Dr. Manoj Misra earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Alberta, Canada. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Development at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Republic of Korea. After the completion of his PhD, Dr. Misra was invited as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Agrarian Alternatives cluster at Heidelberg University, Germany. His writings have won best graduate paper awards at the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development. He has published research articles in top-tier academic journals including in the Climate and Development, Journal of Agrarian Change, Agriculture and Human Values, and Journal of Contemporary Asia. He regularly writes in newspapers and magazines.