Shreya Parikh

Shreya Parikh is a scholar of race in Middle East and Africa, studying its entanglements with citizenship, nation-building, and migration. Currently, she teaches at Collège universitaire and Paris School of International Affairs and is Associate Research Fellow at Center for International Studies (CERI).

In 2024, Shreya was awarded a Dual Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her book project - Mirages of Race: Blackness, Citizenship, and Migration in post-Revolutionary Tunisia – compares the trajectories and experiences of Black Tunisian citizens and Sub-Saharan migrants to develop the first grounded theory of Blackness in post-2011 Tunisia.

Shreya’s research has appeared in French and English in L’Année du Maghreb, Meridians, Middle East Report, POMEPS Studies, Review of African Political Economy, Revue Tumultes, and Jadaliyya. This research has been funded by generous grants and awards from Beyond Borders Program at Zeit Stiftung, Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb, Noria Research, Global Religion Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, as well as multiple internal grants from UNC and Sciences Po.

Shreya is committed to engaging in public-facing scholarship. She was awarded the Maynard Adams Fellowship in 2019-2020 for translating her scholarship into impactful public debates. Her interviews have appeared on Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Radio France, Africa Radio, and New Arab. Her essays have been published in Africa is a Country, Jacobin, and Libération.

Shreya grew up in Ahmedabad in India. She undertook her undergraduate and master’s studies at Sciences Po Paris as an Émile Boutmy Scholar. As a part of her undergraduate studies, she spent a year at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon – an experience that deeply shaped her curiosity about race-making and its impact on citizen-migrant boundaries.

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)

• Race, Migration, and Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa (graduate - Fall 2026, Fall 2025, Fall 2024)
• Revolutions and their Afterlives: The case of Middle East and North Africa (undergraduate - Fall 2026, Fall 2025, Fall 2024)
• Constructing and Contesting Gender in the North of Africa (graduate - Spring 2026)
• Minorities and Minoritization in Contemporary Middle East and North Africa (undergraduate - Spring 2026, Spring 2025, Spring 2024)
• Advanced Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences (undergraduate - Fall 2016)

Main publications

• Shreya Parikh. 2026. "Race, xenophobia, and populist authoritarianism: The case of violence against Sub-Saharan migrants in Kais Saied’s Tunisia." In The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in the Arab World. Ed. Dana El Kurd. Bloomsbury. p.332-346.
   
• Shreya Parikh. 2025. "La "loi populaire" comme mirage de la justice démocratique : médias sociaux, populisme et la production de la (in)justice en Tunisie." L’Année du Maghreb. 34.
   
• Shreya Parikh. 2025. "‘Too many Africans’: Racializing Urban Peripheries in the Face of Tunisia’s Economic Precarity." In Inequality and Mobility: Eroding Capabilities and Aspirations in PostRevolutionary Tunisia. Eds. Jörg Gertel and Katharina Grüneisl. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag. p. 221-232.
   
• Shreya Parikh. 2024. "Within and outside the Black-Maghrebi binary: A conversation with Maha Abdelhamid." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism. 23(2): 490-509.
   
• Shreya Parikh. 2024. "A la recherche du "ghetto" noir - race, classe et espace en Tunisie." Revue Tumultes. n.63: 109-125.
   
• Shreya Parikh. 2023. "Making Tunisia non-African again – Saied’s anti-Black campaign." Review of African Political Economy.
   
• Shreya Parikh. 2023. "Comment la Tunisie produit des "migrants irrèguliers."" Plein Droit n.139: 35-38.
   
• Shreya Parikh. 2023. "How Tunisia Produces "Irregular" Migrants." The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.
   
• Shreya Parikh. 2023. "In search of the Black "ghetto:" Racial and spatial stigma in Tunisia." Project on Middle East Political Science Studies 49: Urban Politics in the Middle East. p.73-80.

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