Sangeeta Roy PhD Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India

Roy received her PhD from the School of Gender Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, India. Roy’s PhD and Pre Doctoral research focusses on gendered schooling experiences of young people at the intersection of multiple marginalities of gender, ethno-migrant identity and class. Roy’s doctoral research engages with the ways in which migrant ethnic identities are articulated through constructions of gender and sexuality in the context of schooling experiences of adolescents of Bihari descent in West Bengal, India.

Crime runs as a leitmotif in Roy's research as she attempts to understand the mundane processes through which institutions such as public schools are able to disqualify boys of 'Bihari' ethno-migrant descent from becoming 'learners' by identifying them as ‘criminals’ or ‘criminals-in-the-making’. 

At the core of Roy's research is attention to Ethics - Roy's position as Indian- Hindu –Upper Caste- Urban-Bengali-Bhadralok - translates into 'Brown' power in her society. Her intersectional socio-cultural location extend to her a normative and unmarked status in the ethnographic field and in social spaces at large. Roy's awareness that the ethnographic field grants her a status of epistemic impunity more often situates her in a complex web of guilt, shame, responsibility and critical self-interrogation.