Lata Murti Ph.D.
Lata Murti, Ph.D.
PRIMARY SPECIALTY
Social Sciences
Biography
Dr. Lata Murti is Associate Professor of Sociology for the School of Arts and Sciences at University of Massachusetts Global. She led the revision of the Bachelor of Arts in Sociology Program, designing a competitive and cutting-edge curriculum with practical and professional relevance. The recipient of UMass Global’s 2015 Outstanding University Faculty of the Year Award, Dr. Murti has received recognition for both her pedagogy and her publications, from organizations such as the National Institute of Learning Outcomes Assessment, the National Center for Institutional Diversity, and Universal Publishers’ Dissertation.com, which selected her dissertation on the racial experience of Indian immigrant doctors for its 2015 Annual Excellence Award. Dr. Murti holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California. She has presented at numerous conferences related to teaching and sociology, in addition to publishing on these topics for several peer-reviewed journals, the SAGE Research Methods Cases collection, Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia, and the Work in Progress blog of the American Sociological Association.
Specialty
- Social Sciences
- Diversity
Education
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Dissertation: “With and Without the White Coat: The Racialization of Southern California's Indian Physicians”
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Areas of Concentration: American Studies, Creative Writing and Religious Studies
Scholarly Activities
2021
Co-Editor, Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Today’s Teachers: Educators at Intersections, Springer Press
Author, “Embodying Institutional Intersections: Juvenile School Educators as Agents of Survival,” in Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Today’s Teachers: Educators at Intersections, Springer Press
Assistant Editor and Contributor, Our Voices Our Stories: An Anthology of Writings Advancing, Celebrating, Embracing and
2019
Empowering Girls and Women of Color
Professional Experiences
The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
In the Asian American department - Lead taught course I created, on the ways that South Asian American experiences complicate the field of Asian American Studies.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
In the American Studies and Ethnicity department: Lead taught interdisciplinary course on the continuing significance of The Vietnam War for Viet Nam, the U.S., the Vietnamese Diaspora, and Vietnamese Americans.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Led discussion groups for four courses; taught two beginning-level Spanish courses; helped grade papers for two upper-level undergraduate seminar courses; and supported the events and research of the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration as well as the research of Professor of Sociology, Dr. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.