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Suhashni Datta-Sandhu
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Associate Professor Faculty Supervisor, African Studies at Cape Town Study Abroad Program 3432 Friedmann Hall (269) 387-5365 |
Suhashni (Sushi) Datta-Sandhu received her PhD from the University of Nairobi in 1979. She is interested in African political systems, gender and development, gender and international environmental politics, and democratization. Her most research led to "Urban Development and the Built Environment: The Struggle to Maintain Nairobi as the Green City in the Sun," Shaping the Urban Future: International Perspectives and Exchanges, Vol. 3 Conference Papers, University of Bristol, 1994. Dr. Datta-Sandhu teaches courses on African political systems, women in developing societies, and gender and development. Women in Developing Societies is a course that that critically investigates the complex ways in which gender relations shape history, ideology, economy, and polity in developing societies. Her Gender and Development Seminar is a graduate course designed to introduce theories of gender and development. Women's contributions to development in various societies are analyzed, taking into account ethnicity, class, colonial domination, capitalist penetration, modernization, and development policies.