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Dr. Manoranjan Ghosh

Dr. Debapriya Ganguly

Assistant Professor

Sociology

Email icon debapriyaganguly@gmail.com

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Bio

Dr. Debapriya Ganguly is a Sociologist with interests in Urban Studies, Social Theory, Popular Culture, Sociology of Education, and Digital Populism.

Debapriya has been an Assistant Professor at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, SIU, since January 2026. Prior to that, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Savitribai Phule Pune University for more than 6 years. She also contributed as a Visiting Faculty for the B.A. Liberal Arts program at the Interdisciplinary School of Science, SPPU, between 2019 and 2022. Debapriya completed her Doctoral degree at the University of Hyderabad, followed by her role as a research consultant with the Citizens' Rights Collective and ActionAid Karnataka.

She has presented papers in various national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops, and her work has been published as journal articles and book chapters in Sage, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Springer, Bloomsbury, among others. Her current research is on three specific areas: climate governance and urban rivers, pedagogical changes in higher education, and horror and sexual violence.

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Publications

  1. Ganguly, D., and Chaudhari, V. (2026). Vulnerabilities of Private Healthcare Workers during COVID19 Pandemic. South Asia Research, 45(3).
  2. Ganguly, D. and Reudenbach, A. (2025). Spa Tourism and Urban Transformation: The (re)imagination of Montecatini Terme. Urbanities- Journal of Urban Ethnography, 15 (2).
  3. Ganguly, D. (2025). The right to sustainable urban life? Contextualising the Chipko March in Pune. Urban Now, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
  4. Ganguly, D. (2024). ‘Internet Activism and the Populist Agenda’. In Joseph Chacko Chennattuserry, Madhumati Deshpande and Paul Hong (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century, Springer (Singapore),
  5. Ganguly, D. (2023). ‘Death’ of a teacher? Pandemic, pedagogy and virtual classrooms. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 23(5).
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Education

  • 2019 – PhD awarded by the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, for the thesis, Development, Local State and Labouring Poor: A Study of Urban Processes in Visakhapatnam.
  • 2013 – M.Phil. awarded by the Centre for Regional Studies, University of Hyderabad, for the dissertation, 'Free Nagas' and the Paradox of Development.
  • 2011 – M. A. in Sociology from the University of Hyderabad.
  • 2009 - B. A. (with Honours) in Sociology from St. Xavier's College (Autonomous under the University of Calcutta).
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Research Interests

  • Urban Studies
  • Social Theory
  • Sociology of Education
  • Popular Culture
  • Digital Populism