Prof. Ajailiu Niumai, Professor of Sociology and former Head, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Sage Journals ‘ANTYAJAA: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change’.
Prof. Ajailiu Niumai shall be responsible for the selection and revision of articles through peer review in accordance with Sage policies, processes and operational aspects, including the articles’ technical content, quality, form, conciseness, clarity and accuracy. She shall be responsible for the full peer review process using the Sage web-based or any supporting submission system. She shall also have final, overall responsibility for each issue, and supplements. She shall secure the assistance of associate editor, and advisory board. She shall be responsible, in consultation with Sage, for creation and maintenance of an editorial board. Prof. Niumai shall arrange for promotion and solicitation of articles for timely publication in the Journal.
ANTYAJAA: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change
This Journal is a peer reviewed and interdisciplinary journal that adheres to a rigorous double-anonymize reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. It aims to explore inequality and social change from the perspective of women at the margins who experience poverty, caste, race, ethnicity, and religious marginalization – all within the overarching experience of gender. The purpose of the Journal is to publish (in the English language) well-researched articles, interviews, oral histories, and essays that draw forth the plight of the marginalized women, which have been judged worthy of publication by appropriate specialists and accepted by the Editor on studies relating to aims and scope of the journal. It is a first-of-its-kind initiative where activism will meet academics; and the journal is expected to draw contributions from various disciplines like sociology, anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, political science, philosophy, development studies as well as law, and social work. This journal will publish bi-annually in June and December of each year.
About Prof. Ajailiu Niumai
Ajailiu Niumai is Professor of Sociology and former Head, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad (UoH) & Senior Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2023-25). She is the Assistant Director, Institute of Eminence (IoE), University of Hyderabad (2023-25). She was on Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa, USA under UGC Raman Fellowship in 2013-14. She is the First Fellow of CARTHA (NGO) in Iowa city, USA (2006). She has published articles on gender issues like trafficking of women/children, women’s sexual health, migration and Indian Diaspora, and NGOs and development in journals like Economic & Political Weekly, Indian Journal of Gender Studies (Sage), Sociological Bulletin (Sage), Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage), The Eastern Anthropologist, International Anthropological Journal – Man in India and the like. She is a Guest Editor of the Special Volume on Gender Inequality and Social Exclusion, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Springer Nature (2024). Her books (with Prof. Abha Chauhan) include Gender, Law and Social Transformation in India, Springer Nature, Singapore (2022) and (with Abha Chauhan & Tattwamasi Paltasingh) Hundreds of Years of Sociology in India: Evolving Issues, Emerging Trends by Springer Nature, Singapore (will be published in November 2024).
She has held several positions in her career of 24 years and has been associated with many universities in India and overseas. She is on the Board of Governors at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, Executive Council Member of the Central Tribal University of Andhra Pradesh and Advisory Committee Member/Board of Studies Member in various Universities. She has served Sociological Associations at the Regional, National and International levels in various capacities. She is the Asia Regional Representative of RC-32 Women, Gender and Society of International Sociological Society (2023-27), Spain. She is Member, Managing Committee of Indian Sociological Society (2020-2025) and former Convenor of RC-04 Migration & Diaspora Studies (2016-19) of the Indian Sociological Society. She is the founder Secretary of Sociological Association of North Eastern India (2022 onwards).