Anindita Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in the School of General Education at BRAC University in Bangladesh. Prior to BRAC, Dr. Chatterjee have held Academic appointments at Asian University for women (AUW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh, American University of Sharjah (UAE) and at Symbiosis International University in Pune (India). She has held research appointments after she completed her Ph.D. (2019) from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) at Max Weber Stiftung IBO (New Delhi), and Dr. Chatterjee has been a Postdoctoral Research Consultant with Prof. Sarah Lamb (Brandeis University) on her Andrew Carnegie Fellowship project. Dr. Chatterjee completed her M.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Anthropology. By training, she is an anthropologist, but she engages with other interdisciplinary areas. Her research projects have been funded by several prestigious organizations like the Indian Council of Social Science and Research (ICSSR), South Asia Research Fellowship (UT, Austin), Taraknath Das Foundation (managed by Columbia University, New York), National Science Foundation and Fulbright Fellowship among others.
Dr. Chatterjee’s doctoral project examined two distinct developments in contemporary South Asia: the feminization of domestic labor and India’s rapid urbanization arising from its adoption of neoliberal economic reforms. Her dissertation, “Everyday Talk and Gendered Labour,” currently a book in progress re-named as Domestic Attachments: Narratives on Gendered Labor and Exclusion, is a comparative study on how labor relations operate trans-regionally in Kolkata, Delhi, and Noida consisting of bi-lingual migrant workers. Besides studying employer-worker relations, it also focuses on worker relations in their own squatter settlements to explore the interactions amongst diverse female migrant workers from a similar economic structure, yet possessing different social standings. Dr. Chatterjee was selected for the book workshop sponsored by AIIS (American Institute of Indian Studies) at Wisconsin, Madison in October 2022.
Dr. Chatterjee has presented her research findings at multiple international and national conferences over the past decade, and she also has a record of producing collaborative research with an international network of scholars. In 2020, she published an article as the first author in a special issue of IJSL on Language, Inequality and Global Care-Work and this article is co-authored with Dr. Anne Schluter (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University). She has a book chapter in Home, belonging and memory in migration: Leaving and Living, edited by Sadan Jha & Pushpendra, 121-136. London & New Delhi: Routledge (2022). She has a book chapter in Politics and Society in India and the Global South with the Max Weber Stiftung Collaboration, (forthcoming) and will be published by Sage (2023).