In recent years, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in India, where she researched feminist agents of environmental change in Indian culture and literature. In her inquiry into how varieties of feminist agency have emerged in response to an ecological and social crisis in India, Dr. Comfort interacted with numerous scholars and representatives from Indian universities and non-profit organizations through the Centre for Women’s Development Studies in New Delhi. She currently co-directs the new IUP Program on Sustainability Studies, and serves on the board of the IUP Center for Northern Appalachian Studies.