Joya Misra

Misra earned her bachelor's degree in Religion from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1988, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from Emory University in 1994.{{Cite journal |last=Misra |first=Joya |date=February 2012 |title=Introduction: Well, How Did I Get Here? |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891243211429683 |journal=Gender & Society |language=en |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=5–13 |doi=10.1177/0891243211429683 |s2cid=220374096 |issn=0891-2432|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |title=Joya Misra Elected 115th ASA President; Jennifer A. Reich Voted Vice President |url=https://www.newswise.com/articles/joya-misra-elected-115th-asa-president-jennifer-a-reich-voted-vice-president |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.newswise.com |language=en}} She is a second-generation immigrant who grew up in the South.

Professor Misra joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia in 1994, where she was affiliated with Women’s Studies. In 1999, she joined the Department of Sociology and Center for Public Policy & Administration at the University of Massachusetts, with affiliations with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and Labor Studies program. In 2009, she was promoted to Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the university. She has served as interim Sociology Department Chair and the Graduate Program Director,{{Cite web |title=Joya Misra {{!}} University of Massachusetts Amherst - Academia.edu |url=https://umass.academia.edu/JoyaMisra/CurriculumVitae |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=umass.academia.edu}} as well as Director of the Institute for Social Science Research{{Cite web |title=Joya Misra appointed Director of ISSR {{!}} Institute for Social Science Research {{!}} UMass Amherst |url=https://www.umass.edu/issr/news/joya-misra-appointed-director-issr |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.umass.edu}} and Director of ADVANCE Programming.{{Cite web |title=Who We Are {{!}} ADVANCE Program |url=https://www.umass.edu/advance/who-we-are |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.umass.edu}}

Misra is the Past President of the American Sociological Association. Prior to her election in 2022, she served several leadership roles for the ASA, including Vice President, Council Member, Chair of the ASA Distinguished Book Committee, Chair of the Sex and Gender Section, and Chair of the Race, Gender, and Class Section. From 2011 to 2015, Misra was the editor of Gender & Society.{{Cite web |title=Joya Misra {{!}} UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab |url=https://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/users/joya-misra |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=en.unesco.org |language=en}}

The intersection of gender and race in the labor market

In her 2003 article co-authored with Irene Browne, Misra identifies how the intersection of race and gender shape the US labor market, including wage inequality; discrimination and stereotyping; and immigration and domestic labor, establishing intersectionality as a foundational perspective to understand labor market inequalities.{{Cite journal |last1=Browne |first1=Irene |last2=Misra |first2=Joya |date=August 2003 |title=The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.100016 |journal=Annual Review of Sociology |language=en |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=487–513 |doi=10.1146/annurev.soc.29.010202.100016 |issn=0360-0572|url-access=subscription }}

Misra’s scholarship focuses on inequalities by gender and gender identity, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, citizenship, parenthood status and educational level.{{Cite web |title=ARC Network |url=https://www.equityinstem.org/virtual-visiting-scholars/misra |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=www.equityinstem.org}} Much of her work considers how policies may both reinforce and lessen inequalities. Her research on work-family policies uses a cross-national perspective, with a focus on ways that social policies can entrench or remediate existing inequalities. Her collaborative work further considers how culture intersects with structure, to explain where and when policies are most effective.{{Cite journal |last1=Budig |first1=Michelle |last2=Misra |first2=Joya |last3=Boeckmann |first3=Irene |date=2012 |title=The Motherhood Wage Penalty in Cross-National Perspective: The Importance of Work-Family Policies and Cultural Attitudes? |url=https://academic.oup.com/sp/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/sp/jxs006 |access-date=2023-02-27 |journal=Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=163–193 |doi=10.1093/sp/jxs006|hdl=10419/95390 |hdl-access=free }}

With Kyla Walters, she published a book that focuses on how retail work is organized in the 21st century.{{Cite book |last1=Misra |first1=Joya |url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520384651/walking-mannequins |title=Walking Mannequins: How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work |last2=Walters |first2=Kyla |date=2022 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-38465-1 |language=en}} This work explores how race, gender, and class condition workers' experiences with managers, co-workers, and customers. It also considers more deeply how race and gender shape the aesthetic labor that retail clothing workers must do.

Joya Misra’s numerous awards include the Eastern Sociological Society Public Sociology Award (2022),{{Cite web |title=Public Sociology Award |url=https://www.essnet.org/public-sociology-award |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=Ess Net |language=en}} the Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair (2022-2024),{{Cite web |title=UMass Amherst Social Inequality Researcher Receives Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair : UMass Amherst |url=https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-social-inequality-researcher-receives-roy-j-zuckerberg-endowed |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=www.umass.edu |language=en}} the University of Massachusetts Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship (2020–21),{{Cite web |title=Misra Awarded Conti Faculty Fellowship Award {{!}} School of Public Policy (SPP) {{!}} UMass Amherst |url=https://www.umass.edu/spp/news/misra-awarded-conti-faculty-fellowship-award |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=www.umass.edu |language=en}} and the University of Massachusetts Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow (2016–17).{{Cite web |title=Chancellor's Leadership Fellowship {{!}} Office of Faculty Development |url=https://www.umass.edu/faculty-development/programs-resources/leadership-development/chancellors-leadership-fellowship |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=Office of Faculty Development : UMass Amherst |language=en}} Misra's research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation.{{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 1022183 - Collaborative Research: Work-Family Policy and Poverty |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1022183 |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.nsf.gov |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 1824090 - ADVANCE IT - Collaboration and Equity: The Resources, Relationships, and Recognition (R3) Model for Advancing Women and Underrepresented Faculty in Science and Engineering |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1824090&HistoricalAwards=false |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.nsf.gov |language=en}} In 2009 she won the inaugural World Bank/Luxembourg Income Study Gender Research Award.{{Cite web |date=2009-03-11 |title=Budig and Misra win World Bank/Luxembourg Income Study Gender Research Award |url=https://www.umass.edu/archivenewsoffice/article/budig-and-misra-win-world-bankluxembourg-income-study-gender-research-award |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=News & Media Relations |language=en}}

Misra is a celebrated teacher and mentor, receiving the Sociologists for Women in Society Mentoring Award in 2010.{{Cite web |title=SWS Mentoring Award |url=https://socwomen.org/awards/mentoringaward/ |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=Sociologists for Women in Society |language=en-US}} At the University of Massachusetts, she was awarded the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award (2004–05){{Cite web |title=SBS Outstanding Teaching Award {{!}} College of Social & Behavioral Sciences |url=https://www.umass.edu/sbs/sbs-awards/sbs-outstanding-teaching-award-recipients |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.umass.edu}} and the Sociology Mentoring Award (2009–10, 2014–15).{{Cite web |title=Mentoring {{!}} Sociology {{!}} UMass Amherst |url=https://www.umass.edu/sociology/graduate/mentoring |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=www.umass.edu}}

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