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Papori Bora

Assistant Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Women's Studies

School of Social Sciences

Room No

429

Off. Phone

011-26708962

paporibora@mail.jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

PhD, Feminist Studies, with minor in Development Studies and Social Change, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2011.

MA, Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

BA, Political Science (with Honors), Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Feminist Theory and Methodology; Postcolonial and Transnational Feminist Theories; Gendered Violence; Democracy and Human Rights; Feminist Political Theory; Law and Citizenship; Sexuality Studies; Queer Theory; Globalization and Diaspora Studies; Transnational Migration; Gender and Development; South Asian History, Politics and Culture; Subaltern Studies; Asian Borderlands; Gender and Politics in India’s Northeast

Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 2011-2013.

Graduate Instructor, University of Minnesota, 2006-2010

Courses taught in the past: Feminist Theory; Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Theories; Feminist Research and Pedagogy; Gender, Labor and Politics; Introduction to Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; Women’s Contemporary Fictions; Women’s Movements and Gender Studies; History of Modern India

Awards & Honours

Post Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia, Canada (declined) 2011-12

Graduate Instructor Teaching Award, Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota, 2008-09

Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Global Change University of Minnesota, 2008-09

Mac Arthur Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota, 2003-04

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

"Between the Human, the Citizen and the Tribal: Reading Feminist Politics in India’s Northeast." International Feminist Journal of Politics, 12:3-4:341–360, 2010

"Between the Human, the Citizen and the Tribal: Reading Feminist Politics in India’s Northeast," in eds. Sylvanna Falcon Collins, Sharmila Lodhia and Molly Talcott. New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights. New York: Routledge, 2011.

"Speech of the Nation and Conversations at the Margins of the Nation State." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 17.5 (2015): 669-685.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

"Politics of Difference in the Northeast: A Feminist Reflection," in eds. Yasmin Saikia and Amit Rahul Baishya. Northeast India: A Place of Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017

“The Problem Without A Name: Comments on Culural Difference (Racism) in India." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 42, Issue 5, 2019. [https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1644476]

"Interrogating India's Northeast as an Object of Knowledge Production," in ed. Hoineilhing Sitlhou. Identity and Marginality in North East India:Challenges for Social Science Research. Orient Blackswan (Forthcoming)

Patents (if any)