Mayurakshi Chaudhuri
Mayurakshi Chaudhuri, PhD (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of Sociology and Digital Humanities
Area Chair, Sociology | FLAME School of Liberal Education
Affiliate Faculty of Design, FLAME School of Design, Art & Performance
FLAME University
Lavale, Pune 412115, India
Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar | Twitter: @mayurakshi_ch
EDUCATION
PhD, Global and Sociolocultural Studies, Florida International University, USA.
M.A. Comparative Sociology, Florida International University, USA.
M.A. Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, U.K.
B.Sc. Geography, University of Calcutta (Loreto College), India.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor of Sociology and Digital Humanities, FLAME University, Pune, India (June 2022 – present) & Area Chair of Sociology (August 2023 – present)
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Founding Faculty of Digital Humanities, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India (June 2016 – May 2022)
Researcher, Centre for Care of Torture Victims, India (2015 – 2016; 2006 - 2007)
Lecturer, Florida International University, Miami, FL. United States (2013 – 2015)
Doctoral Fellow, University Graduate School, Florida International University, Miami, FL. United States (2011 – 2013)
Graduate Teaching Associate, Florida International University, Miami, FL. United States (2007 – 2011)
Junior Urban Planner, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Barnsley, United Kingdom (2005 – 2006)
Dr. Mayurakshi Chaudhuri is Associate Professor of Sociology and Digital Humanities, FLAME School of Liberal Education at FLAME University, Pune. She is the Founding Faculty of Digital Humanities programs (M.Sc. and Ph.D) at IIT Jodhpur, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Studies in Digital Humanities for Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.
Chaudhuri's research areas include Migrations and Mobilities, Gender Studies, Historical Sociology, Technology and Society, Digital Humanities, and Qualitative Research Methods.
Chaudhuri is the recipient of international and national fellowships including a Indo-Swiss Grant jointly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), a GESIS-EUROLAB Fellowship from the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS, Germany), a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, and the Government of India National Merit Scholarship. Her research has been published significantly with top tier journals such as Sex Roles (Springer), Transfers (Berghahn Books, Oxford), and Applied Mobilities (Taylor and Francis).
She has completed two online teaching projects as part of the Government of India's Ministry of Human Resource Development's Direct To Home initiative (DTH Channel 16: NPTEL: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Management): (1) Gender & Society (2018), and (2) Images, Imaginations and Cultures (2023).
Her recent research projects focus on emerging areas of technology and mobility, digital healthcare, and images in digital cultures. An interdisciplinary scholar with academic training in Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, and Geography, she enjoys advising undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral projects that are located at the intersections of society, culture, and technology.