Ananya Sharma is assistant professor of international relations (IR). Her principal areas of academic focus include IR theory, intellectual histories of the global south, disciplinary histories of IR, gender in IR, and more recently the implications of utopianism in the discipline of IR. Several of her research articles have been published in edited volumes and conference proceedings. Ananya earned a PhD from the Centre for International Relations, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, JNU.