BIOGRAPHY

She is offering consultation with a critical perspective on a number of politically relevant issues like inter-State disputes and sub-national movements in India. Broadly, the focus of her work has been the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, communalisation of space, and the politics of urban transformation in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Her book, Contested Homelands: Politics of Space and Identity is scheduled to be published by the Bloomsbury Publications in 2020 (https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/search?q=contested+homeland&Gid=1). Parveen completed her Ph.D. from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has worked as an assistant professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Parveen has also worked in the UK, India, and Nepal on different government- and EU-funded research programs since 2002. She was the recipient of ICSSR post-doctoral fellowship 2018, Royal Society of New Zealand Doctoral Scholarship 2013–2016, ICSSR-CSDS Doctoral Fellowship Programme 2010–2012 and ASIA Fellows Awards 2008–2009. She also writes opinion pieces on current affairs for academic journals and digital news portals.