A.Suneetha is a Senior Fellow at and Coordinator of Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies. She is a political theorist who is invested in the questions of gender and minority. Her research interests include gender and violence, secularism and the Muslim woman’s question and Muslim politics in the Telugu region, more specifically of Hyderabad. She is part of the editorial team of bilingual Anveshi Broadsheet on Contemporary Politics. Along with M.A.Moid, she is working towards a book on Muslim politics. 
 
Completed Research Projects 
 
City and Sexuality: A Study of Youth Living and Working in Hyderabad, AJWS, 2016-2018
 
Post 1990 Muslims Politics in Hyderabad: Cross currents and Tensions, ICSSR,  2010-2013
 
Feminist Politics, Rights Discourse, the Family and Sexuality: Rethinking Women’s Suffering and Agency, Ford Foundation, 2007-2010
 
Institutional Responses to Domestic Violence, AEI Luxemburg, 2000- 2003
 
Member
 
Southern Regional Committee, Indian Association of Women’s Studies (2018-) 
 
Twelvth Plan Steering Committee on Minorities (2012) 
 
Education 
 
Ph.D (Political Science), University of Hyderabad on “Family, Gender and Power: A Study of Women and Violence in Families in Andhra Pradesh” (2000)
 
M.Phil (Political Science), University of Hyderabad on “Portrayal of Rape in Telugu Cinema” (1994) 
 
M.A (Political Science) University of Hyderabad (1990-1992)
 
Miscellaneous

Suneetha was a recipient of doctoral fellowships awarded by the Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, 1995, and by Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi, 1996-1998. She was one of the coordinators of the first South Indian Young Feminists Conference, ‘Listening Together, Talking Differences,’ organised by Anveshi and Hyderabad Women’s Collective in September 2001.

Publications  
 
Edited  Volumes 
 
Guest Editor Special Issue of Women’s Link, Gender, Religion and Democracy, Vol.25, April-June 2018
 
Cco-editor of Towards a World of Equals, a Bilingual Textbook on Gender Sensitization (2015) Telugu Academy, Hyderabad (with Susie Tharu)

 
Co-editor of Vegetarians Only, Stories of Telugu Muslims (2015) Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad (with Uma Bhrugubanda) 
 
Guest Editor Special Issue on Violence, Law and Feminist Politics, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol.17, No.3, Oct 2010 https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ijgb/17/3
 
Forthcoming 
 
A World of Equals, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi (Coedited with Susie Tharu and Uma Bhrugubanda) 
 
Research Articles 
 
  • Between Haquq and Taaleem: Muslim Women’s Activism in Contemporary Hyderabad, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII, No.34, Aug 25, 2012.
  • Towards Understanding Muslim Social Reform: Jamiat-ul-Mominath and Its Fatwas for Women in Flavia Agnes and Shobha Venkatesh Ghosh ed. Negotiating Spaces, Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Dealing with Domestic Violence: Towards Complicating the Rights Discourse (Coauthored with Vasudha Nagaraj), Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 17 (3), 2010.
  • ‘Conjugality and Violence: Notes from the Past and the Present.’ Indian Journal of Human Rights,Vol.3, Nos.1&2, 1999.
  • ‘State of Human Rights in the First World: Emerging Trends.’ (Coauthored with G.Haragopal) Quarterly Journal of the Institute for the Study of Developing Areas, Vol.8, No.1, Jan-March 1998. Co-author.
  • ‘Civil Liberties in the Making: A Case of Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee.’ Indian Journal of Human Rights, Vol.1, No.2, Jul-Dec 1997. Co-author.

Select blog publications 
 
In Tollywood, the bottom of the pyramid is leading the #metoo movement (with Vasudha Nagaraj, Tejaswini Madabushi and K.Sajaya) https://thewire.in/women/in-tollywood-the-bottom-of-the-pyramid-is-leading-the-metoo-movement
 
The List and the task of rearranging academic relationships (with Uma Bhrugubanda, Vasudha Nagaraj and Lakshmikutty) https://www.epw.in/engage/article/list-and-task-rearranging-academic-relationships
 
The real debate on triple talaq is happening within the Muslim Communities 
 
Secular Telugus and communal Muslims: The politics of razakar memory  
 
Read Suneetha’s Blog for her newspaper articles and blog entries in Telugu.
 
Her 2018 Balagopal Memorial Lecture can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoPK6Rs9TNk