Mukhopadhyay, Carol C
Emerita Faculty, Anthropology
Preferred: carol.mukhopadhyay@sjsu.edu
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology, Univ of California, Riverside, USA 1980
- Masters Degree, Anthropology, CSU-Los Angeles, California, USA, 1972
- Bachelors Degree, History, Secondary Teaching Credential, Univ Of California, Berkeley, 1964, 1965.
Bio
Dr. Mukhopadhyay is a cultural anthropologist whose specialties are gender, family, sexuality, race, cultural diversity, multicultural education, cognitive anthropology, ethnographic decision-modeling, theory and methodology. Her research has focused on gendered activities, in households, politics, music, and science & engineering (STEM). This has involved fieldwork in both the United States and India.
She also has 40+ years experience teaching, doing research, consulting, and publishing in the area of race-gender-education-culture. She served as a Key Advisor on the American Anthropological Association's public education project and traveling museum exhibit, RACE: Are We So Different?
Dr. Mukhopadhyay has retired from 91ÁÔÆæ teaching but is continuing to do professional research, writing, and consulting. She also is pursuing her favorite hobbies: playing music, traveling, and enjoying nature.
KEY RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
. Mukhopadhyay, Henze, and Moses. 3rd edition. 2025.
2022. In .
Gender and Sexuality (with T. Blumenfield). Updated 2023. In 2nd Edition 2020,
Caucasian. 2020. In Goodman, Moses, Jones. RACE. 2nd edition.
Links
Key Internal Links and External Websites
- Additional race-culture-biology teaching-learning related activities. (go to this link)
- , 3rd edition. 2025.
- Teaching About Race Materials
- Professional Papers and Other Materials (update in process)
- The Cultural Context of Gendered Science: India (Mukhopadhyay)
- The Cultural Context of Gendered Science: India 2022. In Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660. (internal link coming)
- A Feminist Cognitive Anthropology: The Case of Women and Mathematics