Dr. Kavita Daiya

Dr. Daiya is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as the former director (2018-2021) of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at GWU. She is the recipient of several honors. Most recently, she received The Award for Excellence in Graduate Faculty Mentoring in The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences in 2022. She was also selected as the CCAS Administrative Fellow (with a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in the Faculty Administrative Leadership Program (Fall 2021). In Spring 2021 she founded and now directs the Immigration and Migration Studies Micro-Minor in CCAS.

In the past, she has served as visiting NEH Chair in the Humanities at Albright College (2015-2016) and was the Andrew W. Mellon Regional Faculty Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Humanities Forum (2014-2015, 2012-2013). She is a former M.A. Program Director in the English Department (2010-2014). Professor Daiya also serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Global Women's Institute, the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, the Sustainability Program, and the Peace Studies Program. She was the Associate Editor (Book Reviews) of the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal South Asian Review (Taylor and Francis) from 2012-2018. She currently serves as an elected member of the Dean's Council.

Daiya has also been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, a Ford Foundation Research Fellow at The Globalization Project at the University of Chicago, and a Research Fellow at the Global Women's Institute at GWU.