R.T.P. in Cultural Studies (equivalent to MPhil)- Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (an ICSSR research institute)
MA in Social Work- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
‘Folk’ art and artists
State and non-state socio-legal interventions on violence against women and girls
Gender and Development
Jayati Gupta Memorial Award for Best Term Paper, Research Training Program, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009
Papiya Ghosh Memorial Fellowship for Doctoral Scholars (2009- 2010)
NRTT Fellowship for pursuing Research Training Programme at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (2008-2009)
Co-produced a film on a Mithila/ Madhubani artist titled ‘Urmila Devi’ (dir. Kathryn Myers), which was nominated for the Best Documentary (Short) at the New York India Film Festival, 2020 https://regardingindia.com/portfolio/urmila-devi/
Co-editor, ‘Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imaginings’, with Rimple Mehta and Debaroti Chakraborty, Routledge (2022)
Co-author, Book chapter titled ‘Introduction’ in Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imaginings, edited by Rimple Mehta, Sandali Thakur, Debaroti Chakraborty, Routledge (2022)
Author, Book chapter titled ‘Women’s Art, Women’s Labour: Ethnographic Vignettes from Mithila’ in Women and the Worlds of Labour: Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Mary E. John & Meena Gopal, Orient Blackswan (2021)
Co-author, Book chapter titled ‘Re-searching and Re-positioning the Self and the Field: Investigating the Nation-State through Narratives from the Borders’ in ‘Methods, Moments and Ethnographic Spaces in Asia’, eds. Nayantara S. Appleton & Caroline Bennett, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, USA (2021)
Co-author, Report titled ‘Contextualizing Perceptions of Violence in Intimate Relationships among Adivasi Women of Yavatmal’, Tribal Research and Training Institute, Govt. of Maharashtra, December 2019 (sub-judice)
Co-author, Report titled ‘Breaking the Silence: Women’s Experiences of Sexual Harassment and Recommendations for the Revision and Implementation of ‘Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prohibition, Prevention and Redressal) Act, 2013’, Maharashtra State Commission for Women, February 2019
Co-author, Report titled ‘Navigating Pathways, Building Alliances: Exploring Relationship-Building Strategies for Feminist Social Work Interventions in Police Spaces’, Resource Centre for Interventions on Violence Against Women, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2020
Author, Report titled ‘Issues related to disruption in schooling of children whose mothers are forced to move out of their marital homes due to domestic violence’, Maharashtra Human Rights Commission, 2019
Co-author, Report titled ‘National Evaluation of Family Counseling Centre scheme’, Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India, 2018.
Author, Paper titled ‘Making Sense of Everyday Art and its Transformation: Perspectives from Cultural Studies’ in Seminar Proceedings of National Seminar titled Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Teaching in Social Sciences at St. Mira’s College, Pune, 2015
Author, Article titled ‘Imagining Traditions: Women’s Everyday Art Travels from Floor to Book’ in Himal Southasian,September 2014. http://himalmag.com/imagining-traditions/
Author, Book chapter titled ‘Imag(in)ing Traditions: The Contested Canvas of Mithila Paintings’, in Colonial and Contemporary Bihar and Jharkhand, edited by Biswamoy Pati and Lata Singh, Primus, 2013
Author, Interview on ‘Caste in West Bengal’ with Prof. Anjan Ghosh, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, published in Insight: Young Voices, Feb-March 2009
Author, ‘Dalit Mithila paintings’ in Insight: Young Voices, September-October 2007
Author, ‘Doom at Starting’ (on female foeticide) in DoBeegha Zameen, Tehelka, 7th May 2007
