politics and extremist discourse in Europe, South Asia and the Caribbean. As ABD she first taught at the Newcomb College’s Center for Research on Women as an adjunct until her full-time tenure track position at Stephens College, MO (1994-2001) where she received her tenure in 2000 and was promoted to Associate Professor. In 2003, she accepted a position at Lynchburg College, Virginia, where she is now a tenured Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science and International Relations programs. She loves her academic career and is much encouraged by her program’s growth and her students’ postgraduate career paths. Lynchburg College was recently honored by inclusion as one of only forty colleges nationwide featured in a new edition of Colleges That Change Lives; U.S. News & World Report ranks Lynchburg College in the top tier of Southern universities and colleges that offer a full range of undergraduate programs and master's degrees in its America's Best Colleges 2008 publication. During her sabbatical this Spring (2008) she is busy co-editing a book manuscript on Global Sex Trafficking (Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington, 2009), revising an article on China and Taiwan’s foreign policy in the Caribbean, and preparing to lead her third group of Study Abroad students, this time on a Service Learning trip to Saint Lucia in the Caribbean. Professor Manian has published widely on international relations, ethnic conflict, and Asian Politics.
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