Shyam Kumar

Ph.D Candidate & SRF, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi

Shyam Kumar is a PhD student and Senior Research Fellow at the Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. His academic interest revolves around caste, democracy, reservation, social justice, and electoral politics in India. Shyam is a Member Associate at IDEAS and is involved with the Politics, Society & History Constellation.

Dr. Renu Singh

Independent Researcher

Dr. Renu Singh holds a Ph.D. in Women’s and Gender Studies from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi (2023) and has extensive experience in research, teaching, and feminist knowledge production. A recipient of the prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowship. Her work spans gender studies, health rights, technology, biodiversity, and social justice, with professional engagements across academic institutions and civil society organisations including Ashoka University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Dr. Tushar Ghadage

Visiting Faculty, Bennett University, Greater Noida

Dr Tushar Ghadage is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work critically examines the intersections of caste, religion, and social transformation in India. He has served as a Visiting Research Fellow at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and a Consultant for the Initiative for Caste Equity at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He holds a PhD in Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, an MPhil in Anthropology from the University of Hyderabad and an MA in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, his research examines subaltern religious movements and systemic marginalisation in rural Western India. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in the areas of sociology of religion, social movements, and critical caste studies. He is currently working on a research project titled “Contested Devotion: Caste Dynamics and Struggle Over the Ritual Sphere in Warkari Tradition in Western India.”

Sobia Bhat

Independent Researcher PhD, Sociology, South Asian University

Sobia Bhat is a PhD in Sociology from South Asian University, New Delhi. In her doctoral research, she worked on “Poetics of Space: Mosque, Women, and Islam,” where she explores questions of gender, religion, spatiality, and everyday Islamic practices through ethnographic data and theoretical approaches. She was awarded Gold Medal during her M.A. in Sociology at Jamia Millia Islamia University, and holds an undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Physics, which further inform her interdisciplinary academic orientation.

Sidhyendra Sisodia

Doctoral Candidate (UGC-SRF),
UNESCO Chair for Peace and Intercultural Understanding,
Malaviya Centre for Peace Research,
Banaras Hindu University, India.

Dr. Basit Abdullah

Assistant Professor at Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Hyderabad

Basit Abdullah is an Assistant Professor at Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Hyderabad. He has completed his Ph.D. in Economics from Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Thiruvananthapuram. Basit's research interests lie at the intersection of development, labor, and environmental economics, with a specific focus on structural transformation, informality, unemployment, and green jobs. During his doctoral studies, he was a Visiting Ph.D. Fellow at the United Nations University - World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland (2024), and at the University of Southampton, UK (2023). Before joining IMT, Basit worked as a Senior Programme Associate at the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability, and Technology.

Julio César Díaz Calderónh

trans/feminist activist-scholar, poet, data scientist, and street educator, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Security For All

Isha Sharma

PhD candidate at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament in Jawaharlal Nehru University

Pushpak Kumar Roy

PhD candidate at the Centre for International Politics, Organization, and Disarmament (CIPOD)

Dr. Ariel González Levaggi

Associate Professor in the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina

Dr. Maria L. Lagutina

Professor at the World Politics Department at St. Petersburg State University, Russia.

Dr Rafael Bittencourt Rodrigues Lopesh

Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Federal University of Goiás.

Dr. Giovanni Barbieri

Research Fellow at Research Center in Economic Analysis and International Economic Development (CRANEC), Italy

Dr José Augusto Ribas Miranda

Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Austral de Chile