Inshah Malik, nominated by Ashjan Ajour, is a scholar from Kashmir living and working in Georgia. She is an Associate Professor at New Vision University in Tbilisi. She has been a Fellow or invited visiting professor at Yale and other US universities.

She is nominated for her exceptional intellectual courage, scholarly excellence, and deep commitment to feminist justice under conditions of political repression and displacement.

As a political theorist and gender studies scholar from Kashmir whose Indian overseas citizenship was stripped as a direct consequence of her critical writing on Kashmir, her life and work embody the risks and costs of feminist and anti-colonial knowledge production in contexts of occupation, war, and authoritarianism. Her exile and prolonged separation from her family have profoundly shaped her scholarship on grief, sovereignty, violence, and feminist resistance.

Her monograph, Muslim Women, Agency, and Resistance Politics: The Case of Kashmir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019),  is a significant contribution to feminist political theory and postcolonial studies.

Beyond publications, Inshah plays an active role in feminist intellectual communities. She has a strong track record of contributions to feminist scholarship and inequality studies, alongside clear potential for continued impact. Her work aligns closely with the thematic priorities you outlined, including violence and war, revolution, trauma, activism, and community/solidarity.