Background
Prema Kurien was born in Kerala, India.
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She attended the Women"s Christian College, Chennai, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, and the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, where she gained an Master of Arts After moving to the United States she attended Brown University, Providence earning Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Sociology.
Career
She specializes in the interplay between religion and immigration experiences, with focus on people from India. She has written a number of articles and books on aspects of this subject. Degree in Sociology.
Prema Kurien was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Knox College, from 1992 to 1994, then Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Director of the Human Diversity Program at Chapman University from 1994 to 1995.
From 1995 to 2003 she was Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Southern California, then obtained her present position of Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Syracuse University. She has received post-doctoral fellowships and grants from the Carnegie Corporation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Louisville Institute.
She was a Fellow and then an Affiliate Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion in Princeton University between 2000 and 2003. She was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from September 2006 to May 2007.
Prema Kurien has participated in the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the Religion section of the American Sociological Association.
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Membership
She is a member of the editorial board of the American Sociological Review and the annual publication of Society for Asian North American Christian Studies. She is a member of the National Science Foundation Dissertation Panel.
