Dr. Dutta’s current work explores the phenomena of everyday violence through two interconnected lines of inquiry:I. Gendered Violence in Northeast India: Centering Women’s Analysis: This project investigates gendered patterns of violence in the Northeastern borderlands of India, where Dr. Dutta was born and raised. Foregrounding Garo tribal women’s analysis, her critical ethnographic research investigates the spectrum of violence—domestic violence, sex trafficking, sexual abuse, direct violence, and economic exploitation—that shape Garo women’s daily lives. Highlighting how patriarchal power is produced and maintained at the intersections of coloniality, militarism, and matrilineal social systems, this work also explores how women engage in everyday resistance and activism. II. Disrupting Everyday Violence Through Action Research: Dr. Dutta uses participatory and action research methodologies to understand, document, and address everyday violence experienced by youth in Lowell, MA. This work is carried out in collaboration with youth-based organizations and is explicitly focused on creating opportunities for critical youth assertion and youth resistance. Examples of (youth-driven) issues taken up in this work include transforming damage-centered of narratives of Lowell and advocating for change of dress-code policies that reproduce gendered inequalities. In addition to these projects, Dr. Dutta is also committed to the promotion of epistemic justice, i.e., development of conceptual frameworks and pedagogical approaches that disrupt the violence inherent in intellectual colonization. Current projects in this area include: decolonizing the construct of “community” in community-based research and practice; rethinking citizenship, migration, and belonging by centering Southern contexts and feminist theory.