Professor Maitrayee Chaudhuri has retired from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests have been on the making of the public discourse in modern India. Her early work focused on nationalism, colonialism, and feminism in India. Since the early 1990s, she has been looking at the changing nature of public discourse in the context of both neoliberalism and the rise of majoritarianism. She was a DAAD Visiting Professor at Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg in Germany (2003), and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University (1995-1996) as well as at the University of Massachusetts (1995-1996). Professor Chaudhuri was the expert on Asia for “A Feasibility Study of Women, Intangible Heritage and Development” conducted by UNESCO and the Iranian National Commission for Culture in 2001 and the coordinator for the JNU Global Studies MA Program in collaboration with the University of Freiburg, Germany and University of Natal, South Africa. Her commitment to institution building and the development of the discipline is evident from her work as the President of the Indian Sociological Society (ISS) and as a co-founder of Doing Sociology. She is a leading Indian sociologist whose work has been central to the development of gender studies in India. Her scholarship critically examines how gender is embedded in public discourse, particularly in the context of liberalization and globalization. Her books on gender include Refashioning India: Gender, Media, and a Transformed Public Discourse, Indian Women’s Movement: Reform and Revival and Feminism in India. Her other published articles include Gender and Advertisements: The Rhetoric of Globalization, Feminism in Print Media, Feminism in India: The Tale and its Telling, Indian Media and its Transformed Public, Gender in the Making of the Indian Nation-State, Learning through Teaching the Sociology of Gender and Indian Modernity and Tradition: A Gender Analysis.