Profile

Raphaëlle Khan is an Assistant Professor at the City College of New York- CUNY. She is also an Associate at the Harvard Asia Center.

Her work lies at the intersection of International History and International Relations. She focuses on the international politics of South Asia, both from a historical and a contemporary perspective, with particular interest in the role of decolonised states in shaping and contesting the world order in the 20th century, sovereignty and decolonization, and the foreign policy of emerging powers.

She has published in Modern Asian Studies, The International History Review, and The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. She has co-edited a volume titled Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2017) and has contributed to Human Rights, Empires, and Their Ends: The New History of Human Rights and Decolonization (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

She was previously the South Asia Research Fellow at Institut de Recherche Stratégique (IRSEM) in Paris and a Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania.

Raphaëlle holds a Ph.D. from King’s College London and a double Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris).