Meet Sayali Amarapurkar
Office
385 McNeal Hall
Mailing Address
Mail Code 6140
290 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue
St Paul, MN 55108-6140
Phone
(612) 626-4556
Fax
(612) 625-4227
Sayali Amarapurkar
Research Associate
Job Description
Currently I am a Research Associate for Sharon Danes on the Family Business Research Project, which is a multi-state longitudinal research project with three waves of panel data on family-owned businesses. As a research associate I work with the principal investigator and graduate students on the project as well as research team members across states. I am a member of the non-resident teaching faculty and taught undergraduate course FSOS3102 ‘Family Systems and Diversity’ from Spring 2006 to Spring 2008.
Degrees
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Twin Cities
Ph.D. Family Social Science
UNIVERSITY OF Bombay, India
M.Sc. Human Development
UNIVERSITY OF Bombay, India
B.A. PSYCHOLOGY
scholarly Interests
Family dynamics of business-owning families; Racially ethnic diverse families, immigrant family dynamics.
Why I like working at the university/family social science
Family Social Science department provides a fertile environment for graduate students as well as faculty to interact and grow as individuals and professionals. It is especially very welcoming of international students (like me!) and a great place to learn and do research in family studies.