Aleena Sebastian

Assistant Professor
E-mail
aleena.sebastian@nias.res.in
Department

Dr Aleena Sebastian is an Assistant Professor at NIAS, Bangalore. Before joining NIAS, she was postdoctoral Fellow in a DBT Wellcome Trust/India Alliance Senior Research Fellowship research project with The Humsafar Trust, Mumbai. Dr. Sebastian secured her doctoral degree from the Department of Sociology, the University of Hyderabad in October 2019. 

Her research interests include the following: Social anthropology in South Asia, kinship and gender (with special reference to the matrilineal Muslim communities), health and Social Policy (with special reference to sexual gender minority communities)