Kanchana N Ruwanpura
Job Title
Professor of Human Geography at the University of Gothenburg
Profile
Kanchana N Ruwanpura (PhD, Cambridge) is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She and Wilfried Swenden Co-Directed the Centre for South Asian Studies between 2015-2018 at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland where she used to work at the Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh.
Kanchana’s research spans feminism, ethnic politics, labour and global governance, and feminist critical pedagogies. She is the author of two monographs (Cambridge University Press, University of Michigan Press/ZUBAAN), four edited volumes and several peer-reviewed academic articles in journals and edited volumes.
Her research has been funded by the ESRC, NERC-AHRC-ESRC, British Academy, UGC-UKIERI and ERC, where she has been PI or CoI as a team member. She also holds an editorial post at Gender, Place and Culture and served in the same capacity for Feminist Economics and Geoforum.