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Anindita Chatterjee, before joining Ashoka, worked as an Assistant Professor from 2022 to 2025 at BRAC University (Dhaka), where she currently maintains an affiliation. Dr. Chatterjee has held Academic appointments at the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh, American University of Sharjah (UAE) and at Symbiosis International University (Pune). After completing her Ph.D. in 2019, Dr. Chatterjee held research appointments at Max Weber Stiftung IBO (New Delhi), and she has been a Postdoctoral Research Consultant with Prof. Sarah Lamb (Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University) on her Andrew Carnegie Fellowship project. Dr. Chatterjee completed her M.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Anthropology. By training, she is an anthropologist, but she engages with other interdisciplinary areas. Her research projects have been funded by several prestigious organizations like the Indian Council of Social Science and Research (ICSSR), South Asia Research Fellowship (UT, Austin), Taraknath Das Foundation (managed by Columbia University), National Science Foundation and Fulbright Fellowship.

Dr. Chatterjee鈥檚 current book manuscript, based on her doctoral research, examines two distinct developments in contemporary South Asia: the feminization of domestic labour and India鈥檚 rapid urbanization arising from its adoption of neoliberal economic reforms. Her dissertation, 鈥淓veryday Talk and Gendered Labour,鈥� is currently a manuscript to be published by Routledge: UK in 2025/26 under the (tentative title) Domestic Attachments: Narratives on Gendered Labor and Exclusion. It is a study on how labour relations operate trans-regionally in Kolkata, Delhi, and Noida consisting of bi-lingual migrant workers. Besides studying employer-worker relations, it also focuses on worker relations in their own squatter settlements to explore the interactions amongst diverse female migrant workers from a similar economic structure, yet possessing different social standings. Dr. Chatterjee was selected for the dissertation to book workshop sponsored by AIIS (American Institute of Indian Studies) at Madison, Wisconsin in October 2022.

Dr. Chatterjee has presented her research findings at multiple international and national conferences over the past decade, and she also has a record of producing collaborative research with an international network of scholars. In 2020, she published an article as the first author in a special issue of IJSL on Language, Inequality and Global Care-Work and this article is co-authored with Dr. Anne Schluter (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University). She has a book chapter in Home, belonging and memory in migration: Leaving and Living, edited by Sadan Jha & Pushpendra, 121-136. London & New Delhi: Routledge (2021).