Prof. Janaki Nair, retired as Professor of Modern History, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU Delhi, has been awarded the Germany Fellowship of ICAS:MP and will spend the next ten weeks as senior visiting fellow at our department. She is member and module coordinator of module TM5 “The Challenge of Gender”, currently working on the research project “The Ambiguous Promise of the Law: An Argument out of India”. Furthermore, Janaki Nair is hosted as fellow by Siebold-Collegium – Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS) of Würzburg University.
Her fields of research, writing, and teaching include labour, urban and legal history, feminism and visual culture.