Dr. Neha Vora is an ethnographer with a focus on multidisciplinary and transnational projects that generate human insights.

Her teaching and research interests include diasporas and migration, citizenship, globalised higher education, gender, liberalism, political economy, and human-nonhuman encounters, primarily in the Arabian Peninsula region. Prior to taking up the position in Sharjah, she was a Professor in Anthropology at Lafayette College in the USA.

Dr. Vora’s current research project approaches Dubai and other UAE cities as sites of entangled uncertainties between humans and nonhumans, paying particular attention to informal stray cat care by immigrants and the place-making practices of cats themselves.