# Dr. Veena Kulkarni

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Contact Information  
**Phone**: [(870) 972-3331](https://kb.astate.edu/870-972-3331)  
[vkulkarni@astate.edu  ](mailto: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.