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Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya is a multiple award-winning professor. For the last two decades, Dr. Bhattacharya has explored qualitative research through critical, de/colonial, creative, transnational, and contemplative perspectives.
She has received the 2022 inaugural Egon G. Guba Award for Outstanding Contributions to Qualitative Research from the American Educational Research Association's Qualitative Research Special Interest Group (AERA QR-SIG). She has received several distinguished researcher, scholar of color, and distinguished alumni awards from the American Educational Research Association, the University of Georgia, and the National Association of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Asian, Pacific Islander Knowledge Community.
She is the 2018 winner of AERA's Mid-Career Scholar of Color Award and the 2018 winner of AERA's Mentoring Award from Division G: Social Context of Education. Her co-authored text with Kent Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative, has won a 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from AERA (SIG 168) and a 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Research. She was recognized as one of the top 25 women in higher education by Diverse magazine for her significant contribution to social justice work and efforts to de/colonize qualitative research. Additionally, she was one of the six distinguished scholars invited by the Association of Studies in Higher Education as a featured speaker for their 2018 Inaugural Woke Methodology Series.
She has over 100 publications, including refereed articles, books, and book chapters, in addition to editorial responsibilities with a Routledge Book Series entitled Futures of Data Analysis in Qualitative Research.
Substantively, she has explored transnational issues of race, class, and gender in higher education. She has crafted Par/Des(i) ontoepistemologies with associated theoretical tenets to highlight the complex negotiations south Asian transnationals engage in diasporic locations.