Inshah Malik is a political theorist and a Gender studies scholar specializing in issues of sovereignty, war, violence, political cultures, grief, and mourning in Feminist movements.

She received a doctoral degree from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She is a former Fox Fellow at Yale University, USA, and there also served as an invited visiting professor at many other US universities, including Northwestern University and the University of Washington.

Very recently she worked as an assistant professor of International Relations and Political Theory in Afghanistan. In 2022, she was a visiting scholar at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.