Shiva is currently our "techie" (officially: Coordinator, Multicultural Educational Technology) who designed the office website, and designs and maintains several other educational websites related to diversity on the campus. She also facilitates Intergroup Dialogues; works on the new Ford INTERACT project which integrates intergroup dialogues in curricula; and serves on the Faculty Relations Committee, and the University System of Maryland Faculty Diversity Network

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 incuding a recent article on "Catalog-ing Ethnicity: Clothing as Cultural Citizenship" in the journal Interventions. She also has written 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 (forthcoming from Duke University Press). 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 the A/PI Domestic Violence Resource Project a pan-Asian community group, and several other local grassroots organizations related to LGBT issues.

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 the humanities soul!

You may email her at shivas@umd.edu or call her at 301.405.8287