Soma Chaudhuri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and The School of Criminal Justice at the Michigan State University. She is a qualitative sociologist whose work focuses on witch hunts, deviant behaviour and social movements. Her dissertation ("Tempest in a Tea Pot: An Analysis of Witch Hunts in the Tea Plantations of India") is a study of how a migrant labour community uses extreme deviance as a form of protest.