{"id":1381,"date":"2020-10-21T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=1381"},"modified":"2020-10-21T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:48:14","slug":"sonja-thomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/sonja-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonja Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sonia.Thomas.Photo-min-scaled-e1603301253788.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1382 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sonia.Thomas.Photo-min-scaled-e1603301253788-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sonia.Thomas.Photo-min-scaled-e1603301253788-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sonia.Thomas.Photo-min-scaled-e1603301253788-1024x876.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sonia.Thomas.Photo-min-scaled-e1603301253788-768x657.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sonia.Thomas.Photo-min-scaled-e1603301253788-70x60.jpg 70w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sonia.Thomas.Photo-min-scaled-e1603301253788.jpg 1525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonja Thomas<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of Women\u2019s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Colby College.\u00a0 Her research examines the intersections of caste, race, gender, class, and religion in postcolonial India and community-based movements for \u201cminority rights.\u201d \u00a0She is the author of <em>Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India <\/em>(UWA Press, 2018).\u00a0 She has also written articles on education and religious minorities in India, the South Asian American diaspora and comparative racializations, and Black vernacular traditions in the US and globally.\u00a0 Sonja is associate editor for South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.\u00a0 She is currently researching Catholic missionary priests from India serving in rural America.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lectures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Indriappam and Vindaloo: Caste and Food Culture among Kerala \u201cChristians\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sonja Thomas is an Associate Professor of Women\u2019s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Colby College.\u00a0 Her research examines the intersections of caste, race, gender, class, and religion in postcolonial India and community-based movements for \u201cminority rights.\u201d \u00a0She is the author of Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1381","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1381\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}