Faculty

Suchismita Chattopadhyay is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies. She received her PhD in Anthropology and Sociology from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Suchismita’s research focuses on the notions of self-fashioning and aspirations through an ethnography of the grooming and self-improvement industry in Delhi. Her research interests include body politics, political sociology, neoliberal subjectivities, gender and youth studies. She has previously been associated with Shiv Nadar University, Krea University and Oxford Policy Management.

• Graduation In: POLITICAL SCIENCE (HONS)
• Graduation From: LADY SHRI RAM COLLEGE, DELHI UNIVERSITY
• Graduation Year: 2009

• Post Graduation In: POLITICAL STUDIES
• Post Graduation From: CENTRE FOR POLITICAL STUDIES, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
• Post Graduation Year: 2011

• Doctorate In: ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
• Doctorate From: THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, GENEVA
• Doctorate Year: 2022

Journal Articles

• 2025. “A for Appearance: Aesthetic Labour and the Work of Image Consultants in a Globalised Delhi”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 48 (5), 1133-1150.
• 2023. “Youth Must Keep Upvaluing Themselves”: Of Personality Development and Modern Selves in Contemporary Delhi. In: Dar, A., Kannan, D. (eds) Childhood and Youth in India. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan.
• 2021. “The Pandemic of Productivity: The Work of Home and the Work from Home”, Anthropology in Action, 28(1), 47-51.
• 2019. “Ruminating the Field and the Pedagogy of Writing Notes”, Café Dissensus, Issue 50, Writing in Academia, edited by A Dsgupta and M Lohokare.
• 2016. “Fashioning Powerful Women: The Queen and the Commoner of Indian Politics” in Fashion: Tyranny and Revelation. Brill.

• The Gradute Institute Excellence Scholarship, September 2016- July 2021