Kathleen O'Reilly (University of Iowa)

Kathleen O'Reilly
Ph.D. candidate
University of Iowa
Department of Geography
316 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242 USA

Phone: 319-335-0151
fax:   319-335-2729
email: kathleen-oreilly@uiowa.edu

Description of work:

I am a geographer who conducts ethnographic research in the area of critical 
development studies.  I am interested in the purpose, operations, and 
processes of development discourse construction, and the power dynamics 
involved in these processes.  I am particularly interested in the effects of 
these processes on women's lives and spaces.  Currently I am studying NGOs as 
sites (within a wider development aid regime) where meanings of development 
and modernity are created and negotiated.

Research area: northern Rajasthan; Churu, Jhunjhunu, Hanumangarh districts

Research interests:  development, gender, critical social theory, 
human/environment interaction, water resources

Keywords: development, gender, Rajasthan, NGOs