Shreya Parikh studies study race and its entanglements with citizenship, nation-building, and migration using comparative and qualitative methods, primarily in the Middle East and Africa. She is Associate Researcher and Lecturer at Sciences Po. At Sciences Po's Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and Collège universitaire, she teaches courses on race, minoritization, and social movements focusing on the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region. She also serves as a member of the Scientific Council of the MENA Program and member of Africa Program.

Shreya was awarded a Dual Ph.D. in Political Science at Sciences Po Paris and in Sociology at 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 to propose the first grounded theory of Blackness in contemporary Tunisia. She is currently adapting this work into a book.

Shreya has previously taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, Parsons Paris-The New School, and Ecole Nationale d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme de Tunis. Shreya’s research has been published in Meridians, Middle East Report, Plein Droit, Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and Revue Tumultes. Her 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 in India. As an Émile Boutmy scholar, she undertook her undergraduate and master’s studies at Sciences Po. As a part of her undergraduate studies, she spent a year at the American University of Beirut - an experience that deeply shaped her curiosity about race-making and its impact on citizenship and migration.