RekhaPande

Rekha Pande is a Professor of History and Women’s Studies. Her work is in the Inter disciplinary area of History and Women’s Studies. She is currently a Professor Emeritus at the Henry Martin Institute, an International Centre for Research, Interfaith Relations and Reconciliation, Hyderabad. She is also the Director of Society for Empowerment through Environment Development (SEED). She was earlier the Head of the Department of History and Head, Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Hyderabad. She was also the Director of Women’s Studies at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU). She has been the founding member of two Centres for Women’s Studies, one at Maulana Azad National Urdu University and the other at the University of Hyderabad. She was the Chair of the Women’s World Congress in 2014 organized for the first time in India. She has to her credit 25 books and more than 200 articles in National and International Journals, book chapters and proceedings. She has been the Editor of, International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), Rout ledge Taylor and Francis group, U.K. She also edited Foreign Policy Analysis, which is published by Blackwell, USA. She has received the Visiting Fellowship, Birkbeck Institute of Humanities, University of London, International Visiting Fellowship in the School of Policy Studies, in the University of Bristol, U.K. Academic Fellow, University of Buffalo, USA and International Visiting Scholar, at Maison De Research, Paris and Visiting Professorship at the University of Artois, Arras, France. She was invited as an Erudite Scholar for gender studies by the Government of Kerala in 2016. She was also nominated as the Peace Ambassador’ for the South Asia region, by the International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) Korea for the year 2016- 2018. She has been the Project Director of forty-two Projects. She has guided 24 Ph.D. and 46 M.Phil. students in both History and Gender Studies. She has been an assessor for NAAC and involved in the Accreditation and Evaluation of many Colleges and Universities across India. She has widely traveled in India and abroad to deliver Keynote addresses and lectures and present papers in National and International Conferences. She has been recently invited by the National Commission for Women, Government of India, to be its Resource person for Gender Sensitization and Gender development Programmes in India.