Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Tuhina Ganguly

Tuhina Ganguly

Assistant Professor

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


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Mental Illnesses and Health, Anthropology of the Mind, Anthropology of the Body, Contemporary Religiosities, Cosmopolitics

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  • Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
  • M.Phil in Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India
  • M.A. in Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India
  • B.Com(H), Sri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, India

  • 2017-Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR

  • 2024 Helen Crovetto Award for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements with Ties to South Asia (Awarded by the journal, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, for the article, “Christian Yoga, New Thought, and ‘the First Hindu American’”)
  • 2019 Wenner-Gren Workshop Grant (with Subhashim Goswami; for organising a workshop on ‘Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary’)
  • 2013 Travel Grant, India Studies Research Grant, New Zealand India Research Institute, New Zealand

Peer reviewed journal articles

  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2026. “Expressed Emotion and Kin Affects in Mental Health Rehabilitation”. South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 48(2): 391-408.
  • Ganguly, Tuhina and Subhashim Goswami. 2024. “The Cosmopolitics of Inhabiting Multiple Worlds”. Novos Debates: Fórum de Antropologia, 10(2): 1-17.
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2024. “Cultivating Care: Notes from a Mental Health Organisation in India”. Medicine Anthropology Theory 11(2): 1–9.
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2024. “Christian Yoga, New Thought, and ‘the First Hindu American’: The Life and Thought of Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar”. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 27 (3): 57-82.  
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2024. “The Wonder of Darshan: Going Beyond the Local and the National”. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religeuses 53(1), 93-112.
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2022. “The Mother’s Children: The Making of Memory and Intimacy at the Gurus’ Samadhi”. Contributions to Indian Sociology 56 (2): 156-185.
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2018. “Connecting their Selves: The Discourse of Karma, Calling, and Surrendering among Western Spiritual Practitioners in India”. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 86 (4): 1014-1045.
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2016. “The Politics of Location: Being a Native Anthropologist Among Western Interlocutors in India”. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 13 (2): 210-231.
  • Bandyopadhyay, Ranjan & Tuhina Ganguly. 2015. “Situating the Tourist Gaze: From Appropriation to Negotiation”. Current Issues in Tourism 21(6): 599-615.
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2013. “Conceptualizing Work-Employment in India: A Study of Chakri in Colonial Bengal (19th-20th centuries)”. österreichischen zeitschrift für geschichtswissenschaften/Austrian Journal of Historical Studies (OZG), 24 (1): 172-97

BOOK REVIEWS

Ganguly, Tuhina. 2024. “Book Review: Tulasi Srinivas ed. 2023. Wonder in South Asia: History, Aesthetics, Ethics”. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 58 (3): 427-430.

  • Ferreira, Vinicius Kaue, Tuhina Ganguly and Subhashim Goswami. “The Anthropologist from the South: The Frontier Beyond Radical Alterity”. In Southern Attitudes in the Social Sciences: Pathways toward a Renewed Professional Ethos eds. Claudio Pinheiro and Peggy Levitt (forthcoming)
  • Ganguly, Tuhina and Mike Grimshaw. 2018. “Exotic Tourist, Ethnic Hosts: A Critical Approach to Tourism and Ethnodevelopment”. In Ismar Borges de Lima and Victor T. King eds. Ethnic Tourism and Ethnodevelopment: Inclusion, Empowerment and Self-determination, 215-231. Routledge: London and New York
  • Malik, Aditya, Chandan Bose and Tuhina Ganguly. 2017. “Varkaris”. Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism. Ed. Tracy Chapman. New York: Oxford University Press. 24 May 2017. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195399318/obo-9780195399318-0182.xml

BLOGS/OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Online news article - "The loneliness of living with a serious mental illness". 360info. 15 July 2024. https://360info.org/the-loneliness-of-living-with-a-serious-mental-illness/