Rate My Professor Srila Roy

Professor Srila Roy is a Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She holds a BA, an MA and a PhD from the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on gender, feminism, postcolonial and transnational studies, sexuality, development, social movements and decolonising knowledge in the Global South. Prior to her appointment at Wits, she served as a lecturer in sociology at another institution. She previously held the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and served as Head of the department before stepping down from that leadership role. In 2024 she delivered her inaugural lecture as Professor at Wits. Roy is the author of the books Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement and Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India. The latter received the Distinguished Book Award in the Sexualities category from the American Sociological Association. Her work has contributed to academic discussions on feminist and queer politics, gender and sexual politics in India under neoliberal conditions, and related themes in sociology.