New Junior Professor: Nikita Dhawan
15 October 2008
Professor Dhawan accepts a position as a junior professor for gender and postcolonial studies within the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”. Her research interest is in political philosophy, transnational gender studies and postcolonial theory.
Nikita Dhawan, born in 1972, studied philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Mumbai as well as gender studies at the Research Centre for Women's Studies (RCWS) at SNDT Women's University Mumbai/India. Professor Dhawan received her doctorate in 2006 from Ruhr-Universität Bochum. After a guest professorship for women and gender studies at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg in winter semester 2006/07 she became junior research fellow at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Invited by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, she spent spring 2008 as visiting research scholar at Columbia University, New York.
