Somdeep Sen

Dr. Somdeep Sen is an Associate Professor in International Development Studies at the International Development Research Group, Roskilde University, Denmark. He joined as a postdoc in 2018 and was promoted in 2020. His academic roles include Research Associate at the University of Pretoria (2025-2028), Editor of Critical Studies on Security (2024-), Visiting Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (2023), and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at City University of New York (2022). His work spans academia, editorial boards, and international committees.

• PhD in Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2015)
• MA in Comparative Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2011)
• MA in International Relations and European Studies, Central European University (2009)
• BA in Political Science, St. Lawrence University (2007)

His research interrogates race and racism in International Relations, with a focus on liberation movements, spatial politics, settler colonialism, and postcolonial studies. He has published extensively on decolonial theory, including the monograph Decolonizing Palestine (Cornell UP, 2020) and co-edited Globalizing Collateral Language (UGA Press, 2021). Recent collaborative work examines urban disaster risk in India and global far-right alliances.

Scientific recognition includes a Global Development Studies Book Award Shortlist (2022). He contributes to public discourse in The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, and Jacobin, while serving on academic freedom committees for the International Studies Association and British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.