Mayurakshi Chaudhuri

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor of Sociology and Digital Humanities, FLAME University, Pune, India (June 2022 – present)

Area Chair, Sociology (August 2023 - Present) 

Head, Department of Social Sciences (August 2024 - present)

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Founding Faculty of Digital Humanities Platform & Programs, 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, Area Chair of Sociology and the Head of the Department of Social Sciences in the FLAME School of Liberal Education at FLAME University, Pune. Dr. Chaudhuri is a Board Member (2025-2027) of the research-network WG10 Digital Sociology of the International Sociological Association,  and one of the global affiliates at the Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. She is the Founding Faculty of Digital Humanities programs (M.Sc. and Ph.D) at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, and has served as a member of the Board of Studies in Digital Humanities for Savitribai Phule Pune University, India, from 2022-2024. 

Dr. Chaudhuri's research areas include Technology and Society, Migrations and Mobilities, Gender Studies, Historical Sociology, Digital Humanities, and Qualitative Research Methods. 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 is an Associate Editor with Frontiers in Sociology  (Section: Migration and Society). 

Dr. 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 current funded project is titled "Producing Ontologies of Relationships from Indian Nuptial documents longitudinally (PORINOY): A Case Study of Bengali/Bangla Wedding Invitations", funded by the JPN Center of Excellence in Humanities at IIT Indore. 

Dr. Chaudhuri has completed multiple online teaching projects as part of the Government of India's Ministry of Eduction projects of NPTEL- SWAYAM: (1) Gender & Society (2018) (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqMl6r3x6BUSeO8NbR6HaR6ZrkCEBbaY3), (2) Images, Imaginations and Cultures (2023), and (3) Technology and Society (2025) (https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/nou25_hs36/preview). 

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.