Zoya Hasan

Zoya Hasan was born on 7 August 1947 in Lucknow. She studied at Aligarh Muslim University and earned a doctorate in political science from Pennsylvania State University.^[1] She was Professor of Political Science and Dean of the School of Social Sciences (SSS) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a member of the National Commission for Minorities from 2006 to 2009.^[2] She has been a Visiting Professor at the Zurich, Edinburgh, and Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, and held fellowships at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Bellagio Center, and Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. She has worked on research projects for the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ford Foundation, DFID, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and the Observer Research Foundation.

Hasan's work has focused on the state, political parties, ethnicity, gender, and minorities in India, and society in North India. She is known for her work on the politics of Uttar Pradesh.^[3][4]

She has also conducted extensive research on the social and educational aspects of Indian Muslims and Muslim women.^{[citation needed]}