Profile

Neha’s research interests include citizenship, border studies, bureaucracies, cross-border mobility, pastoralism, and multispecies ethnography. Her doctoral dissertation at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, examined the relationship between law, bureaucracy, and citizenship through the lens of Pakistani Hindu migrants in Rajasthan. Her work engages with socio-legal questions of citizenship practices, documentary regimes and borders, using interdisciplinary and ethnographic approaches.

Prior to joining NLSIU, Neha taught Sociology at Miranda House, University of Delhi, including courses such as Sociology of Gender, Sociology of India, and Media, Culture, and Society. She has also served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where she contributed to research on multispecies relations in desert regions across Asia and East Africa.

Her research has been published in academic journals and presented at national and international conferences.