Dr. Priyanca Mathur is HOD and Professor at the Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Education (CeRSSE) JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bangalore. Her teaching and research specialisations lie at the intersection of politics, public policy, gender and forced migration studies. A gold-medalist in Political Science from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, she did her MA and M.Phil at the Centre for Political Studies, and Ph.D at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. A Commonwealth Scholarship enabled her to complete an M.Sc. in Forced Migration Studies at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK. She has been an international consultant with UNWomen and Forum of Federations, Canada, and a founding member of the Asia-Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN).
She is also on the Editorial Board of Refugee Law Reader, Hungary. She received JRF from UGC in Political Science, a fellowship from MCRG, Kolkata, to conduct research at Tampere University, Finland and the Schomberg Scholarship to teach at Mahwah College, New Jersey, USA. She has published numerous book chapters in volumes edited by Routledge, Springer and SAGE, along with op-ed articles in newspapers like Deccan Herald. Her recent publications are Forced Migration Trends in the Asia Pacific (Monash University, KL, 2022) and State of Research in Internal Displacement in Asia (Refugee Law Initiative, University of London, 2020). She has co-authored an edited volume titled Discovering New India: Multiculturalism, Pluralism, Harmony (JAIN University Press, 2022) and has an upcoming co-edited volume, Post Pandemic World Order: Issues and Challenges (Routledge).
