Biography
Monika is a first-year PhD candidate at the Institute of Criminology (Faculty of Law). Her proposed work seeks to study the category of consent in rape law, in the colonial and postcolonial context of India, and the implications of basing the legal definition of rape on consent. She did her masters and MPhil from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and undergrad from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, India. Her research interests include feminist theory and politics; gender, sexual violence and law; political philosophy and political economy of the Indian state. Previously, she has been a Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Political Studies, JNU, and has also worked as a Research Consultant for Jagori (a New-Delhi-based feminist NGO) on several projects concerning gender-based violence in Delhi-NCR.
