Dr.Dixita Deka is a social scientist trained in Political Science and follows an interdisciplinary approach in her research, writings, and teaching pedagogy. She completed her PhD in Social Sciences from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the North Eastern Social Research Centre (NESRC), Guwahati between 2022-2023 where she worked in a project on food sovereignty in the Eastern Himalayas funded by the Swedish Research Council. During the project, she carried her fieldwork in Northeast India, Bangladesh, and Nepal’s Mount Everest Region. Her first book, Seeds and Food Sovereignty: Eastern Himalayan Experiences (2023), is a co-authored, open access book written with her project team and the community. In 2024, she was appointed as a Postdoctoral Associate for the prestigious Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University. Her research interests are peace and conflict studies, human rights, violence, qualitative research, and foodways in the Eastern Himalayas.