Dr. Veena Kulkarni

Contact Information
Phone: (870) 972-3331
vkulkarni@astate.edu
Office: HSS 3073

Associate Professor of Sociology

Graduate Program Coordinator

Biography

Veena Kulkarni joined Arkansas State University after completing her Ph.D in Sociology with specialization in Demography and Development from University of Maryland –College Park. Her research interests lie at the intersections of studying social and economic inequalities with the focus on labor market processes and indicators, health and educational outcomes in the context of developing and developed countries. Her work has appeared in peer reviewed journals such as Demography, International Migration Review, International Review of Applied Economics, Journal of Developing Areas, Social Science Research, Sociological Forum, World Development and as book chapters published by the Sage Publication and Oxford University Press. She is presently working on a book manuscript, ‘Indian Immigrants in Developed Democracies: A Cross-National Study’, to be published by Routledge as part of the ‘Routledge Studies of Diasporic Peoples’. 

Education

Ph.D., University of Maryland-College Park (Sociology)
M.A., Delhi University (Economics)
Teaching Specialties
Population & Development
Social Demography
Statistics
Social Problems
Research Methods
Research Interests
International Migration
Social Inequalities in Education & Health
Labor Market Processes & Outcomes

Affiliations

American Sociological Association
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
Population Association of America

Recent Publications

• Kulkarni, Veena. ‘Household Extension and Earnings among Foreign Born Asian and non-Hispanic White Households’, Journal of Family Issues, Forthcoming.
• Rukus, Joseph and Veena Kulkarni. ‘Easier Said than Done: Methodological Challenges in Exploring Prevalence of Mental Health Illness among Rural Jail Inmates in the United States’, International Journal of Rural Criminology, Forthcoming.
  Kulkarni, Veena, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha. ‘Has Disability Risen among the Elderly in India?’, Economic and Political Weekly, Forthcoming.
• Kulkarni, Veena and Douglas F. Barnes. 2017.‘Education in Rural Peru: Exploring the Role of Household Electrification in School Enrollment’, Journal of Research in Rural Education, 32(10): 1-19.