Manisha Tripathy Pandey is a sociologist and Honorary Director of Centre for North East Studies
and Policy Research (CNESPR) at Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central university in Delhi. A Professor
and former Head at the Department of Sociology, JMI, she has over twenty-five years of
experience in research and teaching at undergraduate and post graduate levels. Having obtained a
doctorate degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, her research and
scholarship have examined the issues of development, globalization, violence, ethnicity, middle
class, diaspora, capitalism, markets, digitalization, urban spaces, and economic policy. During her
two decades long academic career at various positions, she has delivered more than 75 Invited
Lectures as Resource Person in national and international forums, which include York University,
Canada, USA, and Canberra, Australia and Seoul, Korea. She is a member of advisory committee
at UGC, Institutional Ethics Committee, JNU and is serving NCW, NTA, NIEPA, JNU, DU,
IGNOU, Amity University, Ambedkar University etc. as subject expert. She is the author of the
book, Globalization and The Indian Urban Middle Class, and has published several research
papers and chapters in reputed journals and edited volumes. She is a member of various national
and international professional bodies like International Sociological Association, Indian
Sociological Society and Canada Sociological Association. She has been visiting faculty at School
of Development Studies, TISS, Mumbai; Department of Development Communication and
Extension, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi; and Regional Training Institute, Government
of India, Nagpur. Her current research interests lie in the following areas: markets and economic
life, development studies, globalization studies, cultural studies, and social theory. She is currently
working on an ongoing ICSSR-funded major research project, “State, Market and Digitalization:
A Study of Digital Democracy and Exclusion in India”.