Vidhu Verma is currently Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has been educated in the universities of Delhi, JNU and Oxford. She has also been Chairperson of the Centre for Political Studies (CPS), the Gender Sensitization Committee against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH) and the Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion (CSDE). She was also Director of Educational Records Research Unit (ERRU), School of Social Sciences, JNU.
Her areas of research include Comparative Political Theory, feminist political theory, state and civil society, affirmative action…
Vidhu Verma is currently Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has been educated in the universities of Delhi, JNU and Oxford. She has also been Chairperson of the Centre for Political Studies (CPS), the Gender Sensitization Committee against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH) and the Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion (CSDE). She was also Director of Educational Records Research Unit (ERRU), School of Social Sciences, JNU.
Her areas of research include Comparative Political Theory, feminist political theory, state and civil society, affirmative action policies and social justice in India. She has recently edited and contributed to a volume on “Unequal Worlds” (OUP, New Delhi). She is author of three books “Non-discrimination and Equality in India: Contesting boundaries of Social Justice” (Routledge, London 2012), “Malaysia: State and Civil Society in Transition” (Lynne Rienner, USA 2002), and “Justice, Equality and Community” (Sage 1999) and besides articles in several journals. She has been a visiting fellow, Maison Des Science de L’Homme in 1994 and in 2006. She was Senior Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research (2008-2010).
She has been involved with many projects as Director, Political Institutions (Collaborative), UPOE, JNU, (2005-2007), Member, Minorities in India, (UPOE), JNU (2014-2017) and currently as Principal Investigator, of sponsored project on ‘Changing Conceptions of Legal Justice in India’, ICSSR, (2014-2015).
