Dr. Brian Turnbull is currently a Visiting Instructor at the University of South Florida on the Sarasota-Manatee campus. His research and teaching encompass a broad array of topics including: gender quotas and substantive representation, human rights, South Asian politics, and ethnic cleavages and democracy. He is currently revising a book manuscript, “Women Who Only Serve Chai: Gender Reservations and Autonomy in India”, which is based on qualitative interviews with city councilors in Jaipur, India and explores the challenges to building representation through gender quotas for women within a patriarchal society. Specifically, he finds that while the number of women elected has improved, these women continue to be considerably constrained by societal norms to the point many are unable to fully perform their official responsibilities or are even supplanted by male members of their family who exercise power through them as proxies.
Through teaching Dr. Turnbull is focused on helping young minds develop into the future involved and informed citizens and leaders our country and the world needs. We all benefit from a society of individuals who are able to independently gather, criticize and process the mass of information we receive on a daily basis. Towards this end, he centers his teaching and classwork on the development of critical thinking and challenging standard perceptions. As an instructor who values experiential learning opportunities, he has developed an exciting new study abroad based on the connections made this past January at the Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ Exploring Urban Sustainability faculty development seminar in India, which was designed to develop partnerships across American and Indian universities. In collaboration with USFSM Global Engagement, he has established a three-week service-learning study abroad that he will lead to Mysore, India in summer 2020, which will be the first of its kind at USF. In class, students will analyze sustainability from gendered perspectives with a focus on South Asia. They will then take these lessons into the field and work with a local NGO to support local communities in skills training, product marketing and preventative health services.
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Through teaching Dr. Turnbull is focused on helping young minds develop into the future involved and informed citizens and leaders our country and the world needs. We all benefit from a society of individuals who are able to independently gather, criticize and process the mass of information we receive on a daily basis. Towards this end, he centers his teaching and classwork on the development of critical thinking and challenging standard perceptions. As an instructor who values experiential learning opportunities, he has developed an exciting new study abroad based on the connections made this past January at the Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ Exploring Urban Sustainability faculty development seminar in India, which was designed to develop partnerships across American and Indian universities. In collaboration with USFSM Global Engagement, he has established a three-week service-learning study abroad that he will lead to Mysore, India in summer 2020, which will be the first of its kind at USF. In class, students will analyze sustainability from gendered perspectives with a focus on South Asia. They will then take these lessons into the field and work with a local NGO to support local communities in skills training, product marketing and preventative health services.
Email:
[email protected]
ResearchGate
orcid.org/0000-0001-5353-2316