Rina Verma Williams Author

Rina Verma Williams is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, where she is also Affiliate Faculty in Asian Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She teaches and researches in the areas of gender and identity politics; religion, law, and nationalism; democracy and politics in developing countries; and South Asian and Indian politics. She has published extensively on these topics and is especially interested in the role of the state and democracy in the social and political construction of gendered identities. Her first book, Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws, examined how religious laws affected ethnic conflict in India.