About Me

Rituparna Patgiri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. She has been a recipient of the Krishna Raj Fellowship, the Zubaan-Sasakawa Peace Foundation Grant for Young Researchers from the Northeast, the Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati Start-Up Grant and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Grant. Her research interests lie in exploring questions of culture, food, media, gender and pedagogy. 

Patgiri is passionate about making academic knowledge accessible to the public and is one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology – an academic blog dedicated to promoting sociological consciousness among young students. She is also serving as the Associate Editor of the South Asian Region in Society – a journal published by Springer Nature that explores the latest scholarship on the central questions of contemporary society. 

Patgiri is the Convenor of the Ad Hoc Group 05 – Food, Culture and Society of the Indian Sociological Society (ISS). She has published widely in both academic and non-academic platforms and is currently working on three book projects – two co-edited volumes and one monograph.