Durba Mitra is a feminist historian and theorist whose scholarship spans women's, gender, and sexuality studies and global intellectual history. She is the author of The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026), which reveals how Third World feminism transformed twentieth-century political thought, and the award-winning Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton University Press, 2020), on sexuality and the modern social sciences.