University of Melbourne

Melbourne International Research Scholar, Melbourne Graduate School of Education

Other Affiliations: Monash University (Australia), Education

Melbourne International Research Scholar

Melbourne Graduate School of Education

About

Mousumi Mukherjee is a Fulbright alumna from India. She has 10 years experience of teaching and research in India and in the United States. In 2007 she received the Medallion for contribution in International Education by Phi Beta Delta Honor Society and the Civic Engagement award by The Washington Center. She earned M.A and M.Phil (with thesis in Comparative Literature analyzing the modernist movement in Indian writing and the influence of T.S. Eliot on modernist Indian poets) degrees in English from the University of Calcutta (India). Her research work involved cultural studies and gender studies. She taught English language and literature at an urban high school for a year and at an urban college for 4 years before traveling to the US on a Fulbright scholarship in 2005. In August 2010 she earned an MA degree in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies with concentration in Comparative and International Education from Loyola University Chicago (USA) and a thesis on the global civic-mindedness and engagement among two groups of undergraduate American college students studying abroad in Italy and China. She graduated in December 2011 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) with an Ed. M in Educational Policy Studies with concentration in Global Studies in Education.

In the US she has designed and taught courses in Hindi, Indian Film Studies, and interdisciplinary courses in Black World Studies at the undergraduate level. She has worked as co-instructor for online Master's level Educational Policy Studies courses in “Globalization and Educational Policy” and “Technology and Educational Reform” with Prof. Fazal Rizvi and Prof. Nicholas Burbules for Global Studies in Education program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has also conducted preliminary field research, data collection and analysis with Prof. Cameron McCarthy and Dr Johannah Fahey in Barbados for "The Elite independent schools in globalising circumstances: a multi-sited global ethnography" research project funded by the Australian Research Council, while studying at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Her current research interest focuses on social, cultural and economic aspects of globalization and educational policy reform. Recently, she received the Melbourne International Research Scholarship to pursue her post-graduate doctoral research at the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education (Australia). She is also engaged in the process of compiling and co-editing special edition of the internationally peer-reviewed journal "Policy Future in Education" (http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/editorialboard.asp) on the topic of "Indian Education at the Crossroads of Postcoloniality, Globalization and the 21st C Knowledge Economy" with Prof. Michael A. Peters.

She is research associate for a project at Monash University- "Elite independent schools in globalizing circumstances: a multi-sited global ethnography" (http://www.education.monash.edu.au/research/projects/elite-schools/) and a project of the Australia-India Institute to generate policy debates and to archive research based resources online at "Global Forum on Indian Higher Education" (www.gfihe.org), supported by Universities around the world. She is one of the founding members and secretary of South Asia (SIG) at the Comparative and International Education Society (http://cies.us/SIGS/south_asia/index.htm), a life member of Comparative Education Society India and a Congress Standing Committee member of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (http://www.wcces.net/).