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Dr Saba Joshi
Lecturer

Biography

Saba Joshi is a Lecturer in Gender and Development in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC) at the University of York. Her research focuses on gender in international relations, land governance and agrarian change, with a geographical focus on South and Southeast Asia.

Prior to taking up her position in York in 2021, Saba was a Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development. She has also held visiting scholar positions at the Department of Food and Resource Economics and Nordic Institute of Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and the Centre for East and Southeast Asia, Lund University. 

Saba obtained her PhD in Political Science/International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in 2020. She also holds MA degrees in Politics and International Studies from IHEID and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and a BA in History from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.

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Dr Saba Joshi
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of York
YORK
YO10 5DD

saba.joshi@york.ac.uk