Runa Das Chaudhuri is trained in sociology and has a PhD from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). At present, she teaches as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, BHK Mahavidyalaya. Her work has been published in several journals, such as South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Contemporary South Asia, International Sociology Reviews, and Entanglements: Experiments in Multimodal Ethnography, and in edited volumes, including Sarai Reader 09: Projections, among others. Her areas of specialization include the sociology of urban consumption in India and the histories of spiritualist practices in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal.