Anupama Roy

Anupama Roy
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre: 
Centre for Political Studies,
School of Social Sciences
Room No: 
128
Off. Phone: 
011-26704602
Email: 
anupamaroy@mail.jnu.ac.in , royanupama07@gmail.com
Personal Webpage: 
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/anupamaroy/cv.pdf
Qualifications: 
PhD (State University of New York, Binghamton, USA) 
Areas of Interest/Specialization: 

Citizenship Studies, Political Institutions, Gender and Migration, Law and Politics 

Experience: 

4 July 2015 onwards: Chairperson, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

26 May 2014 to 30th June 2016: Concurrent faculty and Chairperson, Centre for Media Studies, JNU

18 October 2010 onwards: Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

15 October 2008 to 18 October 2010: Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

19 August 2004 to 18 October 2008: Senior Fellow, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi

December 1999 to August 2004: Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh 

September 1992 to May 1996: Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, USA 

Awards & Honours: 

Residential Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, 3 January 2016 to 8 January 2016.

Key Technology Partner Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, 6 August 2013 to 6 September 2013.

Short Term Guest Professor under the ‘A New Passage to India’ Programme funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange), at theInstitutefor Political Science and Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, to teach a Masters’ Course on ‘Constitutional Democracy’, 2 June 2013 to 20 July 2013. 

Parson Visitor, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Sydney, 20 May to 12June, 2012.

Sir Ratan Tata Fellowship at the Institute of Economic Growth, University Enclave, Delhi, January 2002-September 2003

Dissertation Year Fellowship awarded by the University Awards Committee, Binghamton University, August 1997-June1998

Nehru Centenary British Fellowship, School of Oriental and African Studies, March 1990 to April 1991

Junior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission, July 1988-February 1990 

International Collaboration/Consultancy: 

January 2013 to December 2015: British Academy Research Project on ‘Transnational abandonment of South Asian Women: A new form of Violence against Women’ in collaboration with Sundari Anitha at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom.

1 July 2016 to 30 June 2010: UGC-DAAD Research Project on ‘Foundations of the India-Europe Strategic Partnership: Comparative Perspectives on Indian and European Political Ideas, Policy and International Cooperation’, in collaboration with the University of Wurzburg, Germany under the Indo-German Partnership in Higher Education.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5): 

"Liminal and Legible: Gendered Citizenship and State-Formative Practices in the 1950s", Chapter in Anne R. Epstein and Rachel G. Fuchs eds., Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2016.

"Ambivalence of Citizenship in Assam", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.51, Nos.26-27, 25 June 2016.

"The Masculinist Security State and Anti-terror Law Regimes in India" (co-authored), Asian Studies Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, June 2015.

Critical Events, Incremental Memories and Gendered Violence: The "Delhi Gang Rape", Australian Feminist Review, Vol.29, Issue 89, 2014.

"Identifying Citizens: Electoral Rolls, the Right to Vote and the Election Commission of India", Election Law Journal (special issue on Election Laws in India, edited by David Gilmartin and Robert Moog),June, 2012. 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3): 

Citizenship in India, Oxford India Short Introduction Series, OUP, Delhi, 2016.

Mapping Citizenship in India, Oxford UniversityPress,

Delhi,September, 2010 (Reprint, October 2014).

Poverty, Gender and Migration in Asia, (co-edited), Sage, Delhi, 2006.

Patents (if any): 

NA