Priya Singh is Associate Director and Programme Coordinator at Asia in Global Affairs, Kolkata (AGA). She is currently a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Gender and Forced Displacement, Gender and Development Studies, Department of Development and Sustainability, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. Priya has a PhD from the Women’s Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta. Her thesis, Jewish and Democratic: Ethnicity, Gender and the Israeli State, mapped the intersectionality of nationalism, ethnicity, gender and marginality situated in a receding democratic space from a South Asian perspective. Priya did her master’s in political science at the University of Calcutta. Priya has been Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India (2002-2016). She has been a Researcher at the Calcutta Research Group, for a Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung project on ‘Asian Connectivity.’ (2017-2018). Priya is a political scientist with a linguistic understanding of some of the regions she covers. Her research encompasses issues pertaining to nationalism and post-nationalism, identity, state formation, ethnicity, gender, migration, marginalization, indigenous and minority communities, and linkages as well as disconnects in West Asia in particular, but also in a wider Asian context. Her research work has also been published in peer reviewed journals and as book chapters. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies andis a reviewer, for the Contemporary Review of the Middle East (SAGE, UK ). She has been a reviewer for the Routledge Series on Middle Eastern Studies as well the Routledge journal on cultural studies, Soccer and Society, and has contributed to national newspapers such as The Telegraph and The Statesman. She is an honorary member of the The Calcutta Research group.