Prof. Ananya Sharma is an assistant professor of International Relations (IR). Her principal
areas of academic focus include IR theory, intellectual histories of the global south, disciplinary
histories of gender in IR, and more recently the implications of utopianism in the discipline
of IR. Several of her research articles have been published in edited volumes and conference
proceedings. She earned a PhD from the Centre for International Relations, Organisation and
Disarmament, School of International Studies, JNU.