Dr. Piya Pangsapa is a sociologist who was on the faculty at the Global Gender Studies department at the University at Buffalo SUNY and was head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies before joining the School of Global Studies. Dr. Piya has published widely on migrant workers, civil society and NGO activism, and labor rights in Southeast Asia, and is the author of Textures of Struggle. She has worked as a freelance copywriter, writer, and editor (the World Wildlife Fund and Michelin Guide) and was lead author and editor for a 2021 WWF Thailand Project Report which highlighted low-carbon sustainable consumption and production in the food system, and which she subsequently incorporated into her teaching. Trained in Latin dance, she has competed and taught Latin dance while also applying its foundations to her writing and her teaching, especially in regard to discipline, focus, time management, mindset, creativity, and inspiration.
Gender and development studies; women and work; comparative social and economic development; qualitative and ethnographic research; migration; social movements; gender and sustainability; metaverse technology in education; authentic learning; the flipped classroom
TU 101 Thailand, ASEAN, and the World
TU 108 Self Development and Management
GS 284 Designing for Science
GS 281 Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
GS 200 Questioning Minds: Applied Critical Thinking
SGS Globalization and Gender & Development Modules for the Summer Pre-Program
SPD 208 Gender & Social Diversity (guest lecturer for the SPD Program @TU)
SPD 307 Theories of Social Policy & Development (session on development theory, SPD Program @TU)
Graduate:
GS 871 Prospectus Development
GS 742 Seminar on Sustainability Studies Section on Prospectus Development
GS 761 Contemporary Sustainability Issues (Section on Gender and Sustainability)
GS 621 Grounded Immersion (Module 3 on Academic Writing)
MAS Program Research Writing Seminar Summer Program
- Pangsapa, P. (2023). ‘Social distancing? "No problem!": Explaining Thailand’s successful containment of Covid-19’ in Reconfiguring Community and Society: The Consequences of Pandemic Distancing Around the World, University of Toronto Press (forthcoming, 1/23.).
- 2023. Pangsapa, P. Wong, P., Wong, G., Techanamurthy, U., Wan Syukriah, N., Shen, D. 2023. ‘Enhancing Humanities Learning with Metaverse Technology: A Study on Student Engagement and Performance,’ Educational Technology & Society, under review.
- 2022. Nah, F., Shen, D., Wong, P., Wang, R., Techanamurthy, U., Tong, E., Geng, H., Pangsapa, P., and Chew, S. “Enhancing Literacy Education with Narrative Richness in the Metaverse,” Proceedings of the 21st Annual Pre-ICIS Workshop on HCI Research in MIS, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11 December 2022.
- Pangsapa, P. (2022). Vaccine policy failure: Explaining Thailand’s unsuccessful containment of Covid-19 in the third wave. Asian Journal of Law and Society (24 August), 1–17. doi:10.1017/als.2022.17.
- Pangsapa, P. (2022). Capacity of Thai fortune tellers to engage in mental health counseling, Journal of Mental Health of Thailand, 30(3):184-98.
- Pangsapa, P. (2022). Extra-Territorial Law of Deaths and Injuries in Semi-Colonial Siam. Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam by Trais Pearson, Cornell University Press (2020), Asian Journal of Law and Society (9): 168-175, doi:10.1017/als.2021.39.
- 2021. Editor and contributing writer. Journey of Sustainable Consumption and Production – a Localized Approach Establishing low-carbon sustainable consumption and production in the food system, Thailand, Project Report. WWF-Thailand, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU), International Climate Initiative (IKI). ISBN 978-616-93813-0-3.
- 2011. ‘When battlefields become marketplaces: migrant workers and the role of civil society and NGO activism in Thailand,’ International Migration. DOI: 10.111/j.1468-2435.2009.00559.x
- 2007. ‘Enslavement in Thailand: Southeast Asia as the Microcosm of 21st Century Slavery’, Global Social Policy Forum 7(1): 10-14, Global Social Policy 2007, Sage, April 2007 (Invited). ISSN: 1468-0181. eISSN: 1741-2803. 2008.
- 2007. Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand (Ithaca and London: ILR/Cornell University Press). PB: ISBN 978-0-8014-7376-0. HB ISBN: 978-0-8014-4591-0.
- amazon.com/author/piyapangsapa
- researchgate.net/profile/piya_pangsapa
- 2002 Cheryl Allyn Miller Award, Honourable Mention for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Women and Work, Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), American Sociological Association
- 2022 Metaverse Learning in Education for Sustainability, SGS Research and Publication Fund
- 2003 Women’s Studies Departmental Merit Award for Service, Department of Women’s Studies, University at Buffalo
| PH.D. IN SOCIOLOGY | HARPUR COLLEGE OF OF ARTS & SCIENCES, BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | 2001 |
| M.A IN SOCIOLOGY | GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS | 1994 |
| B.A IN SOCIOLOGY | COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | 1992 |