Shubh Mathur
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Caste Discrimination/Persecution
- Deportees/Criminal Deportees
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Forced Marriage
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Journalist Persecution
- Political Persecution
- Prison Conditions
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Shubh Mathur
Shubh Mathur is an independent researcher with expertise on nationalism, minorities, borderlands, counterinsurgency, sovereignty, human rights, comparative federalism, and environmental ethics. She has conducted fieldwork in India and Kashmir, focusing on state and state-supported violence, and in the United States with asylum seekers who are victims of torture and other human rights abuses by state and non-state actors. Her latest research looks at the history of Indian state violence against religious and ethnic minority groups.
She is the author of several books and numerous articles, and has co-edited a volume on Kashmir after 2019. Mathur has served as peer reviewer for manuscripts on nationalism and minorities in South Asia and the Middle East for academic publishers.
