She is currently a professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.
Her work focuses upon social reproduction and makes a feminist analysis of commodity chains.
Ramamurthy started her research at 16, when she volunteered for the NGO Mother and Child Healthcare and was sent to a poor village in Andhra Pradesh, India, to make a survey.
[1] Her PhD research was on canal irrigation in South India, then she wrote Managing irrigation: Analyzing and improving the performance of bureaucracies with Norman Uphoff and Roy Steiner in 1991.
[4] Ramamurthy's work focuses upon social reproduction and makes a feminist analysis of commodity chains.