Roli Varma

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Carl Hatch Endowed Professor
Regents’ Lecturer

University of New Mexico

School of Public Administration MSC053100
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States
Telephone: (505) 277-7756
Fax: (505) 277-2529

 Email: varma@unm.edu

Books (n=2)

  1. Roli Varma (2006 cloth, 2007 paperback), Harbingers of Global Change: India's Techno-Immigrants in the United States. Maryland: Lexington Books, 1-212.
     
  2. Roli Varma (2006 cloth), Managing Industrial Research Effectively. Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press, 1-202.

Edited Symposiums (n=4)

  1. Roli Varma, John Falk and Lynn Dierking (2023), Asian Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), American Behavioral Scientist, 67(9), 1063-1154.
     
  2. Roli Varma and Lisa Frehill (2010), Special Issue on the Science and Technical Workforce, American Behavioral Scientist, 53(7), 943-1078.
     
  3. Roli Varma (2003), Special Issue on Women and Minorities in Information Technology, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 22(3), 1-48.
     
  4. Roli Varma (2003), Proceedings of the National Science Foundation's ITWF & ITR/EWF Principal Investigator Conference. Albuquerque, 1-239.

Journal Articles (n=63)

  1. Roli Varma (2026). Navigating Stereotypes: Indian Immigrant Technocrats in the USA. World, 7(6), 90, 1-17.
    DOI: 10.3390/world7060090

  2. Roli Varma (2026). Why Stay, Why Return: Mobility Choices of Indian Scientists & Engineers. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 35(1), 3-26.
    DOI: 10.1177/01171968261416791

  3. Roli Varma, Meghna Sabharwal, Anna Schaeffer and Safiyah Zaidi (2025). Spanning Cultural Boundaries: Study of U.S. Indian Return Migrants in the Technology Sector. World, 6(3), 126, 1-17.
    DOI: 10.3390/world6030126 

  4. Roli Varma (2023). "Demystifying Qualitative Data Analysis: Unveiling Strategies and Insights from NSF Proposals." Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Study, 17(3), 208-220.

  5. Roli Varma (2023). "Commemorating 50 Years of Publication of Small Is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher: Adding Women to "Small = Beautiful." Perspectives in Global Development and Technology, 22(1-2), 149-170.                                                DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341656

  6. Roli Varma (2022). "Being Asian Women Scientists and Engineers in the United States: Intersection of Ethnicity and Gender." American Behavioral Scientist.
    DOI: 10.1177/00027642221078510

  7. Roli Varma, John Falk and Lynn Dierking (2022). “Challenges and Opportunities: Asian Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.” American Behavioral Scientist.
    DOI: 10.13039/100000001

  8. Meghna Sabharwal, Roli Varma and Zeeshan Noor (2021). “Ethnic Organizations and Adaptation: A Case Study of Indian Immigrant Engineers in the US.” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 20(4), 317-335.
    DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341598

  9. Roli Varma (2021). “Dissecting Culture at Work: Conversation with Indian Immigrant Scientists & Engineers in the US Technology Sector.” Technology in Society, 66, 1-8.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101654

  10. Roli Varma (2020). “To Be or Not to Be on H-1B: Engineers from India in the United States.” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 19(2), 281-302.
    DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341557

  11. Meghna Sabharwal and Roli Varma (2018). “International Collaboration: Experiences of Indian Academics after Returning from the United States.” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 17(4), 593-617.

  12. Roli Varma (2018). "U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce: Underrepresentation of Women and Minorities" American Behavioral Scientist, 62(3), 1-6.
    DOI: 10.1177/0002764218768847

  13. Meghna Sabharwal and Roli Varma (2017). "The Grass Is Greener on the other Side: Return Migration of Indian Engineers and Scientists" Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 37(1), 34-44.
    DOI: 10.1177/0270467617738463

  14. Meghna Sabharwal and Roli Varma (2017). “Are Asian Indian Scientists and Engineers in Academia Faced with a Glass Ceiling” Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 12(1), 50-62.

  15. Meghna Sabharwal and Roli Varma (2017). "Convergence or Divergence: Science Practice among Immigrant Faculty in India and the United States" Science, Technology & Human Values. 42(5), 775-794.
    DOI: 10.1177/0162243916689711
                                                                               
  16. Meghna Sabharwal and Roli Varma (2016). "Return Migration to India: Decision-Making among Engineers and Scientists" International Migration, 54(4), 177-190.
    DOI: 10.1111/imig.12265
                                                                                                                                  
  17. Meghna Sabharwal and Roli Varma (2015). "Transnational Research Collaborations: Indian Faculty in the USA Connecting with Their Peers in India" East Asian Journal of Science, Technology and Society. 9(3),  275-293.
    DOI: 10.1215/18752160-3141241

  18. Meghna Sabharwal and Roli Varma (2015). “Scientific Diaspora: Stay Plans of Indian Faculty in the United States” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 14(1), 368-387.
    DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341351

  19. Roli Varma and Deepak Kapur (2015). “Decoding Femininity in Computer Science in India” Communications of ACM, 58(5), 56-62.
    DOI: 10.1145/2663339

  20. Roli Varma (2014). “USA Institutional Review Board (IRB): Questioning Professional Autonomy in Qualitative Inquiry” IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 33(4), 63-70.
    DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2014.2363983

  21. Roli Varma and Deepak Kapur (2013). "Comparative Analysis of Brain Drain, Brain Circulation and Brain Retain: A Case Study of Indian Institutes of Technology" Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 15(4), 315-330.
    DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2013.810376

  22. Glenda G. Kodaseet and Roli Varma (2012). "In Pursuit of a Computing Degree: Cultural Implications for American Indians" Journal of American Indian Education, 51(1), 67-88.                                                                                                                  

  23. Roli Varma (2011), "Transnational Migration and Entrepreneurialism: Indians in the U.S. Technology Sector" Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 10(2), 270-287.
    DOI: 10.11163/156914911X582422

  24. Roli Varma (2011), "Indian Women and Mathematics for Computer Science" IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 30(1), 39-46.
    DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2011.940294
     
  25. Roli Varma (2010), "Why So Few Women Enroll in Computing? Gender and Ethnic Differences in Students' Perception" Computers Science Education, 20(4), 301-316.
    DOI: 10.1080/08993408.2010.527697
     
  26. Roli Varma (2010), "Computing Self-Efficacy among Women in India" Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 16(3), 257-274.
    DOI: 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.v16.i3.40
     
  27. Roli Varma (2010),"India-born in the U.S. Science and Engineering Workforce" American Behavioral Scientist, 53(7), 1064-1078.
    DOI: 10.1177/0002764209356239 
     
  28. Roli Varma and Lisa Frehill, (2010), "Special Issue on Science and Technical Workforce" American Behavioral Scientist, 53(7), 943-948.
    DOI: 10.1177/0002764209356229 
     
  29. Roli Varma and Deepak Kapur (2010), "Access, Satisfaction, and Future: Undergraduate Studies at the Indian Institutes of Technology" Higher Education, 59(6), 703-717.
    DOI 10.1007/s10734-009-9275-0 
     
  30. Roli Varma (2009), "Exposure, Training and Environment: Women's Participation in Computing Education in the United States and India" Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 15(3), 205-222.
    DOI: 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.v15.i3.20
     
  31. Roli Varma (2009), "Attracting Native Americans to Computing" Communications of the ACM, 52(8), 137-140.
    DOI: 10.1145/1536616.1536650 
     
  32. Roli Varma (2009), "Gender Differences in Factors Influencing Students towards Computing" Computer Science Education, 19(1), 37-49.
    DOI: 10.1080/08993400902819006 
     
  33. Roli Varma (2009), "Bridging the Digital Divide: Computing in Tribal Colleges and Universities" Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 15(1), 39-53.
    DOI: 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.v15.i1.30
     
  34. Roli Varma and Daya R. Varma (2009), "The Making of Indian Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the US" Economic and Political Weekly, 44(3), 64-69.
     
  35. Roli Varma and Heiko Hahn (2008), "Gender and the Pipeline Metaphor in Computing" European Journal of Engineering Education, 33(1), 3-11.
    DOI: 10.1080/03043790701745936 
     
  36. Roli Varma (2007), "Women in Computing: The Role of Geek Culture" Science as Culture, 16(4), 359-376.
    DOI: 10.1080/09505430701706707
     
  37. Roli Varma (2007), "Changing Borders and Realities: Emigration of Indian Scientists and Engineers to the United States" Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 6(4), 1-18.
    DOI: 10.1163/156914907X253224 
     
  38. Roli Varma and Marcella LaFever (2007), "Importance of Gender Homophily in Computer Science Classroom" IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 26(2), 43-47.                                                                                                                                DOI: 10.1109/MTAS.2007.371281
     
  39. Roli Varma (2007), "Decoding the Female Exodus from Computing Education" Information, Communication and Society, 10(2), 181-193.
    DOI: 10.1080/13691180701307396
     
  40. Roli Varma and Heiko Hahn (2007). "Gender Differences in Students' Experiences in Computing Education in the United States" International Journal of Engineering Education, 23(2), 361-367.
     
  41. Roli Varma (2006), "Making Computer Science Minority Friendly" Communications of the ACM, 49(2), 129-134.
    DOI: 10.1145/1113034.1113041
     
  42. Shawn Flanigan and Roli Varma (2006), "Promoting Community Gardening to Low Income Urban Participants in the Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC) in New Mexico" Community, Work & Family, 9(1), 69-74.
    DOI: 10.1080/13668800500420806
     
  43. Bruce Perlman and Roli Varma (2005), "Barely Managing: Attitudes of Information Technology Professionals on Management Technique" Social Science Journal, 42(4), 583-594.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.soscij.2005.09.007
     
  44. Roli Varma and Daya R. Varma (2005), "The Bhopal Disaster of 1984" Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 25(1), 37-45.
    DOI: 10.1177/0270467604273822
     
  45. Roli Varma and Everett M. Rogers (2004), "Indian Cyber Workers in US" Economic and Political Weekly, 39(52), 5645-5652.
     
  46. Roli Varma (2004), "Asian Americans: Achievements Mask Challenges" Asian Journal of Social Science, 32(2), 290-307.
     
  47. Roli Varma (2003), "Editorial" IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 22(3), 6-7.
    DOI: 10.1109/MTAS.2003.1237464

  48. Roli Varma (2003), "E. F. Schumacher: Changing the Paradigm of Bigger Is Better" Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 23(2), 114-124.
    DOI: 10.1177/02700467603251313
     
  49. Roli Varma (2002), "High-Tech Coolies: Asian Immigrants in US Science and Engineering Workforce" Science as Culture, 11(3), 337-361.
    DOI: 10.1080/0950543022000005078
     
  50. Roli Varma (2002), "Women in Information Technology: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students in a Minority-Serving Institution" Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 22(4), 274-282.
    DOI: 10.1177/0270467602022004003
     
  51. Bruce Perlman and Roli Varma (2002), "Improving Ethical Engineering Practice" IEEE Technology and Society, 21(1), 40-47.
    DOI: 10.1109/44.993600
     
  52. Roli Varma (2002), "Technological Fix: Sex Determination in India" Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 22(1), 21-30.
    DOI: 10.1177/027046702022001003
     
  53. Roli Varma (2002), "Are We Eating Our Seed Corn?: Basic Research in the U.S. Corporate Sector" Prometheus, 20(1), 1-14.
    DOI: 10.1080/08109020110110277
     
  54. Roli Varma (2001) "People's Science Movements and Science Wars?" Economic and Political Weekly, 36(52), 4796-4802.
     
  55. Roli Varma (2001), "Permanent Tenure and Academic Freedom in Engineering" Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 21(3), 193-201.
    DOI: 10.1177/027046760102100304
     
  56. Roli Varma (2000), "Changing Research Cultures in U.S. Industry" Science, Technology & Human Values, 25(4), 395-416.
    DOI: 10.1177/016224390002500401 
     
  57. Roli Varma (2000), "Technology and Ethics for Engineering Students" Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 20(3), 217-224.
    DOI: 10.1177/027046760002000309 
     
  58. Roli Varma (2000), "Research and Development (R&D) Management and Technical Expertise: Creating an Effective Managerial Environment for Maximizing Productivity" Management Development Forum, 3(1), 51-72.
     
  59. Roli Varma (1999), "Project Selection Models or Professional Autonomy?" Prometheus, 17(3), 269-282.
    DOI: 10.1080/08109029908632131
     
  60. Roli Varma (1999), "Professional Autonomy vs. Industrial Control?" Science as Culture, 8(1), 23-45.
    DOI: 10.1080/09505439909526529
     
  61. Roli Varma (1997), "US Industrial Scientists: Alienation and Elitism" Economic and Political Weekly, 32(29), 1795-1799.
     
  62. Roli Varma (1995), "Restructuring Corporate R&D: From an Autonomous to a Linkage Model" Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 7(2), 231-247.
    DOI: 10.1080/09537329508524206

  63. Roli Varma and Richard Worthington (1995), "Immiseration of Industrial Scientists in Corporate Laboratories in the United States" Minerva, 33(4), 325-338.             DOI: 10.1007/BF01096516

Book Chapters (n=14)

  1. Roli Varma (2024). “Transnational Innovators: Indian Immigrants in Shaping Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Tech Sector” in Elmi, M., Cukier, W., Chavoushi, Z.C. & Mo, G.Y. (eds.). Immigrants Entrepreneurship: Palgrave Studies in Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigenization in Business (pp. 413435). United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-69642-8_17

  2. Roli Varma (2023), “Intervention Organizations to Increase Women’s Engagement with Information Technology: A Case Study of NCWIT” in Jeria Quesenberry and Eileen Trauth (eds.). Handbook of Gender & Technology (pp. 311-327). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Press.
    DOI: 10.4337/9781800377929.00025

  3. Roli Varma (2022). "New Coolies: Indian Technology Workers Entering U.S. on H-1B Visa" in Leticia Saucedo and Robyn Rodrigues (eds.). Race, Gender and Contemporary International Labor Migration: 21st Century Coolies (pp. 89-108). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Press.
    DOI: 10.4337/9781789902006.00014

  4. Roli Varma (2020). “Women in Computing Education: A Western or Global Problem? Lessons from India” in Carol Frieze and Jeria Quesenberry (eds.). Cracking the Digital Ceiling: Women in Computing around the World (pp. 299-310). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108609081.018

  5. Meghna Sabharwal and Roli Varma (2020). “Transnationalism and Return Migration of Scientists and Engineers from the United States to India” in Ajaya K Sahoo and Bandana Purkayastha (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Indian Transnationalism (pp. 54-66). New York: Routledge.
    DOI: 10.4324/9781315109381

  6. Roli Varma (2017), “Paradox of Empowerment and Marginalization: Indian Women in Computer Science” in Helen Peterson (ed.). Gender in Transnational Knowledge Companies (pp. 31-52). New York: Springer.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43307-3_3

  7. Meghna Sabharwal and Roli Varma (2016). "Why One Returns? Why One Stays" Indian Immigrant Engineers and Scientists in the United States" in Elizabeth J. Stephens (ed.). International Migration: Politics, Policies and Practices (pp. 135-154). New York: Nova Science Publishers. 
                                                                                                                           
  8. Roli Varma (2015), “Making a Meaningful Choice: Women’s Selection of Computer Science in India” in Willie Pearson, Lisa M. Frehill and Connie L. McNeely (eds.) Advancing Women in Science: International Perspectives (pp. 269-272). New York: Springer.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08629-3_8

  9. Roli Varma (2008), "Challenges to Diversity: A Case Study of Indian Scientists and Engineers" In Mannar I. Srinivasan (ed.) Communicating in a World of Diversity (pp.174-187). Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press. (Reprinted with permission from the American Society for Engineering Education).

  10. Roli Varma, Amit Prasad and Deepak Kapur (2006, 2008), "Confronting 'Socialization' Barrier: Cross-Ethnic Differences in Undergraduate Women's Preference for IT Education" In Joanne McGrath Cohoon and William Aspray (eds.) Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation (pp. 301-323). Cambridge: MIT Press.

  11.  Roli Varma and Vanessa Galindo-Sanchez (2006), "Native American Women in Computing" In Eileen M. Trauth (ed.) Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology (pp. 914-919). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

  12.  Roli Varma and Marcella LaFever (2006), "Motivating Women to Computer Science Education" In Eileen M. Trauth (ed.) Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology (pp. 900-906). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

  13.  Juris Hartmanis, Roli Varma and Richard C. Walters (2006), "The Globalization of IT Research" In William Aspray, Frank Mayadas and Moshe Y. Vardi (eds.) Globalization and Offshoring of Software (pp. 155-181). New York: Association for Computing Machinery.

  14.  Roli Varma (2003), "Asians in the U.S. Public Service: Diversity, Achievements, and Glass Ceiling" In Sumathi Reddy (ed.) Workforce Diversity: Concepts and Cases (pp. 26-42). Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press. (Reprinted with permission from the United Nations).

Refereed Articles in Proceedings (15)

  1. Roli Varma (2020),“Indian Perspective on Women in Computing" Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference & Exposition.

  2. Roli Varma (2020).“Asian Indian Engineers on H-1B Visas in the United States” Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference & Exposition.

  3. Roli Varma (2009), "Why I Chose Computer Science? Women in India" Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Paper 413.
     
  4. Roli Varma (2006), "Challenges to Diversity: A Case Study of Asian Indian Scientists and Engineers" Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.
     
  5. Roli Varma (2005), "Out of Mix: Native Americans in Information Technology" Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.
     
  6. Roli Varma (2004), "The Tenure System and Engineering Institutions" Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.
     
  7. Roli Varma and Marcella LaFever (2004), "Communication Climate and Satisfaction in the Computer Science Classroom" Proceedings of Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network National Conference.
     
  8. Roli Varma (2003), "Retention of Minority Undergraduates in Information Technology" Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.
     
  9. Roli Varma (2002), "Undergraduate Minorities in IT-Related Fields: Findings from a Case Study in a Minority-Serving Institution" Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.
     
  10. Roli Varma (2001), "Asians in the U.S. Public Service: Diversity, Achievements, and Glass Ceiling" Proceedings of United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Managing Diversity in the Civil Service, Division for Public Economics and Public Administration.
     
  11. Bruce Perlman and  Roli Varma (2001), "Bridging the Cultural Chasm: Improving Collaboration and Cooperation between the Computer and Social Sciences" International Symposium on Technology and Society Proceedings (pp. 19-27), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Catalog No. PR01209.
     
  12. Roli Varma (2001), "Barriers to Overcome: Women in Information Technology" Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.
     
  13. Bruce Perlman and Roli Varma (2001), "Teaching Engineering Ethics" Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition.
     
  14. Roli Varma (1999), "Women and People's Science Movements in India" Women and Technology: Historical, Societal, and Professional Perspectives Proceedings (pp. 378-382), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Catalog No. 99CH37005.
     
  15. Roli Varma (1994), "On Proletarianization of Scientists?" Bernard Schiele (ed.) When Science Becomes Culture (Proceedings II), University of Ottawa Press, Montreal, Canada.

Book Review

  1. Roli Varma (2018), IEEE Annals of History of Computing. 40(1), 88–91.        Aspray, William. (2016). Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing: A Historical and Social Study. Switzerland: Springer.

Citations

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