Professor (Dr.) Pushpesh Kumar teaches sociology at the University of Hyderabad. He has edited the book, Sexuality, Abjection, and Queer Existence in Contemporary India from Routledge. He serves on the international advisory Board of the Community Development Journal published from OUP, UK, and Ireland. He was a British Academy Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, in 2009. He received the M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize for Young Sociologist from the Indian Sociological Society in 2007. As a pro-feminist thinker, he wrote in the Economic and Political Weekly’s special volume on Men and Feminism in India in 2015. In 2017, he was invited by the South Asia Centre at Syracuse University to share his research on Queering Indian Sociology. His areas of interest include gender, sexuality, globalization and social changes, caste and kinship, and pedagogical practices in sociology and social sciences. He has co-edited a special volume on queer and trans community building in post-NALSA and post-377 India (forthcoming).