Dr. Roksana Badruddoja (pronoun: hir) is a feminine/masculine Woman of Color; an intergenerational family trauma liberation therapist; a scholar of decolonial and Indigenous studies, a tenured full professor of sociology, women and gender studies, a critical race and ethnicity studies and the Chair of the Department of Sociology & Criminology at Manhattan College; a queer mother to four fierce energy beings; and an interfaith and cross-cultural Akashic, divination, and urban shamanic practitioner.
Dr. Badruddoja thinks deeply, every day, about how vulnerability and woundedness are imagined and how trauma impacts the ways in which we show up in the world. Hir focuses on inherited family trauma as a platform to explore how people interact in their relationships. Dr. Badruddoja identifies patterns of hidden inherited family dynamics--generational traumas--in family lines, and hir work is oriented towards balancing family systems to create relationship interactions that are authentically supportive and nourishing.
Dr. Badruddoja’s primary research and teaching areas include Assemblage Theory, Intersectional Feminism, and Decolonial Feminism; South Asian American Studies; Critical Race Theory; Violence Against BIWOC; Nationalism, Citizenship, and Im-migration; Reproductive Trauma; Ethnography and Autohistoria-teoría; Inherited Family Trauma and Family Constellation; and, the Akashic Records, Shamanism, Divination, and Indigenous Healing Epistemologies.
Dr. Badruddoja is the author of National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity (Brill/Haymarket, 2022), the editor of “New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Demeter, 2016), and a contributor of Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian Daughters in Obedience and Rebellion (Aunt Lute, 2016).