DR. PRATICHI MAJUMDAR

Assistant Professor

PhD in Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

pratichi.majumdar@thapar.edu

Pratichi Majumdar is a sociologist and qualitative researcher from New Delhi, India. She has completed Ph.D. from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University titled ‘Storytelling on the Internet: A Sociological Study of Popular English and Hindi Webseries’. Her areas of academic interest include Digital Sociology, New Media and Popular Culture, Sociology of Technology, Sociology of Development, and Gender and Human Rights. In the past few years, her specialization has been in using a combination of ethnographic and cyber-ethnographic research methods to sociologically study both physical and virtual communities.

Partichi has recently completed her Post-Doctoral research as part of the ESRC funded GendV Project: Urban Transformations and Gender Violence in India and South Africa, based at the University of Cambridge. She has previously taught Sociology at the Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi and the Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies to undergraduate and post-graduate students. She has also worked on various research projects around issues of gender, media, online communities, markets and identities, independently and with various organizations including the National Human Rights Commission, Kerala Institute of Local Administration, Human Rights Law Network among others. She has been invited to present her work at several national and international forums such as the International Sociological Association, Development Studies Association, University College London, British Sociological Association, British Association for South-Asian studies, All India Sociological Conference, Indian Social Institute and National Commission for Women, among others.

Besides academics, Pratichi is a trained Hindustani classical singer, an avid reader, an eager cinephile, and a keen traveler.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

• 2020. ‘Storytellers and Listeners: Role of Audience participation in Internet-based Stories’ in Communicator. pp. 27-35. Vol. LV (3 and 4) (July-December 2020

• 2019. ‘Unit-10: Communication Strategies for Empowerment’ in Media and Society, GSO S6 O4 (M), Sociology, Semester 6, Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University. pp. 114-126. Self Learning Material published by KKHSOU.

• 2019. ‘Internet based fandoms: Solidarity among Virtual Communities’ in Mass Media: Our Society, Our Research. pp. 7-12. Volume -8, Number- 85.

• 2017. 'When Religion, Nationalism and Market Meet: A Study of Patanjali', in Invitation to Sociology, edited by Bhattacharjee, N and Bhattacharyya, U., 100-106. New Delhi: Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. 

• 2016. ‘Chittaranjan Park Fish Market: A socially produced space’ in South -Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies (SAJMS) pp. 58-67.

Awards and Recognition

• Awarded the Shrimati Kunda Datar Gold Medal (2014) for being the best candidate in M.A. Examination in Sociology.

• Awarded National Scholarship in Sociology (2012-14) by the University of Delhi.

• Received the Krishnaraj Research Fellowship (2013-14), housed at the Centre for Development Studies, Delhi School of Economics and conducted a fifteen day research in Vridavana on ‘Negotiating Traditions: Maiyyas of Vrindavana’.

• Awarded the Neelabhatta Venkata Subbich Memorial Prize for highest marks in B.A. (Hons.) Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University.