Dr. Iswar Chandra Naik working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, from June 2022. Dr. Naik received an M.A. degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi in 2003, M. Phil degree in Social Anthropology from Delhi University in 2004 and Ph. D degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi in 2010. Before joining here, he worked as Assistant Professor at NISWASS and KIIT University, including Deans and Associate Professor of Sociology at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He has more than twelve years of teaching and research experience. His teaching and research interests include Environmental Movements, Naxalite Movements, Dalit Movements, Tribal Movements, Political Sociology, Tribal Sociology, Social Stratification and Inequality, Sociology of Development, Development and Local Governance, Rural Sociology and Caste and Tribe in India. He has qualified NET examination in sociology conducted by the University Grants Commission of India. He has presented more than 25 research papers in National and International Seminars/Conferences in Indian and Abroad. He has organized several National and International Conferences, including the Indian Sociological Society’s 41^st All-Indian Sociological Conference in 2015 as organizing secretary. He was also selected and participated in the International Visitor’s Leadership Program (IVLP) by the U.S. Department of State, USA in 2018. He has contributed more than 22 research papers to different journals and published two books, Environmental Movements, State and Civil Society, by Rawat Publication in 2016   and Scheduled Caste: A Sociological Study of Dombo in Odisha by SSDN Publication, New Delhi in 2021. Two scholars have been awarded the PhD degree under his supervision.