Ananya Sharma is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Ashoka University. She completed her Ph.D. in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research focuses on tracing the disciplinary history of International Relations through the great debates and analyzing the decline of utopian thought within the discipline. She is currently working on her first book project interrogating the sociology of knowledge production in IR through utopian world-making projects and failures. Her work has been published in International Studies, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), South Asian Survey and edited volumes including the Oxford Handbook on International Studies Pedagogy and Routledge Handbook of South Asia. She has also contributed to South Asian Voices, RSIS Commentary and The Interpreter.