Sumrin Kalia
Sumrin Kalia is a post-doctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin and fellow in ERC Project TAKHAYYUL, hosted at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. Her research examines civil society and political culture from a post-colonial, socio-historical perspective, focusing on processes of (de-)democratization from below. She completed her PhD in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin where she studied linkages between populist parties and civil society organizations. Her research uses comparative case studies to understand economic, socio-cultural, and institutional influences on civil society and political competition. Her scholarship aims to link Area studies literature with organizational analysis, institutional theory and political sociology. She is currently working on a book manuscript and a series of articles which explore populism in Pakistan.
