Dr. Kalyani Unkule is Associate Professor, JGLS and Director & Head of the Office of Alumni Relations, JGU. She is also a visiting professor at ISDE Law and Business School in Spain and Stockholm University Faculty of Law in Sweden. Having completed her BA and MA degrees respectively in Economics and Social Work, in 2007 she received the Erasmus Mundus scholarship to pursue MA/MSc Global Studies at London School of Economics and University of Leipzig. Her doctoral work at Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, was at the intersection of international relations theory and international law. She is the author of Internationalising the University: A Spiritual Approach, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Most recently, she is a recipient of the Commonwealth Peace and Reconciliation Challenge Grant for 2021-22.
Kalyani regularly appears as an expert commentator on global affairs on India’s most respected national news network NDTV 24/7
Monograph:
- Internationalising the University: a Spiritual Approach (Palgrave Macmillan 2019)
- Protecting Heritage: Challenges and Prospects for International Cooperation (Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming, tentative title)
- Currently also serving as book proposal reviewer with Palgrave Macmillan
Journal Articles:
IDSA web commentaries:
- Conflict and Cooperation in the Arctic;
- Case of UK- France Defence Cooperation.
Op-Ed
- Road ahead for Australia-India collaboration in higher education (India News Australia, July 2020)
JSIA-CIES web commentaries:
- Professor Thankdika Mkandawire’s Legacy: Lessons for Higher Education and it’s Internationalisation
- A Diamond with many Facets (on demands for return of the Kohinoor diamond to India)
- The AlBashir saga and India’s International Obligations
- Perspectives on US Mass Incarceration
- Reimagining India’s Role in the Thirty Meter Telescope Project
- Eurocentrism, Solidarity and the Migrant Crisis
- UK election 2015: The Outcome
- Global Nationalisms: An Analytical Challenge for International Relations
Other Web Commentaries
- University World News: Internationalising of HE for society comes of age
- University World News: An opportunity to change international higher education?
- South Asia Monitor: Ego as a driver in International Diplomacy
- Policy Times: Equipping the new student for the brave new world
- Fortune: The glass cliff – Implications for women’s leadership
- Shiksha.com web commentary: Study in India: Meaningfully Internationalising Indian Higher Education
- Business World Education web commentary – Study Abroad and Employability
- THEWIRE.IN web commentary – No ‘Monuments Men’ for Heritage Under Siege in Syria, May 2015
- DSA dialogues web commentary – Freedom of Expression and Security: the Quest for Balance, Jan 2015.
Book Chapters:
- From nowhere to now-here: Academic Nomadism between defiance and continuity in Borderlands: The Internationalisation of Higher Education Teaching Practices (Springer forthcoming)
- Co-authored chapter on proposed India-EU FTA for the edited volume India in the Contemporary World: Polity, Economy and International Relations (Routledge 2014).
- Meer dan diamant en chocolade? Het beeld van België in India in Het wiel van Ashoka. Belgisch-Indiase contacten in historisch perspectief, Idesbald Goddeeris (ed.), Published by Leuven University Press, October 2013
- Co-authored chapter on proposed India-EU FTA for the edited volume India in the Contemporary World: Polity, Economy and International Relations (Routledge 2014).
- Meer dan diamant en chocolade? Het beeld van België in India in Het wiel van Ashoka. Belgisch-Indiase contacten in historisch perspectief, Idesbald Goddeeris (ed.), Published by Leuven University Press, October 2013
Book Reviews:
Thought Leadership
- Homogenize and Rule: Empires of the Mind in 21st Century Higher Education in CAPA Occasional Publications No. 9 Empires of the Mind? (Post)Colonialism & Decolonizing Education Abroad, 2021
- The East-West Encounter: a Pedagogical Experience in CAPA Occasional Publications No. 7 Globalization, Civilization, and Their Discontents, 2018
- As Research Associate with Aviotech Defense Advisory and Investments – Spearheaded Creation of Company’s Thought Leadership Series, with 15 Thought Leadership and Market Opportunity papers/reports/briefs published in one year on defense, homeland security and bilateral ties.
Visiting Appointments
- Visiting Professor with Stockholm University Faculty of Law Summer Programme, since July 2020
- Visiting Scholar at China National Institute for SCO International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation, Shanghai, Dec 2018
- Guest Faculty Member on Master’s in International Law, Foreign Trade and International Relations program at the Superior Institute of Law and Economics (ISDE), Spain
- Visiting scholar and guest lecturer at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University, California, 2017
- Visiting Scholar at William Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, 2015
- Visiting Scholar at University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, December 2014
- Visiting Fellow at Koc University, Istanbul, Dec 2013-Jan 2014
- Visiting Fellow at Katholieke University of Leuven, 2011
International / National Consultancies and Assignments
- Founded The Whiteboard Initiative in 2011 to provide support for stronger Higher Education ties between India and Europe – endorsed by the European Commission.
- Parliamentary Research and Advocacy Project on Fighting Age Discrimination at the House of Lords, UK.
- Project entitled South Intellectual Platform with South Centre, Geneva in 2008.
- Field Investigator and Contributor to Centre for Civil Society’s Delhi Citizen Handbook, a critical enquiry into functioning of Delhi Government in 2005.
