Project Team
Meet The Team
Our international team works between Northumbria University, Lancaster University and IIT Delhi.
Katherine Baxter
Katherine Baxter is Professor of English Literature and Deputy Faculty Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Exchange) in the Faculty of`Arts, Design and Social Sciences at Northumbria University. Her research engages with law and literature in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
Bharat Hun
Bharat Hun is a social anthropologist whose research interests include aspects of the Thar desert such as state-people relationship, pastoralism and desert ecology.
Neha Meena
Neha Meena is Assistant Professor (Guest) at the Department of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi. She submitted her Ph.D. dissertation at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2023. Her research interests focus on the themes of citizenship, bureaucracy, documentary practices, anthropology of borders, pastoralism, mobility and identity politics.
Aamir Raza
Aamir Raza is an Independent Researcher based in New Delhi, India. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. He was previously associated with Lokniti-CSDS , and the UN Women and the Institute of Perception Studies. His areas of research interests include electoral politics, representation, minority studies, ethnic politics and democratization.
Christina Woolner
Christina Woolner is a social anthropologist based in the UK. Her research explores the social and political dynamics of popular music and oral poetry in Somaliland and the Somali diaspora. She has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge, where she also held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and is currently an Affiliated Researcher.