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Shefali Jha

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Political Studies,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

111

Off. Phone

011-26704610

shefali@mail.jnu.ac.in ; shefalimh@yahoo.com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/shefali/cv.pdf

Qualifications

M.A., Ph.D in Political Science (UCLA)

M.A., M.Phil in Political Science (JNU)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Political Thought and Theory, Democracy and Constitutionalism, Gender Studies

Experience

Professor, Centre for Political Studies, JNU, 2013-

Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, JNU, 2003-2013

Assistant Professor, Miranda House, DU, 1995-2003

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Western Political Thought: From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times, 2^nd ed., Delhi: Pearson, 2018

‘Dilemmas of Community: Reflections on Transmigrant Working Women in Qatar’, Nidaba – Journal of Middle East Studies, Lund University, Sweden, June 2016.

‘Engendering Political Science in the Classroom’, Studies in Indian Politics, Vol. 3, No. 1, June 2015.

‘Democratic Constitutionalism in India’, Seminar, No. 642, February, 2013.

‘When Citizens are a Minority: Managing Cultural Diversity in the Arabian Gulf States’ in G. Mahajan, ed. Accommodating Diversity: Ideas and Institutional Practices, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.

‘Rights versus Representation: Defending Minority Interests in the Constituent Assembly’, in R. Bhargava, ed. Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Western Political Thought – from Plato to Marx, New Delhi: Pearson, 2010.

Patents (if any)