Faculty Sponsors: Nancy Luke and Kaivan Munshi

Parendi traveled to Mumbai, India to interview three generations of Parsi Zoroastrian women. Using data from previous studies and from her own intensive interviews, she examined the factors that influenced women's decisions on marriage and upholding Parsi cultural values. Despite facing a supposedly dwindling population, the Parsi community still holds on to cultural policies that restrict the children of a Parsi woman and her non-Parsi spouse from joining the religious community (particularly in India).