Faculty Members
Ph.D. Scholar & Teaching Fellow
I am a PhD scholar at IIIT-Delhi, where I explore questions at the intersection of heritage, urban politics, governance, and the everyday dynamics of urbanization and mobility. At Urban Research Lab, I look forward to contributing to interdisciplinary initiatives that examine how cities are shaped, contested, and experienced. My academic background includes a Master’s in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, and my research interests lie in heritage spaces, urban politics and governance, and urbanization and mobility.
Sampurna Das is a Teaching Fellow of Sociology at IIIT-Delhi.. Her research focuses on water governance, agrarian relations, and environmental justice in South Asia. She has published in journals like Journal of Peace and Conflict, Journal of Ethnic and Minority Studies, and worked with Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation on feminist and labour rights. A founding member of Just Water Futures and Contributing Editor at Society for Cultural Anthropology, she is completing her PhD in Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her ethnographic thesis explores the social life of uncertainty in the river islands (chars) of Assam, northeastern India.