Dr. Behl completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles, where her training focused on Race, Ethnicity, Politics, and Comparative Politics. She was awarded a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Doctoral Fellowship at College of Wooster and a Riley Postdoctoral Fellowship at Colorado College. Her scholarship contributes to gender and politics, race and politics, and democracy and citizenship studies by deconstructing the gendered and raced nature of institutions; explaining the exclusion of certain gendered, raced, and sexualized bodies from these institutions; and asking how to transform these institutions to be more inclusive and democratic. Dr. Behl’s resarch is published in Space & Polity; Politics, Groups, and Identities; and Journal of Punjab Studies. She also serves on the editorial board of Politics, Groups, and Identities.