Dr. Rudabeh Shahid is an Advisor at the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. She is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the South Asia Center of the Washington DC-based Atlantic Council, where her portfolio includes ethnic and migration issues in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and North-eastern India. Additionally, Dr. Shahid is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics, University of York (UK), from where she will be transitioning soon to a new role at the New College of Florida (USA). Over the years, her research has focused on civil society in post-partition South Asia and wider international relations of the region, including the situation concerning the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis and issues of statelessness developing in India’s north-eastern state of Assam.
In 2019, Dr. Shahid defended her PhD at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University (UK). She also holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Sussex (UK) and a BA from Middlebury College (USA). Dr. Shahid’s research interests are broadly on South Asia’s conflicts and ethnic identities, citizenship concerns, minority issues, refugee communities, and statelessness. Her work has been featured in media outlets such as NBC News, PBS Newshour Weekend, NowThis News, the Diplomat, the Globe Post, and East Asia Forum.
