Soma Chaudhuri
Associate Professor
Berkey Hall, 433B
Biography
Soma Chaudhuri is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. She is the Co-Director of Center for Gender in Global Context, at Michigan State University, where she leads the global research portfolio. Her research lies at the intersection of gender, development, social movements and violence. Using qualitative datasets that draws from contemporary incidents of witch hunts, cases of domestic violence among others, her work examines how community and household
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PhD Vanderbilt University, 2008
Publications
Negotiating with Intersectional Consciousness: Women Leaders and the Everyday Politics of Advocacy in India. 2026. (with Alison Colby) Mobilization: An International Journal
WITCH HUNTS EVERYWHERE: A Feminist Re-Mapping of Misogyny and Contemporary Anti-Witch Violence. 2026. (with Jane Ward). Journal of Gender Studies
The Witch Studies Reader, 2025. (with Jane Ward) The Witch Studies Reader (dukeupress.edu).