Dr. Amrita Nandy

Norms – The Dopperlgannger of Public Policy

Education

• Ph.D, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• MSc. Women’s Studies, University of Oxford, U.K
• B.A. (Hons.), English Literature, Delhi University

Profile

She is a lecturer, researcher, and writer whose work spans issues of gender, human rights, and culture. She has taught an inter-disciplinary cohort of doctoral students and a class of Masters’ in Gender Studies at Ambedkar University, Delhi.  In 2022, she received the Dalai Lama Fellowship for Nalanda Studies from the Foundation
for Universal Responsibility, of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, to write a monograph on the intersection of spirituality and social justice. Her doctoral research on women’s choices vis-à-vis motherhood and mothering won her the Fox Fellowship at Yale University (2013-2014). Dr. Nandy has spent over a decade with grassroots and research organisations, working on primary, action-research, and evaluation studies. In this time, she has also written for several newspapers and portals. All this work delves into different forms of and issues around sexual-and-gender-based violence against women, unpaid labour, as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights.  She is currently working on a conceptual paper on the understanding and praxis of collectivisation by two Adivasi-led trade unions and their socio-political journeys towards justice.

Research interests

• Agency and norms
• Spirituality and social justice
• Politics and ethics of caregiving
• Gender-based violence