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Dr. Sumit Saurabh Srivastava is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Allahabad. He is the recipient of the M.N. Srinivas Memorial Young Sociologist Award 2015 given by the Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi and is associated with the Indian Anthropologist, the biannual
journal of the Indian Anthropological Association, New Delhi in the capacity of Associate Editor.

Dr. Sumit has guided 4 scholars to PhD awards, 3 research scholars are awaiting their Ph.D. viva-voce and currently 3 research scholars are under his research supervision.

His research area pertains to Development Studies with emphasis on gender, sanitation, social exclusion, and violence. Along with contributing chapters in scholarly edited volumes published by Rawat, Sage and Routledge; he has also published in journals of repute. His book titled Sulabh Sanitation in India: Issues,
Challenges and Prospects (2022) was recently published by Rawat Publications.

His ongoing gradual transition from the discipline of Sociology to Development Studies is anchored in
interdisciplinarity as is evident on publication/s on gender and sanitation on one hand and gender and sexuality on the other. In between his scholarship on social movements has been also noteworthy. Overall, these also coincide with his research and teaching interests including intersectionality between exclusion and violence and can be broadly understood as his ever-evolving academic specialisations. Many of his inter-disciplinary publications substantiate his claim to the openness of academic knowledge and scholarship taking society in India in particular as the landscape.