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Shiva designs, develops, and maintains several
diversity-related websites for OHRP
including a portal site Equity and
Diversity @UMD. She also maintains the four President's
Commissions websites for the Office of the President. At OHRP, she works with the
Words of Engagement: An Intergroup Dialogue
Program and conducts the facilitator training workshops each
semester. She also facilitates dialogues, conducts diversity related workshops
and trainings across campus on a variety of issues including but not limited to
gender, sexual orientation, immigration, nationality, and religion. Shiva worked on the two-year Ford Foundation funded INTERACT (Intergroup Dialogue as Pedagogy Across the
Curriculum) project which integrates intergroup dialogues in curricula;
and serves on the Faculty Relations Committee, and the University System of Maryland Faculty Diversity Network.
At the Office of LGBT Equity, Shiva has now set up an online tutorial for the Speaker's Bureau; and is working on developing a mentoring program, primarily for LGBT students of color. Her primary areas of research are African American, Asian American, and Chicana feminist theories and literatures, and she has taught at Macalester College, Drake University, and the University of Maryland. She has published on popular culture including a recent article on "Catalog-ing Ethnicity: Clothing as Cultural Citizenship" in the journal Interventions. She has written and spoken extensively on the issue of part-time and adjunct labor in the academic world, and organized on their behalf. Her article "(In)Different Spaces: Feminist Journeys from the Academy to a Mall" is included in Women's Studies on Its Own edited by Robyn Weigman (Duke University Press, 2001). She also presents regularly at various national conferences, and is a member of the National Association of Multicultural Education, American Studies Association, Modern Languages Association, and the National Women's Studies Association. She is a feminist activist, and serves on the board of several local community organizations, including the A/PI Domestic Violence Resource Project a pan-Asian community group; with Khush-DC a local South Asian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender organization; Third-I DC, an independent voluntary group that brings independent and documentary South Asian filmmakers to the area to foster discussion and education; and works with the DC Collective for South Asians. In her varied career, she is most happy to report that she also managed a coffee shop for several years that allowed her to continue her scholarship in a way that being an adjunct could not. She also realized, much to her consternation, that there lurked "a geek" in her humanities soul! You may email her at shivas@umd.edu or call her at 301.405.8287 |
Shiva has been with OHRP since
2001, and also wears an additional hat as Coordinator, Outreach and
Special Projects for the