Dr. Sunita S. Mukhi, Director of Asian and Asian American Programs for the Charles B. Wang Center, is a cultural manager, performance scholar, and artist. She has a B.A. in behavioral sciences and in literature from De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines; an M.A. degree in interdisciplinary studies in the social sciences from San Francisco State University; and a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University.
Sunita MukhiShe comes to Stony Brook from the Asia Society, where she was Senior Program Associate for Multidisciplinary Projects and Asian American Connections in the Cultural Programs Division. Born and bred in the Philippines of South Asian origin, having short stints in Mumbai and Singapore, and having lived the last 17 years in the United States, has provided Dr. Mukhi with an international understanding of migration and the global interconnectedness of peoples.
"I look forward to helping make the Wang Center a vital space for multidisciplinary and multicultural dialogues," said Ms. Muhki. "The Center is a site of such beauty and possibility that I can imagine Stony Brook University growing into an even more vibrant hub for the arts, culture, and intellect."
As a cultural manager, Dr. Mukhi has produced innovative programming in her position at the Asia Society as Senior Programs Associate for Multidisciplinary Projects and Asian American Community Connections. She has presided over, participated in, and moderated numerous panel discussions, and given lectures and addresses on topics ranging from identity politics, performativity, arts, and the South Asian diaspora. She is also currently teaching at the Asian Pacific American Studies program at New York University.
Her work appears in Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, Art Spiral, and Little India magazine. The essay "Underneath My Blouse Beats My Indian Heart: Indian Womanhood, Hindi Film Dance, and Nationalism" has been printed in A Patchwork Shawl (Rutgers University Press, 1998), and her most recent book is Doing the Desi Thing: Performing Indianness in New York City (Garland Publishing/Routledge, 2000).
She has performed, directed, and choreographed in university, community, and professional theatrical, television, and film productions in Manila, the United States, Mexico, and Singapore. She is also a story-teller and appears in numerous family day events at the Asia Society, the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and other venues.
Sunita MukhiShe comes to Stony Brook from the Asia Society, where she was Senior Program Associate for Multidisciplinary Projects and Asian American Connections in the Cultural Programs Division. Born and bred in the Philippines of South Asian origin, having short stints in Mumbai and Singapore, and having lived the last 17 years in the United States, has provided Dr. Mukhi with an international understanding of migration and the global interconnectedness of peoples.
"I look forward to helping make the Wang Center a vital space for multidisciplinary and multicultural dialogues," said Ms. Muhki. "The Center is a site of such beauty and possibility that I can imagine Stony Brook University growing into an even more vibrant hub for the arts, culture, and intellect."
As a cultural manager, Dr. Mukhi has produced innovative programming in her position at the Asia Society as Senior Programs Associate for Multidisciplinary Projects and Asian American Community Connections. She has presided over, participated in, and moderated numerous panel discussions, and given lectures and addresses on topics ranging from identity politics, performativity, arts, and the South Asian diaspora. She is also currently teaching at the Asian Pacific American Studies program at New York University.
Her work appears in Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, Art Spiral, and Little India magazine. The essay "Underneath My Blouse Beats My Indian Heart: Indian Womanhood, Hindi Film Dance, and Nationalism" has been printed in A Patchwork Shawl (Rutgers University Press, 1998), and her most recent book is Doing the Desi Thing: Performing Indianness in New York City (Garland Publishing/Routledge, 2000).
She has performed, directed, and choreographed in university, community, and professional theatrical, television, and film productions in Manila, the United States, Mexico, and Singapore. She is also a story-teller and appears in numerous family day events at the Asia Society, the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and other venues.