Prof. Polly Vauquline is a Professor and former Head in the Department of Women’s Studies, Gauhati University. Her area of specialization are Gender Geography, Women’s Studies, Gender & climate change, Ecofeminism and Gender Based Violence. She was awarded her Phd from NEHU, Shillong for her thesis on Gender Related Crimes in Greater Guwahati Urban Area in 2006.

She has published various papers in International and National publications as well as presented papers in national and international seminars namely USA, UK, Ireland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Bhutan.   

She was engaged with organisations and institutions like US Consulate, Kolkata, Uppsala University in Sweden, UGC, National Commission for Women, Assam State Commission for Women, North East Network, earth&us in Aruvilla, IOC, UN Women, OKDISCD, Banglanatak dot com etc. for research and academic works.

She completed research projects on; Surrogacy, Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace, Socio-Cultural, Political and Economic Status of Women of North-East India and Water Conservation and Menstrual Hygiene Management  amongst Female Student of Assam. She was engaged with a collaborative International research project as a Research Consultant with UN Women, Unilever and McLeod Russel on Prevention of Violence against Women and Girls Programme in Assam in the Tea Estates of Assam.

She is currently engaged with Warwick University, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration and Chiang Mai University of Thailand.

She was awarded the Gender, Place and Culture Award 2009, for new and Emerging Scholars, by Gender, Place and Culture, A Journal of Feminist Geography, by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.