Mausumi is a researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam.

As an interdisciplinary academic and researcher, she works on climate-related disasters, (im)mobilities, and their multilevel governance. She is especially interested in exploring critical narratives and everyday practices of social justice and working with displaced/at-risk climate-vulnerable communities.

As a postdoctoral researcher, Mausumi is part of the REPAIR project, hosted by the department. REPAIR is a European Research Council funded 5-year project that studies contemporary calls for reparations across the issues of global development challenges. They include disease outbreaks, nuclear harms, and climate change.

Research methods

• Ethnography
• Critical Discourse and Political Analysis

Current research projects

REPAIR Project

Mausumi’s research looks at the call for reparations in the context of climate change and land loss. Her focus is on the Small Islands Developing States (SIDS)  with a focus on Fiji, Pacific region.

She coordinates the REPAIR Lecture Series. It is a platform where experts, community members, and policy leaders share their work on diverse aspects of reparations. The audience includes academic and non-academic participants.

SEED Grant: LDE Governance of Migration and Diversity, International Insutitute of Social Studies (ISS), part of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ancialliary Activity)

• Platform on Disaster Displacement, Member, Advisory Committee
• Research Fellow, Centre for Governance of Migration and Diversity,  Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities

• B.A. Lead and Teacher, Theme course, Anthropology of Disasters, B.A. 3^rd Year, 2024-2025
• Guest Lecturer, Anthropology of South Asia, 2024-2025