Dr Proma Raychaudhury has completed her PhD at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University under the EU Marie Curie ETN Global India Fellowship. Her thesis is titled, ‘Gender and Political Parties: Pathways to Women’s Political Participation’. Prior to her joining the PhD, she completed her MA and MPhil from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Her research interests involve gender and politics, feminist Institutionalism, populism, and right-wing politics. She has published peer-reviewed papers and public articles in several fora.She is a co-director at the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network  https://femfiin.org/people/. She is also a member at the Reactionary Politics Research Network  https://reacpol.net/members/

Publications:

1. Monograph titled, ‘Institutional Belonging: Women and Party Politics in West Bengal, India’; under contract with Oxford University Press (USA) series: Studies in Feminist Institutionalism (Forthcoming). 
2. Article titled, ‘After Defeat: Women Workers in the Trinamool Congress’ (Economic & Political Weekly; Vol.61, Issue No. 37, 12 Sep 2026  https://www.epw.in/journal/commentary/after-defeat.html ).
3. Book Chapter titled, ‘Women’s Institutional Belonging and Self-making in a right-wing party in India’; in Volume titled Gender, Institutions and Party Politics; editors Elin Bjarnegård and Meryl Kenny; Oxford University Press, 2025.
4. Book Chapter titled, ‘Gendering Populism: Mamata Banerjee and Women Members of the Trinamool Congress’ in Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya ed. Contesting Populism: Mamata and Bengal in Indian Politics; Cambridge University Press; Forthcoming.
5. Book Chapter titled ‘Women and the Nation in Hindu Nationalism’ in Pratick Mallick ed. Contours of Democracy in New India; Routledge, London and New York, 2025.
6. Article titled, ‘Gendering Loyalty in Indian Electoral Democracy: The Trinamool Congress and its Construction of the Female Constituency in West Bengal’ in Special Issue on Indian General Elections 2024; Economic & Political Weekly; Vol. 59, Issue 48, Nov. 30, 2024, pp.87-95.
7. Book Chapter titled, ‘Resilience Through Vulnerability: Narendra Modi’s Populist Leadership in India’ in Zulianello, M. & Guasti, P. (2024) (Eds.). Capire il populismo. Torino: UTET Università. 
8. Article titled, ‘“Working at becoming a communist”: Institutional Belonging and Political Self-making of Women in the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’; (61:1) in  Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (2023); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2023.2169364 
9. Article titled, ‘The Political Asceticism of Mamata Banerjee: Female Populist Leadership in Contemporary India’ (Politics & Gender (Cambridge University Press); Volume 18 – Issue 4, 2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X21000209 
10. Article titled, ‘Comprehending the Pracharika: A Study of the Social Subjectivities of the Women of the Rashtrasevika Samiti’ published in Social Scientist; Vol. 45, Nos. 7-8, July-August 2017, pp. 43-53. DOI https://www.jstor.org/stable/26380416 
11. Policy Report titled, ‘Running for Local Elections in Ireland: Toolkit for Candidates of a Migrant Background’ (2022) co-authored with Dr Valesca Lima and Teresa Buczkowska (Immigrant Council of Ireland), funded by the Irish Research Council under the New Foundations Project. https://www.immigrantcouncil.ie/sites/default/files/2022-11/Running%20in%20local%20elections%20in%20Ireland%20-%20A%20toolkit%20for%20candidates%20from%20a%20migrant%20background.pdf

Op-eds and Public Pieces:

• Op-ed at Anandabazar Patrika (11/06/2026): https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/essays/what-is-the-opinion-of-tmc-women-leaders-during-this-time-of-crisis-of-the-party-prnt/cid/1692489?fbclid=IwY2xjawT2LdFwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMHhwWUp5Tks3Vkc0dVNnVnJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEefzQwFu1wCebWxP2NPsD0ZGSTfNLY_pfC-9fEhevp-GP6iYqFCxrgZ6gRkAk_aem_OTTnrf_oYtcGQHda1z-p7A
• Op-ed at Anandabazar Patrika (25/02/2026): https://epaper.anandabazar.com/calcutta-north/15/2026-03-06/page-4/article-510377983.html 
• Op-ed at Anandabazar Patrika (31/05/2025):  https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/essays/the-question-arises-whether-the-cocktail-of-big-capital-aggressive-populism-and-social-media-will-unknowingly-turn-our-new-generation-into-residents-of-a-nightmare-prnt/cid/1608283
• Op-ed at Anandabazar Patrika (10/03/2025): https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/essays/zelensky-and-trump-the-diplomatic-spat-between-the-two-populist-leaders-could-create-considerable-controversy/cid/1587293
• Op-ed at Anandabazar Patrika:  https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/essays/essay-politics-and-the-women-of-sandeshkhali/cid/1499361
• Blog titled, ‘Resilience Through Vulnerability: Narendra Modi’s Populist Leadership in India’; in The Loop (European Consortium for Political Research) (2023) https://theloop.ecpr.eu/narendra-modi-indias-vulnerable-strongman-populist-leader/ 
• News Opinion titled, ‘How Mamata won woman vote’ (2021), published in The Indian Express https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/west-bengal-assembly-elections- mamata-banerjee-tmc-women-candidates-7305104/
• News Opinion titled, ‘From ‘Didi’ To ‘Banglar Nijer Meye’: The Rebranding of Mamata Banerjee’ (2021), published in BehanBox. https://behanbox.com/2021/04/13/from-didi-to-banglar-nijer-meye-the-rebranding-of- mamata-banerjee/
• News Opinion titled, ‘Why Baishakhi Banerjee and Sujata Mondal Khan are ‘unruly women’ of Bengal’s party politics’ (2021), published in Newslaundry: https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/03/20/why-baishakhi-banerjee-and-sujata-mondal-khan-are-unruly-women-of-bengals-party-politics
• Blog titled, ‘The Political Party as a Family: Gendered Insights from West Bengal’ published at Doing Sociology (2020).  https://doingsociology2020.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-political-party-as-family- gendered.html
• Blog titled ‘Welfarist Dilemma? The Politics of Gender in West Bengal’s Cash Transfer Schemes’ published at LSE Engenderings (London School of Economics and Political Science) (2020). https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2020/02/13/welfarist-dilemma-the-politics-of-gender-in-west- bengals-cash-transfer-schemes/

Teaching Modules:

• Comparative Politics (POLT204 and POLT307);
• The ‘Strongman’ and the ‘Fakir’: Understanding the Contemporary Global Populist Phenomenon (POLT416);
• Women and Politics in India (POLT328).