Faculty

Sania Ismailee is Assistant Professor of Social Science at the School of Law. Her research interests are at the intersection of political philosophy, law, and religion. She is pursuing her PhD from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi). Her dissertation assesses academic discourses around the Uniform Civil Code Debate in India. She was a Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Researcher at Columbia University and a Commonwealth Split-Site Fellow at the University of Oxford. She has written on the Karnataka hijab controversy, comparing Ambedkar’s and Savarkar’s comments on Muslims, and published several book reviews on religion and political theory across journals and blogs. She has presented her work in several national and international forums. Currently, she is one of the editors for the Indian Philosophy Network Blog.

• Graduation In: BA (Hons.) in Philosophy
• Graduation From: Hindu College, University of Delhi
• Graduation Year: 2015

• Post Graduation In: MA in Philosophy
• Post Graduation From: Jawaharlal Nehru University, Graduated
• Post Graduation Year: 2017

• Doctorate In: PhD (Pursuing), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Doctorate From: IIT Delhi
• Doctorate Year: 2024

• 2024 (Forthcoming). “Contesting rational uniformity: Muslim women’s pious endeavour towards gender justice as a way of life,” in Affective Approaches to Justice as a Way of Life, edited by Michael Ure and Siby K George, Bloomsburry.
• “Polemical Encounters: Ambedkar and Savarkar on Muslim Performativity,” Performing Islam (Intellect Books), Volume 8, Numbers 1-2, December, pp. 107- 127(21) (SCOPUS Indexed).

• Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Researcher, Columbia University (2021-2022)
• Commonwealth Split-Site Fellow, University of Oxford (2021-2023)
• Sponsored Member, Academic Council of United Nations System (ACUNS) (2018-19)
• Institute Fellow, IIT Delhi (2017-2021)
• Award of Academic Excellence in Philosophy, Hindu College, University of Delhi (2015)