Dr. Mayurakshi Chaudhuri is Associate Professor of Sociology and Digital Humanities, FLAME School of Liberal Education at FLAME University, Pune. Prof. Chaudhuri's research areas include Migrations and Mobilities, Gender Studies, Historical Sociology, Technology and Society, Digital Humanities, and Qualitative Research Methods. Prof. Chaudhuri is the recipient of international and national fellowships including a Indo-Swiss Grant jointly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), a GESIS-EUROLAB Fellowship from the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS, Germany), a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, and the Government of India National Merit Scholarship. Her research has been published significantly with top tier journals such as Sex Roles (Springer), Transfers (Berghahn Books, Oxford), and Applied Mobilities (Taylor and Francis). She has completed two online teaching projects as part of the Government of India's Ministry of Human Resource Development's Direct To Home initiative (DTH Channel 16: NPTEL: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Management): (1) Gender & Society (2018-2019), and (2) Images, Imaginations and Cultures (2023). Her recent research projects focus on emerging areas of technology and mobility, digital healthcare, and images in digital cultures. An interdisciplinary scholar with academic training in Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, and Geography, she enjoys advising undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral projects that are located at the intersections of society, culture, and technology.
Prof. Chaudhuri is the founding faculty of Digital Humanities programs (M.Sc. and Ph.D) at IIT Jodhpur, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Studies in Digital Humanities for Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.
For more details, please visit: https://sites.google.com/flame.edu.in/mayurakshi-chaudhuri/home.
Photographs and other images as objects (of imagination) influencing cultures
Visual Cultures, Visual discourse; object-subject debate; space and visibility
Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, Barthes
Power, Knowledge and the ‘Gaze’ determining photographs and their power
Orientalism; class construction through photography
History of picture postcards, postcards as data sources
Photography as a technology of the colonial state and as a transformation instrument of body politic
Maps and transportation representing physical, social and imaginative worlds
Race, Gender, Caste imagined in photographs and other images
The future of Images; Images and the digital revolution - the road ahead