Angana P. Chatterji (born November 1966) is an Indian anthropologist, activist, and feminist historian, whose research is closely related to her advocacy work and focuses mainly on India.

[5] The topic of her dissertation (completed in 1999) was "The Politics of Sustainable Ecology: Initiatives, Conflicts, Alliances in Public Lands Access, Use and Reform in Orissa.

Her social and academic advocacy work was related to anthropology, as she was examining issues of class, gender, race, religion, and sexuality as formed by background (history) and place (geography).

[18] She has co-contributed to an anthology with Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy et al., Kashmir: The Case for Freedom (2011) and to South Asian Feminisms (2012), co-edited by Ania Loomba and Ritty A.

[19] She is co-editor of Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia; Notes on the Postcolonial Present (2013) and is working on a forthcoming title: Land and Justice: The Struggle for Cultural Survival.

[21] In 2005, she helped form and worked with the Coalition Against Genocide in the United States to raise public awareness and protest the visit of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to the U.S. as an honored guest.

She wrote articles criticizing the Hindutva groups, when fresh religious violence broke out in Orissa after the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda in August 2008.

[32] On 30 August 2010, Chatterji was announced as a member of advisory board of the Kashmir Initiative at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy of Harvard Kennedy School.

[34][35] In November 2010, Chatterji's husband, Richard Shapiro, was denied entry to India by immigration authorities at the Delhi airport,[36][37] and was forced to return to the United States.

Though no official reason was given to Shapiro for the denial of entry,[38] many suspect that he had been denied due to Chatterji's work on human rights issues in Kashmir.