Dr. Deblina Dey is an associate professor of sociology and the assistant director of the Centre for Law and Humanities at the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. She was a Hunt Postdoctoral fellow with the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, based in New York. The University Grants Commission, Government of India, awarded her the Junior and Senior Research fellowships for doctoral research in sociology at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Dr. Dey writes on contemporary socio-legal issues and has published in edited volumes and reputed international journals on topics such as dispute resolution forums for older people, custodial neglect of older political prisoners, and religious norms related to end-of-life care. In 2022, she was awarded the Prof. Nirendra Chandra Choudhury Young Scholar award in social anthropology and sociology for her research contribution by the Indian Anthropological Society. She has been an alumna of academies and workshops organized by the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University, and is a team member for events at the Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSnet), a global platform to generate critical discourse on law in South Asia.
As a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research fellow at DePaul University, Chicago, IL, Dr. Dey is studying different eldercare models in urban India, focusing on the interventions made by law, market and philanthropic institutions. Her ethnographic research highlights the experiences of marginalization in late life and suggests ways to evolve better mechanisms to address abandonment, elder abuse and neglect.