Dr. Rai Ganguly

Dr. Rai Ganguly presently serves as Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies and Humanities, UPES. Her areas of interest include sociolegal studies, feminist jurisprudence, land rights, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She teaches courses such as Social Sciences Research Methods, Migration, Culture and Literature, and British Literature I.

With academic training in English and Sociology, Dr. Ganguly’s interdisciplinary career spans academia and the development sector. She has taught Liberal Arts courses in universities in Dehradun, worked with policy think tanks such as International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), and conducted ethnographic field research in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Delhi. She currently works at the intersection of policy and praxis, with a focus on SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities).

Sociolegal Studies | Feminist Jurisprudence | Land Rights | Gender Justice | Legal Ethnography | Migration Studies | Urban Sociology | Sustainable Development Goals | Inequality Studies

Inspired by the educational philosophies of Rabindranath Tagore and Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dr. Ganguly believes in dissolving the boundaries between classroom learning and the real world. Her pedagogy emphasizes critical inquiry, lived realities, and socially engaged learning.

Gender and Law | Population and Society | Sociology of Ethnicity | Economy and Society | Logic | Critical Thinking and Argumentation | Climate Change | Social Sciences Research Methods | Migration, Culture and Literature | British Literature I

• Erasmus Scholarship awarded at Pompeu Fabra University in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Ferrer Riba. 
• Visiting Fellowship (Jan–Jun 2022) awarded by the Institute of Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University under the supervision of Prof. Hengameh Saberi.

Dr. Ganguly regularly presents her sociolegal research at international academic forums organized by institutions such as DAAD, the Creative Theory Colloquium, and The Australian Sociological Association (TASA). 

She has contributed to a collaborative volume with scholars from Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and Tata Institute of Social Sciences on reducing inequality, with a focus on land inequality. 

Her research in Uttarakhand explores youth migration locally referred to as palayan and its urban linkages for a special urban sociology volume on The City, published by D’Annunzio University. 

She is also deeply engaged in feminist jurisprudence through legal ethnography, examining statutes, amendments, case law, and judgments of quasi-legal institutions to understand how law and society shape one another.

rai.ganguly@ddn.upes.ac.in