His broad area of interest is nature-society relations. In particular, Mitul’s work addresses the political ecology of rural transformations, with a specific focus on land and water governance, environmental conflicts and social movements, livelihoods, agrarian changes, and hazards and vulnerability. Mitul obtained a Ph.D. in Geography from Syracuse University in 2016. His dissertation looked at the political ecology of “hazardscape” in the Brahmaputra valley, Assam, wrought by the twin processes of flooding and riverbank erosion. This research was based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in different parts of Assam.