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 International Centre Goa’s (ICG) Scholars-in-residence award, 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 co-founded Doing Sociology. She served as Associate Editor of Society, a Springer Nature journal from 2023 to 2025. Currently, she is a guest Academic Editor at PLOS Global Public Health. Patgiri is the Convenor of the Ad Hoc Group 01 – Food, Culture and Society of the Indian Sociological Society (ISS). She has three published books to her credit: Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives (Berghahn Books, 2025), Sociology of Gender in India: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2026), and Mobile Theatre of Assam: Public Culture, Counter-Public and Consumption (Routledge, 2027).