Rita Brara Mukhopadhyay

Rita Brara has been a Visiting Professor at Ashoka University since 2020 and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Growth. She is the the Editor of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology since 2016. For the longest time she taught at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, India. Her monograph titled ‘Shifting Landscapes: A Study of Village Commons in India’ was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Her articles continue to be published in leading journals. Her research interests and writings focus on environmental/agrarian studies, climate change, kinship and popular culture and, most recently, COVID-19.