Gender and Sexuality Studies

Biography

Dr. Lopamudra Sengupta is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at Bangabasi College, Calcutta University. Her areas of specialization are Human Rights, Gender Studies, and Sustainable Development in South Asia. She is associated with the transgender movement in Kolkata for more than two decades and is former member of the West Bengal Transgender Persons Development Board. She received the best paper award at the second National Conference on Politics and Governance, at India International Centre, New Delhi, in 2014. She also received the best paper presentation award at the First World Asian Studies Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2015. She is the recipient of the prestigious Shastri Indo-Canadian Publication Grant (SPG 2019, New Delhi) for her monograph Beyond the Binary: The Third Gender in India published by Routledge in 2023. Dr. Lopamudra Sengupta received UGC Travel Grant, in 2018-2019 for presenting her paper in Toronto, Canada in July 2018 organized by International Sociological Conference. She has been awarded a grant for a major research project and is working as the Project Director in the project on Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development of the rural artisans in West Bengal by the Indian Council of Social Science Research and Ministry of Human Resource Development. (MHRD, New Delhi)