Judith Whitehead, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge, has always been fascinated with Asia. A seasoned researcher with 25 years’ experience in the field, Whitehead has done most of her fieldwork in India. Her areas of work include gender, colonialism and nationalism, the socio-spatial changes of urban regions linked to globalization, and land acquisition and Adivasi resettlement—all centred on themes of exclusion, inequality, and social justice. A graduate of the University of British Columbia, Whitehead went on to obtain a Ph.D. based on her research on Indian agriculture and the influence of gender and caste on labour-market decisions in rural Uttar Pradesh.