Ajailiu Niumai

Ajailiu Niumai is Professor of Sociology and former Head, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad (UoH) & Senior Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2023-25). She is the Assistant Director, Institute of Eminence (IoE), University of Hyderabad (2023-25). She has held several positions in her career of 24 years and has been associated with many universities in India and overseas. She is the Supervisory Panel Member of Ph.D Candidate at the Humanitarian Health Research Initiative, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Health & Medicine, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (2023 onwards). Her post-doctoral studies at the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa, USA in 2013-14 under UGC Raman Fellowship was a part of the INDO-US Knowledge Initiative. She is the First Fellow of CARTHA (NGO) in Iowa city, USA (2006). She is on the Board of Governors at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, Executive Council Member of the Central Tribal University of Andhra Pradesh and Advisory Committee Member/Board of Studies Member in various Universities. She has served Sociological Associations at the Regional, National and International levels in various capacities. She is the Asia Regional Representative of RC-32 Women, Gender and Society of International Sociological Society (2023-27). She is Member, Managing Committee of Indian Sociological Society (2020-2025) and former Convenor of RC-04 Migration & Diaspora Studies (2026-19) of Indian Sociological Society. She is the founder Secretary of Sociological Association of North Eastern India (2022 onwards).

She joined the Department of Sociology as Assistant Professor, UoH in 2000, and worked till 2009. She joined CSSEIP, UoH in 2009 and taught courses even at Centre for Women’s Studies as one of the pioneers and joint faculty, UoH (2007-2013). She has been working on Gender (women's sexual health, trafficking of women/children), Indian Diaspora, Migration, North East India studies, NGOs and development. She has chaired and delivered keynote addresses and plenary lectures in various Conferences/Seminars/Workshops in India and abroad. She has published articles in reputed journals like Economic & Political Weekly, Indian Journal of Gender Studies (Sage), Sociological Bulletin (Sage), Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage), The Eastern Anthropologist, International Anthropological Journal - Man in India and the like. She is a Guest Editor of the Special Volume on Gender and Social Exclusion, Journal of Social and Economic Development (2024), Springer Nature. Her books (with Prof. Abha Chauhan) includes Gender, Law and Social Transformation in India, Springer Nature, Germany/Singapore (2022) and (with Abha Chauhan & Tattwamasi Paltasingh) Hundreds Years of Sociology in India: Evolving Issues and Emerging Trends by Springer Nature, Germany/Singapore (2024).
Supervisors: Co-Supervisor/HRD Supervisory Panel Member of Ms.Tatum Rose Street, Ph.D Candidate, Humanitarian Health Research Initiative, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Health & Medicine, The Australian National University, Canberra, and Australia (2023 onwards).
Address: CSSEIP, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Prof. C.R.Rao road, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500046, Telangana, India.