Professor Medha
Assistant Professor School of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: medha@snu.edu.in
My primary research interests lie in recovering constructions and contestations of local and global orders with a focus on the role of stigmatized identities in IR, with a particular focus on Islam and caste in the South Asian context. In this regard I am currently writing a book provisionally title...
Research Overview
My primary research interests lie in recovering constructions and contestations of local and global orders with a focus on the role of stigmatized identities in IR, with a particular focus on Islam and caste in the South Asian context. In this regard I am currently writing a book provisionally titledEscaping the Nation: India, Islam, and International Relations. Via an analysis of Islam in India's identity and foreign policy, the book demonstrates that ‘Muslimness' in India's international articulations often served as attempts to constitute an alternate form of sovereignty that escaped the bounds of the postcolonial nation state. My research also seeks to foreground caste in international relations and diplomacy. With my colleague Sruthi Muraleedharan I am co-editing a special issue on ‘The International in Ambedkar' based on a workshop organised on the topic in November 2022. With Kalathmika Natarjan (University of Exeter) I am working on a project problematising the uncritical use of the term ‘pariah' in international relations. In this regard we have recently submitted a co-authored paper titled‘Pariah' States and ‘Untouchable' Subjects: Foregrounding Caste in International Relationsfor a special issue on ‘Caste and Diplomacy' for the Hague Journal of Diplomacy. History and International Relations Islam and IR Caste and IR Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory Discourse Theory Know More: Click Here
Education
PhD ( Christian Albrecht Universität zu Kiel & GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany (awaiting) MA Media Studies and Politics (specialization: war and conflict) Aarhus Universitet, Denmark and Swansea University, UK (with a semester at University of Amsterdam), 2010 Post-Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication, Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication (SIMC), Pune, India, 2002 BA (Special) English, Pune University, India, 2000
Experience
Research Fellow, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany, Oct. 2018-Aug. 2019 Research Consultant, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 2013-Jan.2014 Research Associate, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India, Mar. 2012-Jul. 2013 Reporter, The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, Canada, Jun. 2011-Mar. 2012 Assistant Producer/Reporter, Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jul. 2009-Sep. 2009 South Asian Fellow/Reporter, Deutsche Welle, Bonn, Germany, Jan. 2008-Jul. 2008 Senior Copy Editor, The Times of India, Pune, India, Jan. 2006-Jun. 2007
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Awards & Honors
- Emerging Scholars Forum, Global Perspectives Journal 2019-2021 Research Fellowship, Institute of Asia Studies, German Institute of Global and Area Studies 2019 DAAD Graduate School Scholarship 2014-2019 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, European Commission 2008-2010 South Asia Fellowship, Deutsche Welle, Bonn 2008
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