Shreya Parikh is an affiliated doctor at CERI. At Sciences Po's Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and Collège universitaire, she teaches courses on race, migration, minoritization, and social movements in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region. She also serves as a member of the scientific council of the MENA Program.

Shreya Parikh received a Dual Ph.D. in political science from Sciences Po Paris and in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024. Her dissertation, titled ‘Mirages of Race: Blackness, Racialization, and the Black Movement in Tunisia,’ examines the intersections of race, migration, and citizenship in the production of Blackness in contemporary Tunisia. The dissertation is currently under embargo because of the Tunisian state surveillance and investigation against Shreya as well as Black activists interviewed as a part of the research.

Shreya’s research has been (or is soon to be) published in Meridians, MERIP’s Middle East Report, Plein Droit, Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and Revue Tumultes. Shreya’s research has been funded by international grants from Zeit Stiftung’s ‘Beyond Borders’ Program, the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), Noria Research, Global Religion Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, and Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Shreya regularly writes empirically-informed articles for journalistic media and has been interviewed by Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, and France Culture. Her essays have appeared in Africa is a Country, Nawaat (Tunisia), Jadaliyya, The Wire (India), and Dawn (Pakistan).

Shreya grew up in Ahmedabad (India). She undertook her undergraduate and master’s studies at Sciences Po as an Emile Boutmy scholar. As a part of her undergraduate studies, she spent a year at the American University of Beirut, prompting her interest in the study of migration and discrimination.