Visiting Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Anju Mary Paul is Visiting Professor of Social Research and Public Policy. She holds a Bachelor's in Business Administration (First Class Honors) from the National University of Singapore, a Master's in Journalism from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology and Public Policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Paul is an international migration scholar. Paul's research interests include emergent migration patterns, particularly to, from, and within Asia, gender and labor, globalization, domestic work, care policy, and science policy. She is the author of Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market (Cambridge University Press 2017) and Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia (Cambridge University Press 2021). She is also the editor of Local Encounters in a Global City(Ethos Books 2017). Her research has been published in top journals in sociology and migration studies, including the American Journal of Sociology; Social Forces; Migration Studies; the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Gender, Place & Culture; Global Networks; and Ethnic and Racial Studies. She is currently leading a transnational project, the Global Care Policy Index, which quantitatively scores countries on the degree of social and labor policy protections they provide unpaid family caregivers and paid domestic workers.
Prior to joining NYU, Paul served as an inaugural faculty member at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. She has won numerous awards for her research, including the 2018 Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the 2018 Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the ASA. In 2020, Paul was also awarded the Yale-NUS College Distinguished Teaching Excellence Recognition Award.