Zoya Hasan is an Indian academic and political scientist. Education and career She was Professor of Political Science and Dean of the School of Social Sciences (SSS) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She served as a member of the National Commission for Minorities from 2006 to 2009. She has been a Visiting Professor to the Universities of Zurich, Edinburgh, and Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, and held fellowships at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio, and Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. She has worked on research projects for the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ford Foundation, DFID, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and the Observer Research Foundation. Hasan's work has focussed on state, political parties, ethnicity, gender and minorities in India, and society in north India. She is better known for her path-breaking work on the politics of Uttar Pradesh. She has also done extensive research on social and educational aspects of Indian Muslims and Muslim women. Personal life Zoya Hasan was married to the Indian historian and former Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, Mushirul Hasan (1949-2018). References Living people 21st-century Indian Muslims Indian women political writers Academic staff of Jawaharlal Nehru University Indian political writers Scholars from Uttar Pradesh Indian women educational theorists 20th-century Indian educational theorists 20th-century Indian women writers 20th-century Indian non-fiction writers 21st-century Indian women writers 21st-century Indian non-fiction writers 21st-century Indian educational theorists English-language writers from India Women writers from Uttar Pradesh Women scientists from Uttar Pradesh Indian women scholars Year of birth missing (living people) Women educators from Uttar Pradesh Educators from Uttar Pradesh 20th-century women educators 21st-century women educators Centre for Political Studies (CPS), Jawaharlal Nehru University