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As a full professor, I am on sabbatical leave between June and December 2025. I served as the Senior Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs in the Office of the Provost at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond between Fall 2022 and May 2025. Previously, I was the Butler Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence (Butler Center) at Purdue University, West Lafayette (2017-22). I was the State Co-Director of the American Council on Education-Women’s Network in Indiana (ACE-WN-IN) between 2019 and 2022.

My projects focus on how the disadvantaged organize to make claims to basic needs and rights. I have published four books and a fifth one on promotions is forthcoming in 2025. More recently, I am studying faculty satisfaction at universities. Some ongoing studies include examining associate professors' satisfaction with recognition considering the 'hidden hurdles' they face.

Book Series: I am the Editor for the book series, Navigating Careers in Higher Education, Purdue University Press. Book proposals continue to be accepted. Contact the Series Editor if needed. Also see Purdue University Press blog on the series, 'What is #NextUP at Purdue University Press: A Series is Born and a Friend is Made.'

I currently serve as the Parliamentarian of the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS). I am also a member of the SWS Presidential team. I have held elected offices as Treasurer of the Sociologists for Women in Society and Secretary/Treasurer and Council Member of the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association. In addition, I served as a member of the Editorial Board of Gender and Society, the premier scholarly sociological journal for gender-related research. I was the Associate Editor of Social Problems, a major journal in sociology, between 2018 and 2021. I served as the Chair-elect (2021-22) of the Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, and as Chair in 2022-2023.

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GRANTS, INVITED WEBINARS, HONORS, & FEATURED IN

Susan Kornstein, Barbara Boyan, and Mangala Subramaniam (PIs), VCU National Coordinating Center for Advancing Gender Inclusive Excellence. NIH RFA-OD-23-004, U24; 09/2024 - 09/2029 ($ 3.88 million). Terminated by NIH on 03/21/2025.

https://rss.com/podcasts/prathiwiputri/1239939/ Podcast on Water Rights for Dr. Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri, CO-Water, From Conflict to Co-production (European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme/ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions). Series https://rss.com/podcasts/prathiwiputri/ in preparation for the people’s water forum in Bali, Indonesia in 2024 organized by KRUHA https://kruha.org/ with its network the global justice movement, November 2023.

Webinar, Integrating Service and Leadership Contributions in Processes of Promotion from Associate to Full Professor (tentative title), in 4-part webinar series, Preparing Dossiers for Promotion from Associate to Full Professor, National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), Recorded May 27, 2022. Released August 3, 2022. (If institutional member, log into NCFDD to view the webinar.)

Challenging the Stereotypes, Interview with Mangala Subramaniam as Cover Story, Higher Ed Digest (International Edition), July 2021.

2021 Outstanding Woman Leading in Academic Operations Award from APLnextED, a women-founded and led academic-solution software company headquartered in Valparaiso, IN. See here. Visit aplnexted.com/2021Award to view recording of interview.

2021: Quoted in and Best Practices Tools referenced in article, “Faculty Members Are Suffering Burnout. These Strategies Could Help. Without them, academe could lose women and people of color” by Emma Petit. Chronicle of Higher Education, February 25, 2021 & in Burned Out and Overburdened: How to support the faculty. Report of Chronicle of Higher Education (available at Chronicle Store).

Invited Commentary and Analysis on project, Women Empowered in Science. Final year project by Yasmin Wafai, hosted by the Subramanian Lab, University of Bath, UK. December 2020. See here.

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RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Chardie Baird and Mangala Subramaniam (co-editors). Ivory Towers have Glass Ceilings: Institutional Responsibility in Promotion to Full Professor. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. Forthcoming 2025.

Subramaniam, Mangala. Repositioning a Faculty Affairs Unit in a Research-Intensive Institution. In Zeineldin, R. A Practitioner's Guide to Faculty Affairs. New York: Routledge, an Imprint of Taylor and Francis Books, Forthcoming 2025 (Case study).

Subramaniam, Mangala. 2024. Foreword in A Toolkit for Mid-Career Academics: Cultivating Career Advancement edited by Vicki L. Baker, Aimee LaPointe Terosky, and Laura Gail Lunsford. NY: Routledge

Subramaniam, Mangala and Michael Boeh. 2023. Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and Teaching & Learning Tool. VCU Office of the Provost-Faculty Affairs. [Resource Tool]

Subramaniam, Mangala. “Empathy in Research Process: Study of Women in Sex Work in India.” Current Sociology, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00113921221097154 June 3, 2022 (online first).

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PRESENTATIONS (2021-2024)

Invited

Invited Workshop, Strategies for Mitigating Unconscious Bias in Workspaces and Classrooms, as part of the "Radhika Rajan Women’s Leadership Lecture Series", IIT, Bombay, July 12, 2024. [“Radhika Rajan, alumna of the 1977 Physics batch at IITB, established an endowment in 2008 to sponsor a lecture series. The purpose is to bring in accomplished women achievers and leaders to campus, to foster discussions and, ideally, to spend some time with our students.”]

Invited Workshop, Navigating and Building Resilience as a Woman in Academia, Departments of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT, Bombay, July 13, 2024.

Session, Speaker in conversation, Preventing Faculty Burnout, Chronicle of Higher Education & NCFDD, April 24, 2024. [More than 1,000 registrants; 450 attended live session.]

Workshop: Mentoring and Networking for Faculty Success, Miami University of Ohio, April 3, 2024

Presentation at session: Social Movements: Forms and Emergence, Peoples Water Forum, Bali, Indonesia, March 2024 (Virtual public international forum).

Review Remarks for book, Social Norms, Gender and Collective Behaviour: Development Paradigms in India, 2021, Palgrave Macmillan at Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), India (virtual), February 1, 2022.

Campus Resources on Wellness. College of Health and Human Sciences, Senate’s Full Faculty Meeting, Purdue University, November 4, 2021.