Nikita Dhawan holds the Chair in Political Theory and History of Ideas at the Technical University of Dresden. Her research, teaching and numerous publications focus on global justice, human rights, democracy and decolonization. She received the Käthe Leichter Award in 2017 for outstanding achievements in the pursuit of women’s and gender studies. She has been awarded the Gerda Henkel Visiting Professorship at Stanford University for the winter academic quarter 2023.

As of August 2022