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Kathleen O’Reilly is a Professor and Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University, where she has been a faculty member since 2006. She has more than 25 years of experience in designing and managing interdisciplinary research projects, with a primary focus on gender, water, and sanitation (WASH) interventions in rural and urban India. Previously, she served on the faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Kentucky. Her research examines the social and institutional mechanisms that influence gendered access to natural resources, infrastructure, and power within different governance contexts. She is particularly committed to understanding the complexity of social relations and the importance of intersectionality in spatial patterns of resource distribution. Dr. O'Reilly's work has been funded by several prestigious grants including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and projects with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Her publications include pioneering frameworks for evaluating sanitation projects and promoting gender equality in access to water and sanitation in the Global South.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.