Shreya Parikh is a Dual Ph.D. candidate in political sociology at CERI-Sciences Po Paris and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Beyond Borders Ph.D. Fellow (2022-24) at Zeit-Stiftung. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis. Her dissertation research focuses on the constructions and contestations of race and racialization in Tunisia through a focus on the study of racialization of Black Tunisians and Sub-Saharan migrants. Shreya is interested in the study of race, borders, migration, and citizenship in North Africa and the diaspora. Parikh’s research has been funded by the Merian Center for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), Global Religion Research Initiative at the University of Notre Dame, Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, and internal grants from her institutions of affiliation. Her research has been published in MERIP’s Middle East Report, Review of African Political Economy, Jadaliyya, and IRMC’s Carnet; her essays have appeared in Nawaat (Tunisia), The Wire (India), and Dawn (Pakistan). Shreya grew up in Ahmedabad in India, and undertook her previous studies at Sciences Po Paris and the American University of Beirut.