डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

• PhD Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 2008

"Title of PhD thesis: Gendered Construction of Culture of Silence/Insignificant Articulation"

• MA Sociology, Centre for Studies in Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2000
• BA Sociology, Presidency College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 1998

• Assistant Professor at WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkta 2002-2009
• Junior Fellow at Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi January 2010-January 2011
• Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi 2011-2015
•  Associate Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi 2015-2018

• Sociology of Law
• Sociology of Kinship and Intimacy
• Feminist Pedagogy and Jurisprudence
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Disability Studies

Courses Taught at AUD:

• Faith, Religion and Society (MA Sociology)
• Gender and Society (SUS)
• Politics, Law and Society (SUS)
• Indian Society: Contradictions, Complexity and Paradoxes (SUS)
• Culture, Hierarchy and Difference (MA Sociology)
• Relationships and Affinities (MA Sociology)
• Law and Society (MA Sociology)
• Violence: Feminist Resistance and Critiques (MA Gender Studies)
• Theoretical Issues in Sociological Research (PhD Sociology)
• Women’s Movements (MPhil, Women and Gender Studies)
• Researching the Rural (MPhil Development Practice)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• (2026-) Member, Managing Committee, Indian Sociological Society
• (2026-), External Member, Board of Studies, University School of Liberal Arts, Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi
• (2025-), External Member, Board of Studies, Department of Sociology, Jamia Milia Islamia
• (2025) Good Researcher Award, AURPIS Annual Research Award, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
• (2024) Good Researcher Award, AURPIS Annual Research Award, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
• (2023) (Honorary) Associate Researcher at Centre de Sciences Humaines, part of a network of research units of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs
• (2023-2025), External Member, Internal Complaints Committee, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
• (2021) Office of the Political Affairs of the Embassy of the United States of America, New Delhi recognised one of the invited women leaders on the occasion of Women’s History Month and Annual Human Rights Report for India
• (2020) WISCOMP (Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace) SAAHAS awards recognising continuous engagements with curricula using an intersectional lens, and courageous efforts to bring structural shifts in the everyday functioning of higher education spaces through innovative pedagogy and counselling.
• (2012) Fellowship to participate in a two-week workshop titled ‘Theatre and Civil Society: Politics, Public Space and Performance’ organized by Brown International Advanced Research Institute, Brown University, Providence, USA
• (2011) Visiting Fellow at the School of Law, University of Keele under the PECANS fellowship on Law, Gender and Sexuality, 3--14, April 2011
• (2010) Fellowship to participate in the inaugural workshop titled ‘Global Law and Economic Policy’ organized by the Institute of Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
• (2007) Awardee of International Visitor Leadership Programme on Human Rights Awareness (US State Department of Education and Cultural Affairs) and part of a seven-member team from South Asia, only woman from India.
• (1998) Ranked first in Sociology, Bachelor of Arts, University of Calcutta, Kolkata.

Research Projects Awarded

• Project Director, ICSSR sponsored project ‘Women in Middle Tier Leadership in Higher Education Institutions in India', as part of Special Call for Punyashloka Devi Ahilayabai Holkar Women-led research. 2026-2027 
• Co-Investigator, DST-SHRI sponsored project, ‘Preservation, Promotion and Documentation of Folk Traditions: A Study of Ladakh’, 2025-2027 
• Seed Money Grant Funded Research of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, titled ‘Youth in Delhi: New Living Arrangements and Friendships’, 2025-26
• Co-investigator, ‘Feminist Taleem: Teaching Feminisms, Transforming Lives: Questions of Identity, Pedagogy and Violence in India and the UK’ (2017-2020). This project was funded by UGC-UKERI, Ambedkar University Delhi in collaboration with University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• Co-research partner from Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi with a project by WISCOMP Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace titled ‘HAMSA: Campus Equity Initiative’ exploring Gender Equity and Inclusion: Transformative Pathways in Higher Education (supported by Public Affairs Section of US Embassy, New Delhi) between 2018-2020
• Co-investigator for a project titled ‘A History of Gender Training in Delhi’ (November 2016-February 2017) under the Dyson Fellowship award, University of Melbourne
• Principal Investigator in ‘Remembering, Recasting and Re-negotiating: Hearing Her Perspectives on Institutional Histories’, funded by Indian Council of Social Science Research between 2011 to 2013, anchored at Centre for Women’s Development Studies and Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi

Refereed Journals

• (2026) ‘পথে এবার নামো সাথি: Walk-ing as Re-imagining the Classroom and the City’, Autumn Annual: Presidency Alumni Association, Volume LIV 2025-26, ISBN: 978-81-981260-6-1
• (2024) (with Aishwarya Rajeev) ‘Recognising Care Workers: A Feminist Legal Examination of ASHAs’, Review of Women’s Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, June 29 and July 6, 2024, Vol. LIX, Nos. 26 and 27, 46-51
• (2024) (with Shahaha Rafiq) ‘Intercaste/Community Marriages: Contestations and Negotiations in the Family’, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, May 30, 2024 (online first) https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X241253356
• (2023) ‘Editorial: Resilient Solidarities: Feminist Experiences on Trust and Community Building’ Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peace Building, Vol. 9, No. 1, Winter 2023, ISSN: 2582-7871, 
• (2023) ‘Intersectional Feminist Activism and Practices of Transformation: Perspectives from Indian Feminisms’, Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, Special Issue 44 (4) DOI: 10.1080/1554477X.2023.2247630, published online 11 September, 2023 
• (2023) Pyar, Promise, Dhoka: Feminist Questions to Law Commentary on Uday v State of Karnataka (2003) 4 SCC 46 in VRU/World Comparative Law Vol. 56 (2023), Issue 1 https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0506-7286-2023-1-104/, open access, ISSN: 0506-7286, ISSN online: 0506-7286
• (2021) “Kalpana Kannabiran in Conversation with Rukmini Sen” Explorations, e Journal of Indian Sociological Society, 5 (2): 277-291 ISSN: 2581-5741
• (2021; with K Menon) “Social Sciences Teaching and Research: Its Resilience and Relevance in Times of the NEP and Pandemic.” Journal of Educational Planning and Administration XXXV (1): 47-58, ISSN 0971-3859
• (2020) “Stay Home, Stay Safe: Interrogating Violence in the Domestic Sphere.” Economic and Political Weekly 55 (25).
• (2020) “Court Visits and Learning Pedagogies: Access to Sites of Justice.” Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, special issue on Transformative Pedagogies 6 (1).
• (2017) “Sexual harassment and the limits of free speech.” Economic and Political Weekly 52 (50).
• (2016) “Women with disabilities or disabled women: Cartographic Encounters with Legal Interstices.” Indian Anthropologist, Special issue on Everyday State and Politics in India 46 (2): 75-92. ISSN: 09700927
• (2015; with S. Mandal) “Introduction: Indian Feminisms, Law Reform and the Law Commission of India.” Journal of Indian Law and Society, Special Issue in Honour of Lotika Sarkar 6 (Monsoon): XI-XXXVII.
• (2013) “The Need for an Everyday Culture of Protest.” Economic and Political Weekly 48 (2).
• (2010) “Women’s subjectivities of Suffering and Legal rhetoric on Domestic Violence: Fissures in the two Discourses.” Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Special issue on Violence, Law and Feminist Politics 17 (3): 375-401, ISSN 0971-5215 
• (2010) “Law Commission Reports on Rape.” Economic and  Political Weekly, Review of Women’s Studies, 45 (44-45): 81-87
• (2010) “Pawar and the Power of the Narrative: Resistance and Re-emergence.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit 3 (1):  45-60
• (2009) “Teaching Sociology in a Law School: Predicaments, Negotiations and Innovations.” Journal of Indian Law & Society 1: 37-57.
• (2009) “Breaking Silences, Celebrating New Spaces: Mapping Elite Responses to the ‘Inclusive’ Judgment.” NUJS Law Review 2 (3): 481-503.
• (2009) “May Feel, Mustn’t Talk, Never Question: A Reading of Rashsundari and Binodini’s Autobiographies.” Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology 2: 69-90.
• (2008) “The Destruction of Caste Means a Notional Change’: Creation of Community and Identity in Ambedkar’s Writings.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit 1 (1): 57-65.

Edited/Co-edited Sections in Journals

• (2023) Resilient Solidarities: Feminist Experiences on Trust and Community Building, Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peace Building , Vol 9, No. 1, 2023, ISSN: 2582-7871
• (2021) Special Section on Sociology of Law Explorations-, e-Journal of Indian Sociological Society 5 (2). ISSN: 2581-5741
• (2017; with Gita Chaddha) “Power and Relationships in the Academia: Feminist Dilemmas beyond the List-Statement Binary.” Economic and Political Weekly 42 (50).
• (2015; with Saptarshi Mandal) “Indian Feminisms, Law Reform and Law Commission of India: Special issue in Honour of Lotika Sarkar.” Journal of Indian Law and Society 6 (Monsoon)

Edited Books

• (2020) (with R Govinda, F Mackay, K Menon) Doing Feminisms in the Academy: Identity, Institutional Pedagogy and Critical Classrooms in India and the UK, New Delhi: Zubaan.
• (2019) (with P Ray) Trust in Transactions. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan.

Refereed Chapter in Edited Books

• (2026) ডিভোর্স কলঙ্ক না গ্রহণযোগ্য: ভারতে সামাজিক-আইনি দৃশ্যপটে পরিবর্তন in বিয়ে: আজ কাল পরশু edited by গার্গী রায়চৌধুরী, সুমিতা বিথী, ISBN: 978-81-997933-4-7
• (2024) ‘From maintenance to Care-ing: the aged in times of changing familial geographies’ in Cultures of Ageing and Ageism in Bakshi, K and Chakravarti, P (edited), Routledge 
• (2023) ‘Gendering pedagogy, engendering practices: contemporary STEM education Landscape’ in India Higher Education Report 2022: Women in Higher Education, Varghese, N.V. and Sabharwal, Nidhi (edited), 299-312, Routledge ISBN 9781032458786
• (2023 with Gopinath, M Menon, K and Banerjea, N) ‘Voicing Democracy and reclaiming Citizenship: A Dialogic Conversation about Shaheen Bagh’ in Meenakshi Malhotra, et al (edited) The Gendered Body in South Asia: Negotiation, Resistance, Struggle 209-219, Routledge ISBN-13 9781032525709 
• (2023 with Menon K and Sachdeva, D) ‘Conversations on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Body, Violence and Touch’ in Meenakshi Malhotra, et al (edited) The Gendered Body in South Asia: Negotiation, Resistance, Struggle 59-72, Routledge ISBN-13 9781032525709 (2023) 
• (2023) ‘Home, Violence and the Pandemic: Sociological Discourses and Re-imagination in India.’ In Coronasphere: Narratives on COVID 19 from India and its Neighbours edited by C Sharma and R Banerjee, 121-133, Routledge. ISBN 9781032206646
• (2022) “Intimacy, Transgression, Ethics: Scripts and Silences in Gendered Academia.” In #MeToo and Beyond: Perspectives on a Global Movement, edited by C Alcade and P Villa. 146-162. Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN: 978-0813195599
• (2022) “From harassment to transgression: understanding changes in the legal landscape of sexual harassment in India.” In Intimacy and Injury in the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa, edited by N Falkof, S Roy and S Phadke, 223-239. Manchester: Manchester University Press ISBN: 978-1526157621
• (2022) “Mapping Women’s Activism in India: Resistances, Reforms and (Re)-Creation.” In Handbook of Gender in South Asia, edited by L Fernandez, second edition, 380-393. New York: Routledge ISBN 9780367479657
• (2020; with R Govinda, F MacKay, K Menon) “Introduction.” In Doing Feminisms in the Academy: Identity, Institutional Pedagogy and Critical Classrooms in India and the UK, edited by R Govinda, F MacKay, K Menon and R Sen, 1-15. New Delhi: Zubaan. 
• (2020; with K Menon) “From Perspective to Discipline: Mapping Forty years in Women's/Gender Studies in India.” In Doing Feminisms in the Academy: Identity, Institutional Pedagogy and Critical Classrooms in India and the UK, edited by R Govinda, F MacKay, K Menon and R Sen, 40-60. New Delhi: Zubaan.
• (2020) “Between Discomfort and Negotiation Reflections on Teaching Law Through (Feminist) Sociology.” In Doing Feminisms in the Academy: Identity, Institutional Pedagogy and Critical Classrooms in India and the UK, edited by R Govinda, F MacKay, K Menon and R Sen, 137-152. New Delhi: Zubaan.
• (2020) “Transformations in Kinship Relations in a Globalised India: Interrogating Marriage, Law and Intimacy.” In Challenges of Globalisation and Prospects for an Inter- Civilizational World Order, edited by I Rossi, 605-19. Springer Cham https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44058-9.
• (2019) “Is there a new language in hesitation?.” In (Re)claiming Lesbian Feminisms: Transnational Dialogues with Contemporary Heteropatriarchies, edited by K Browne, M Olasik, J Podmore and N Banerjea, 45-59. London: Zed Books.
• (2019; with P Ray) “Introduction.” In Trust in Transactions, edited by P Ray and R Sen, xvii-xxxvii. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. 
• (2019) “Domestic Labour and Domestic Work(er)Domesticity as a Site of Contested Trust and Discipline.” In Trust in Transactions, edited by P Ray and R Sen, 37-56. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan.
• (2018) “Re-imagining Kinship in disability specific domesticity: Legal understanding of care and companionship.” In Mapping Disability Studies in South Asia, edited by A Ghai, 401-412. New Delhi: Sage. 
• (2018) “Interrogating (non) Consent in sexual intimacies and infringements: Mapping the socio-legal landscape in India.” In Re-imagining Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives, edited by G Chaddha and M T Joseph, 197-219. London and New York: Routledge. 
• (2017) “Reading the social in autobiographies: A glimpse into everyday life and history.” In Knowing the social world: Methodologies in Sociological Research, edited by N Jayaram, 280-298. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan for Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. 
• (2016) “Right to care, home and family: Ethics of responsibility towards persons with disability.” In Interrogating Disability in India: Theory and Practice, edited by N Ghosh, 65–75. New Delhi: Springer. 
• (2015) “Remembering the Pratyahik (Daily): ‘De’-familiarizing Familial Social History through Memoirs.” In Pratyaha: Everyday Lifeworlds: Dilemmas, Contestations and Negotiations edited by P Ray and N Ghosh, 238–258. Delhi: Primus Publications. 
• (2014) “Resistance, Reforms and Re-creation: Mapping women’s activism in India.” In Handbook of Gender in South Asia, edited by L Fernandez, first edition, 333–346. New York: Routledge. 
• (2012) “Neutral’ Laws or ‘Moral’ Codes: Controlling and Recreating Sexualities/Intimacies.” In The Fear That Stalks: Gender Based Violence in Public Spaces, edited by L Prabhu and S Pilot, 143-172. New Delhi: Zubaan. 
• (2012) “Democracy and Gender: Contradiction between the Liberal and the Submissive Image of Women.” In Democracy and Democratization in the 21st Century: the South Asian Experience, edited by P P Basu, D Chatterjee, P Bhattacharya and S Chatterjee, 109-131, New Delhi: Har Anand Publications. 
• (2011) “UNCRPD and PWD: Gaps in Promises, Perspectives and Programs.” Indian Year Book of International Law and Policy (2010-2011), II, 258-282, Kolkata: Kamal Law House. 
• (2010) “Integrating Sociology in Law School Curriculum: Discontent, Dilemma, Direction.” In Sociology in India: Intellectual and Institutional Practices, edited by M Chaudhuri, 197-214, Jaipur: Rawat Publications. 
• (2008) “Atmakathar Nirabota: Bangali Mohilader Atmajiboni.” (Silences in Personal Narratives: Bengali Women’s Autobiographies). In Naribishwa, edited by P Chanda, 360-372, Kolkata: Gangchil.

Opinions / Online Publications

• (2025) ‘Why have we normalised hate speech against women in Politics?’ Express Opinion, The Indian Express, January 18, 2025
• (2024) ‘Women Doctors: At Work, At Risk’ Doing Sociology, August 20, 2024
• (2023)‘Conversation-with-chairperson-of-a-ugc-created-task-force-in-2013-to-ensure-safety-of-women-on- campuses’, December 8, 2023, Annual 16 Days Blogathon 2021, hosted by GenderED at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales and Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi in Delhi.
• (2023) “Besharam Rang Kaha Dekha, Love, Family and Watan Sociology” Doing Sociology, July 30
• (2023 with R, Aishwarya) “Recognition for gendered work: A post-pandemic hope and demand” May 1, Gender Ed
• (2022) “Welcome to the 16 days Blogathon 2022 on migration, mobilities and displacement”, Annual 16 Days Blogathon 2021, hosted by GenderED at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales and Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi in Delhi.
• (2021) “Welcome to the 16 days Blogathon 2021 on histories, myths and memories.” Annual 16 Days Blogathon 2021, hosted by genderED at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales and Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi
• (2021) “The Changing nature of urban homes and women's lives.” Hindustan Times, March 8
• (2020) “Life after COVID-19: A Society of Empaths or more Socially Distant.” News Click, March 30.
• (2020) “Returning Home and Violence within the Home: COVID 19 and multiple gendered violations.” Annual 16 Days Blogathon 2020, hosted by genderED at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales and Ambedkar University Delhi in Delhi.
• (2019; with K Menon) “Lessons from Hyderabad: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.” Genderpol, blog of the Gender Politics Research Group, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh - and friends.
• (2019; with F Mackay, L Chappell, C Hamilton and N Dyer, the co-curators) “Closing Reflections 16 days of blogs for 16 days of Activism 2019”. Annual 16 days blogathon 2019.
• (2018) “To Speak/To Complain: Reflections on Indian Feminist Politics in the moment of #MeToo and LoSHA.” Annual 16 Days Blogathon 2018.
• (2017) “To Promote contemporary feminist politics we need Sexual Harassment watchdog bodies.” The Wire¸October 3.
• (2016) “Still my-self? Or the loss of the self?.” Café Dissensus, August 14.
• (2015) “Humiliation as Political, Politicizing Humiliation: When Caste Bodies are Sexually Violated” Vikalp, August 29.
• (2014) “Performing Queer, Judging Queer.” Kindle Magazine, February 1.
• (2013) “The Road to Equality has never been Straight: Supreme Court’s Verdict on S 377.” Vikalp, December 26.
• (2013) “The supportive role of women’s organizations.” ‘More laws=More rights=More justice?’, special issue, edited by O Sircar and S Mandal, Infochange Agenda, 26: 50-52.
• (2013) ‘Documentary Evidence of Sexual Relationship: Is Companionship necessary when adults cohabit?’, Kafila, June 25.

Book Reviews

• (2023) Govardhan Wankhede, My Life: The Journey of a Dalit Sociologist. New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2020, 191 pages, ₹ 499. ISBN: 9789350026854 (Hardback).Contemporary Education Dialogue 2023 20:1, 149-156
• (2016) Ideas, Institutions, Processes: Essays in Memory of Satish Saberwal edited by N. Jayaram, South Asian History and Culture 7 (1): 97-201.
• (2015) The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India by Srimati Basu, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 50 (3): 461–463
• (2012) Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labour: Sex Work and Law in India by Prabha Kotiswaran, Biblio: A Review of Books, XVII (3 and 4)
• (2010) Understanding Children as Consumers edited by David Marshall Contemporary Education Dialogue, 9 (1): 105–109
• (2010) Sikhism and Women: History, Texts and Experience edited by Doris R. Jakobsh, The Book Review, XXXIV (9): pp. 795
• (2010) Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand, edited by Nandini Sundar, NUJS Law Review, , 3 (1): pp 123-128
• (2007) Role and image of law in India: The tribal experience by Vasudha Dhagamwar, Sociological Bulletin, 56 (1)–: pp 165-167 

SEMINAR/CONFERENCE (2020 onwards only)
Keynote/Plenary/Special Lecture/Valedictory

• (2026) ‘Women Reading, Reading Women: Reclaiming to Re-imagination of Spaces’, Valedictory lecture at Zikr, Fifth Annual Research Scholars Conference on Practices of Reading: Text, Context and Everyday Life, organised by Department of Sociology, Jamia Milia Islamia, April 16, 2026
• (2026) Panelist in Plenary session titled ‘Research, Writing, and Publishing as a Lifestyle’, organised by Jindal Global Law School Faculty Research Colloquium, March 14, 2026
• (2025) Panelist in Closing Plenary at the National Conference on Masculinities and Gender-based Violence, organised by CEQUIN at India Habitat Centre, March 19. 2025
• (2024) Chief Guest and panelist at research Report Launch of ‘The Home & The World of Work: Examining the Intersections of Gender, Labour, and Capital in Karnataka's Apparels Export Industry’ organised by Cividep India, at Bengaluru, October 3, 2024
• (2024) Orientation Lecture ‘Sociological Imagination: Contours and Contexts’, organised by Department of Sociology, Hindu College, University of Delhi, September 17, 2024
• (2024) Keynote speaker at ‘Teaching to Empower’ organised by Feminist Research Cluster, Jindal Global Law University, Sonipat, May, 11 2024
• (2023) ‘Studying Sociology, knowing the Social World: Possibilities for the Future’ Induction lecture at the Department of Sociology, University of Kerala, September 7, 2023
• (2022 Plenary Roundtable, hybrid mode) ‘Intersectional Feminist Activism and Pedagogy as Transformatory: Lessons from Indian/South Asian Feminisms’ at roundtable titled Contemporary Intersectional Feminist Activisms in Europe and Beyond at the European Conference on Politics and Gender, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 6-8 July.
• (2022, Special Lecture Series) ‘Research as Reflexivity: Confronting Self and Communities’ as part of (Online) Three Lecture Series on Fostering Undergraduate Research in University Spaces co-organised by Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Pune and Delhi, March 26
• (2022 Valedictory Lecture) ‘Violence, Domesticities and Care: Feminist Explorations’ at Gender Sensitisation Workshop on Violence against Women: Family, Community and State organised by UGC-HRDC and Jadavpur University School of Women's Studies, February 21

Conference Presentations

• (2026) ‘পথে এবার নামো সাথি: Walk-ing as Feminist Pedagogical Re-imagination’, as part of International Conference Feminist Futures, Fractured Presents: Cultures, Belongings, and the Institutional Everyday, organised by School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, January 19- 21, 2026
• (2025) ‘Gendered Experiences of Creating Living Arrangements in Delhi: Space, Sociality and Security’ as part of the 50th All Indian Sociological Conference on Mobilities and Inequalities: Shifting Contexts and Changing Paradigms organised by Indian Sociological Society at Easwari School of Liberal Arts, SRM University Andhra Pradesh, December 28-30, 2025
• (2025) ‘Home, Household, Accommodation: Socio-Legal Insights into Dwelling’ as part of the 50th All Indian Sociological Conference on Mobilities and Inequalities: Shifting Contexts and Changing Paradigms organised by Indian Sociological Society at Easwari School of Liberal Arts, SRM University Andhra Pradesh, December 28- 30, 2025
• (2025) ‘Kinship and Transformations in Law: An Assessment of Ten Years of Indian Jurisprudence’ as part of International Sociological Association conference, titled Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene, at 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, July 6 - 11, 2025
• (2025) ‘Trends in Gender Justice in the Last Decade in Indian Judiciary’, as part of International Sociological Association conference, titled Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene, at 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, July 6 - 11, 2025
• (2025) ‘Gendered Experiences of Creating Living Arrangements in Delhi: Space, Security and Solidarity’ as part of International Workshop on Rethinking Gender, Sexuality and Law: A Conversation between Feminist Scholars in Postcolonial South Asia and the UK, organised by Cardiff University, UK, June 17, 2025
• (2025) ‘Gender and Work from Multi-dimensional Lens’ as part of course on Women and Work: Making it Count 3.0, offered by Indian Social Studies Trust, May 10, 2025
• (2024) ‘Doing Feminisms: Texts, Classrooms and Contexts’ at a session on Feminist Ways of Knowing: Context Dependence and Embodiment as part of Mid Term Conference on Interrogating Sociology: Feminist (Re) Imagination organised by Department of Sociology, KC College Mumbai and Research Committee on Gender Studies, Indian Sociological Society, September 21-22, 2024
• (2023) Sociology of Home: Practices and Knowledge from India’ at RC 01 of Indian Sociological Society in the 48 th All India Sociological Association Conference The Crisis of the 21 st Century and Way Forward, Vellore, December 28-20, 2023
• (2023) ‘Home as a site of everyday intimacy: Transformations in domestic arrangements in urban India’ at RC 28 of Indian Sociological Society in the 48 th All India Sociological Association Conference The Crisis of the 21 st Century and Way Forward, Vellore, December 28-20, 2023
• (2023) ‘Founding (feminist) Moments: Imagi-Nation through Memoirs’ at the Indian Association for Women’s Studies organised XVII Conference Women’s Studies and Women’s Movements: Challenges and Resilience, at Government College for Women, Thiruvanathapuram, September 7-10, 2023
• (2023) ‘Care, Crisis and Citizens: Understanding the Pandemic Response through Feminist Perspectives’ at the Law and Care workshop, Warsaw, Poland June 26-28, 2023 (online)
• (2023)’Care as Practice and Pedagogy: Engaging with Sociological Sites and Spirit’ at the National Seminar on The Sociological Ethic and the Spirit of Pedagogy: Contemporary Reflections at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, March 16
• (2023) ‘The Space of Higher Education: Restructuring Gendered Institutions’ at the International Conference on Beyond Access and Parity: Complicating the Narrative of Gender Equality in Higher Education in India, organised by Department of Women and Gender Studies, Savitribhai Phule Pune University, Pune and Brunel University, London, February 23-25
• (2022) ‘Care-ing Collectives: Pandemic and the new Ethics of Living Together’ at the international (hybrid) conference on Social Justice in Pandemic Times organised by Asian Studies Association of Australia July 5-8
• (2021) ‘Lotika Sarkar and her Journeys in Legal Feminism: Teaching Law, Engendering Practices’, at the Annual Law and Society Association International (online) Conference on Crisis, Healing, Re-imagining at Chicago, USA 26-30 May
• (2021) “Women's Writing, Social History and Ways of Knowing: When Disciplines are Democratised" at the International Conference on Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality organised by International Sociological Association 23-28 February 2021 at Brazil, held online
• (2020) Understanding Motherhood: Transformations in the legislation of Maternity 'Benefit' in India" at the International Workshop on Gender and Reproduction, organised by MS Merian-R Tagore International Centre o0f Advance Studies, Metamorphosis of the Political held online November 13.
• (2020) Voicing Democracy and Reclaiming Citizenship: A panel discussion on questions of Gender, Citizenship, Democracy and Women’s role in Political Activism (part of a virtual panel conversation) at the 9 th International
• Feminist Journal of Politics conference themed Subversions and Solidarities through Feminist Collaborations and Crossings, March 7

Research Supervision
Doctor of Philosophy    

• Nancy Yadav, Being Remo: Analysing Bonda (PVTG) Identity in Ethnography and Fiction, School of Human Studies. (Degree Granted)
• Abhilasha Chattopadyay, Examining Marriage through Mediation Process; Study of Matrimonial Disputes in Delhi, PhD Sociology, School of Liberal Studies (Degree Granted)
•  Ratna Bharati Bhamidipati About Region And Making Of Migrant Subjectivities: A Study Of Dharmaj (Degree Granted)
• Shirin Hussain, Culture of campus-based Sexual Violence as Experienced by women students: A Study in Delhi Metropolis, PhD in Women and Gender Studies (Degree Granted)
• Shahana, Love, Marriage and Community: A Sociological Study of Creating Domesticities, PhD
• Sociology, School of Liberal Studies (Degree Granted)
• Priyadarshini ‘Child Sexual Abuse within 'Familial Settings': Experiences of 'Victims' and 'Survivors' (Degree Granted)
• Aarshi Jahan ‘Understanding Dhuku as a Domestic Arrangement: A Field Study in Gumla District, Jharkhan’ (ongoing)
• Baby Kumari ‘Public Secrets of Everyday Life: The Lifeworld of Sex Workers in Bihar’ (ongoing)
• Zaira Rahim ‘Everyday Experiences of Muslim Single Women in Delhi: A Sociological Study’ (ongoing)
• Shivani Choudhary Understanding Experiences of Transgender Students: A Sociological Study in Higher Education Institutions in Delhi (ongoing)
• Gunjari Bhattacharya Making Friends Building Relations: A Sociological Study on Friendship in Two Indian Cities (ongoing)

Master of Philosophy (degrees granted)
MPhil in Women and Gender Studies

• Rashmi Singh, Women and the Vocation of Politics: The Gendered Nature of Electoral Competition, (Degree granted 2014).
• Abha Tadvalkar, Invisible Lives in Visible Histories: Women Negotiating the transition from Private to Public (2016).
• Shraddha Chatterjee, Sexual Subaltern/ity and Queer Activism in India: A Search at the Interstice (2016).
• Kusum Lata, “Lower Caste” Women’s Question: An Exploration of Terminologies and Themes(2018).
• Shambhavi Sharma, Queer Politics and the Law in India: Reading Judgments and Narratives(2019).
• Suparna Majumdar, Marriages are not Made in Heaven: Conceptualising the Aftermath of Marital Breakdown in Delhi, 2021
• Sumit Kumar, Forced Marriages in Bihar: A Feminist Enquiry, (2021)

MPhil in Development Practice

• Bhavya Chitranshi, Transforming the Political – Politicizing Transformation: The Journey of Eka Nari Sanghathan in Emaliguda, Odisha (2015).
• Ashutosh Kumar, From Beneficiary to Relationality? A Description of ‘Collective’ Lives among Sopo villagers of Gumla, Jharkhand (2016).
• Shubhangi Lakhchaura, Recast(e)ing Dining Practices in Rural: A Transformative Action Initiating Inter-dining Practices in Daihar, Hazaribagh District, Jharkhand (2018).
• Anubha Sinha, Rethinking Violence, Understanding Domesticity: A journey with Sangwari, in Dokal, Dhamtari, Chattisgarh (2018).
• Monica Antal Life of Hadiya: (Re) Thinking Nasha and Violence: Moving away from State and Urban centric Developmental Response (2018).
• Raphael Tok Once Upon a Different Life: Migration of Santal tribal girls for domestic work in Indian metropoles (2019).
• Arshi Jahan, Re-Imagining a Dialogue on Marriage and Practices like Dhuku among women in Gumla, Jharkhand (2020).