ProfMeena Dhanda

Meena Dhanda is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics. She arrived in the UK from Indian Punjab 1987 with an award of a Commonwealth Scholarship for her doctoral work in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford University. She has taught and researched in philosophy at Wolverhampton from 1992. She is currently engaged in doing empirically informed social, moral and political philosophy, with a focus on casteism as a kind of racism. She is internationally recognised as a leading academic in the development of diaspora Dalit studies. To understand injustices, prejudices and misrepresentations suffered by powerless groups, she pursues transdisciplinary studies, specifically connecting caste, class, gender and race. She is interested in guiding research in social and political philosophy, ethics, cultural politics, identity, feminist philosophy, and theorists of anti-racism and anti-casteism in a comparative mode. Meena has led research funded by The Leverhulme Trust, Equality and Human Rights Commission UK, and the European Commission.