Dr. Sen is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, RV University. Prior to this he taught at the Department of Political Science, St. Joseph’s University, Bengaluru. With a specialization in critical border studies, his doctoral research interrogates the logic of domestic-international linkages in the study of foreign policy, and engages with the ‘local’ as a counterpoise to statist essentialisms associated with processes of discerning interests and grounds for intervention in conflict settings. His field work involved navigating liminal zones, and engaging with borderland communities to understand the impacts of the state’s narrativization of conflicts and popular acuities on local lives and perceptions.

Dr. Sen’s broader research interests focus on inequalities and insecurities in post-conflict zones, informal negotiations and replications of formal institutions and proceduralism that steady local relations in the state’s absence. Besides this, he enjoys films, football and video games.

"Our search for the human takes us too far, too 'deep', we seek it in the clouds or in mysteries, whereas it is waiting for us, besieging us on all sides.” - Henri Lefebvre

• Shifting identities and variable experiences of statelessness in border enclaves
• Proxy-Citizenship and Limited Governance in stateless spaces
• Local adaptations to conditions of sovereign exclusion
• Inequalities and polarization as consequences of state mediation in local conflicts
• Assessing resilience and adaptability of communities residing in enclave locales
• Research Interests
• Critical Borderland Studies
• Borders and Identity in South Asia
• Local Conflicts and Resolution
• Post-conflict spaces