Biography

Dr. Debotri Dhar's work primarily engages the gendered intersections of international relations, policy, and humanitarian education, situating it within a framework of more balanced international relations between the West and the Global South. She is also a novelist and short story writer. Dr. Dhar has authored and edited seven books including Education and Gender and co-edited Education in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands, both by Bloomsbury Academic (London, New York, New Delhi, Sydney), published book chapters and articles in journals such as Postcolonial Text, Transformations, Feminist Formations, and Dialog, and her next book on paradigms and policies to address rape victims' suicides is forthcoming. Dr. Dhar has given papers and talks at universities such as Harvard (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Ashoka Young India Fellowship, Oxford, Princeton, Boston, U-Pennsylvania,  Delhi and numerous others, as well as at India International Centre, India Habitat Centre, British Council-Kolkata, and wider audiences. She has served as a reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), Indian Institute for Advanced Study fellowship and National Women's Studies conference papers, a judge for the Barbara Deming Fund for women writers (New York), Kitaab's Best Asian writing series (Singapore), and several others. She previously taught at the University of Michigan, where she was affiliated with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Center for the Education of Women, and Ford School of Public Policy's Center for Finance, Law and Policy, and served as faculty adviser for public diplomacy research on gender violence. She has also mentored student research for the Cambridge Centre for International Research (CCIR), UK. Dr. Dhar writes for newspapers and magazines such as The Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle, Outlook and OPEN magazines. Debotri has also consulted, on short-term basis, with organizations in the public, private and non-profit sectors, such as Manavi that works to address violence against women in the United States. Dr. Dhar is the founder of the Hummingbird Global Writers Circle and Leaders Forum.