Dr Sumita Mukherjee is a historian of British Empire and Indian Subcontinent.

[2][3] Her work focuses primarily on the transnational mobility of South Asian people during the 19th and 20th centuries.

[1] Before teaching at the University of Bristol, she taught at University of Cambridge, De Montfort, Glasgow, King's College London, London School of Economics and Oxford.

[1] Dr. Mukherjee's work was instrumental in the inclusion of Indian suffragettes Sophia Duleep Singh and Lolita Roy on the plinth of the Millicent Fawcett statue in Parliament Square, London.

[4] As of 2024, she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Deputy Editor of the academic journal Women's History Review.