Shireen is a political theorist working at the intersection of caste, religion, and labour. At NLSIU, Shireen will work on her first monograph, tentatively titled ‘Reclaiming Caste: A New History of the Muslim in Modern India.’

She was previously at the Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai, where she founded and headed the digital initiative EPW Engage.

Her recently concluded DPhil at the University of Oxford centres around lower-caste Muslims in the political and constitutional history of India from late 19th-21st century. While housed at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, she taught undergraduate courses in History, Anthropology, and Politics at Oxford. She has a Master’s in Religion and Public Policy from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and a Master’s in Philosophy from the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities.