Shreya Parikh is an affiliated doctor at CERI. At Sciences Po's Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and Collège universitaire, she teaches courses on race, migration, minoritization, and social movements in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region. She also serves as a member of the scientific council of the MENA Program.

Shreya Parikh received a Dual Ph.D. in political science from Sciences Po Paris and in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024. Her dissertation, titled ‘Mirages of Race: Blackness, Racialization, and the Black Movement in Tunisia,’ examines the intersections of race, migration, and citizenship in the production of Blackness in contemporary Tunisia. The dissertation is currently under embargo because of the Tunisian state surveillance and investigation against Shreya as well as Black activists interviewed as a part of the research.

Shreya’s research has been (or is soon to be) published in Meridians, MERIP’s Middle East Report, Plein Droit, Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and Revue Tumultes. Shreya’s research has been funded by international grants from Zeit Stiftung’s ‘Beyond Borders’ Program, the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), Noria Research, Global Religion Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, and Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Shreya regularly writes empirically-informed articles for journalistic media and has been interviewed by Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, and France Culture. Her essays have appeared in Africa is a Country, Nawaat (Tunisia), Jadaliyya, The Wire (India), and Dawn (Pakistan).

Shreya grew up in Ahmedabad (India). She undertook her undergraduate and master’s studies at Sciences Po as an Emile Boutmy scholar. As a part of her undergraduate studies, she spent a year at the American University of Beirut, prompting her interest in the study of migration and discrimination.

Monograph based on dissertation research titled dissertation titled "Mirages of Race: Blackness, Racialization, and the Black Movement in Tunisia" Directeur(s) de thèse / thesis director

Race and Racialization in North Africa: The case of Blackness in "Arab" Tunisia, sous la direction de Daniel Sabbagh et Charles Kurzman (Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Revolutions and their afterlives: The case of Middle East and North Africa, Sciences Po - Undergraduate College (Paris Campus)
• Race, migration, and citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa, Sciences Po - PSIA
• Minorities and minoritization in contemporary Middle East and North Africa, Sciences Po - Undergraduate College (Paris Campus)
• Introduction to Sociology, Sciences Po - Undergraduate College (Reims Campus)
• Advanced Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences, Sciences Po - Undergraduate College (Poitiers Campus)

• Shreya Parikh. ‘Too many Africans’: Racializing Urban Peripheries in the Face of Tunisia’s Economic Precarity. Jörg Gertel, Katharina Grüneisl (Eds.). Inequality and Mobility. Capabilities and Aspirations in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia, Transcript Verlag, pp.221-232, 2025, 978-3-8376-6745-5. ⟨hal-05233838⟩
• Shreya Parikh. In search of Saadia. 2025. ⟨hal-05035984⟩
• Shreya Parikh. A la recherche du « ghetto » noir. Race, classe et espace en Tunisie. Tumultes, 2024, 63, pp.109-125. ⟨hal-05005507⟩
• Shreya Parikh. Within and Outside the Black-Maghrebi Binary. Meridians, 2024, 23 (2), pp.490-509. ⟨10.1215/15366936-11266436⟩. ⟨hal-04778644⟩
• Shreya Parikh. Saadia Mosbah, Black Tunisian Activist, Arrested on 6 May 2024. 2024. ⟨hal-04636358⟩
• Shreya Parikh. Comment la Tunisie produit des « migrants irréguliers ». Plein Droit, 2024, 2023/4 (n° 139), pp.35-38. ⟨10.3917/pld.139.0039⟩. ⟨hal-04449598⟩
• Shreya Parikh. In Search of the Black “Ghetto:” Racial and Spatial Stigma in Tunisia. POMEPS Studies, 2023, Urban Politics in the Middle East (49), pp.73-80. ⟨hal-04228685⟩
• Shreya Parikh. How Tunisia Produces “Irregular” Migrants. 2023. ⟨hal-04128146⟩
• Shreya Parikh. Remembering Jamila Debbech Ksiksi—An Interview with the Late Tunisian Lawmaker and Anti-Racist Activist. 2023. ⟨hal-04121234⟩
• Shreya Parikh. Making Tunisia non-African again – Saied’s anti-Black campaign. Review of African Political Economy, 2023, en ligne. ⟨hal-04012364⟩
• Shreya Parikh. Being excess bodies: Shame in the age of climate coloniality. Review of African Political Economy, 2022, en ligne. ⟨hal-03870168⟩
• Shreya Parikh. Fieldnotes from Bhar Lazreg: Research Methods from the Margins of Tunis. Jadaliyya, 2022, en ligne. ⟨hal-03869820⟩
• Shreya Parikh. The Limits of Confronting Racial Discrimination in Tunisia with Law 50. Middle East report, 2021, Race—Legacies and Challenges, Summer 2021 (299). ⟨hal-03384138⟩