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Margaret Abraham is Professor of Sociology at Hofstra University, New York and served as chair from 2000 through 2003. She also served as Director of Women’s Studies. Her areas of interest are ethnicity, migration, gender, domestic violence and the South Asian Diaspora. Rutgers University Press published her book, Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the United States in Summer 2000. This book won the American Sociological Association: Section on Asian and Asian America Outstanding Book Award in 2002. Dr. Abraham has also presented papers at numerous conferences and published in various journals including Gender & Society, Violence Against Women, and the Indian Journal of Gender Studies. She was the recipient of a Rockefeller fellowship. She has served on the boards of Sakhi for South Asian Women and APICHA. She is also an advisory board member and consultant on national projects related to issues on violence against women. Dr. Abraham has been involved in research and activism in the field of domestic violence in the South Asian immigrant community for more than a decade. She has been honored for her work by Sakhi for South Asian Women, Indus Women Leaders, the Indian American Kerala Cultural and Civic Center, and the Office of the Executive, Nassau County, State of New York. Her work has been profiled and quoted in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, India Abroad, Malayalam Pathram, India Today, Indiathink.com, and Rip Rap: The Academic Book Program.