Urmimala Sarkar Munsi retired as the Dean and Professor of Dance Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies at the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML), Delhi. She is a social anthropologist/dance studies scholar and dancer-choreographer. Her most recent publications include (co-edited with Aishika Chakraborty) The Dancing Body: Labour, Livelihood and Leisure (Routledge, 2025); her monographs, Mapping Critical Dance Studies in India (Springer, 2024) and Dancing Modernity: Uday Shankar and his Transcultural Experimentations (Palgrave, 2022); and “Alice Boner Across Geographies and Arts”, (Rietberg Museum, 2021). She is the Dean of Dance at Kerala Kalamandalam (Thrissur) and also serves as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of South Asian Dance Intersections (SADI).