Dr Abhiruchi Ojha is an Assistant Professor at the MMAJ – Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. She completed her PhD in International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) where she was awarded the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Doctoral Fellowship. Her doctoral thesis was on the dynamics of gender and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa. She holds a Masters in Political Science from Jamia Millia Islamia. She was a visiting research fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Non-racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE), Kathmandu. She has previously taught at Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies (Jamia Millia Islamia), Department of Politics & Governance (Central University of Kashmir), Lady Shri Ram College for Women (University of Delhi), Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (Jamia Millia Islamia), and Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD).

Her research interests span International Politics and Gender Studies with a specific focus on women’s participation in politics, gender dynamics of conflict & peace, gendering Artificial Intelligence and developing non-western perspectives on International Relations. She combines her research and teaching with gender advocacy. She has been part of several research projects, including one on the impact of Dalit women in Indian politics for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada and the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS). Her publications include ‘Two Decades of Development: Gender and Citizenship in Democratic South Africa’, ‘Issues of Under-representation: Mapping Women in Indian Politics’ and ‘Women's Political Representation in the 16th Lok Sabha: Continuity, Contestation or Change’. She recently finished a project for National Commission for Women (NCW-India) on Domestic Violence in Kashmir. Her latest publication is an edited book ‘South Asian Women and International Relations’ from Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Singapore. Her publications have explored the linkages of gender, politics, and identity. She is presently working on examining the intersection of gender and technology, with a special focus on Artificial Intelligence.