Inshah Malik

Inshah Malik a political theorist and a gender studies scholar with a PhD from the Center for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is also a former Fox Fellow at Yale University, and served as a visiting professor at many other universities, including Northwestern and University of Washington. Very recently, she worked as an assistant professor in Afghanistan before its government collapsed in 2021. Inshah’s ethnographic work on the Kashmir region, located north of India, was published in the form of a monograph Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics: The Case of Kashmir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Her research interests include political theory, history of Islam, political movements, internet activism, and gender studies in the Caucuses, Central and South Asia, particularly Georgia, Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Kashmir. She has travelled and conducted extensive research in these countries, she is currently working as a visiting scholar at Ilia State University in Georgia.