Aligarh: Dr Asiya Islam, an alumna of Women’s College at Aligarh Muslim University, has been appointed Assistant Professor permanently at the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science in London.

Dr Islam completed a BA (Hons) in Communicative English at Women’s College in 2009 with top marks in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and was awarded the Zakir Hussain Medal for Academic Excellence.

As an option in her undergraduate studies at the Women’s College, she chose Women’s Studies as a subsidiary subject and was closely involved in academic activities at the Centre for Women’s Studies.

Later, she completed her Masters in Gender, Media and Culture with distinction at the London School of Economics where she was awarded the Best Degree Performance Award. She then went on to pursue PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge on the prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship.

After her appointments as a Fellow of the Newnham College, University of Cambridge, and a Lecturer at the University of Leeds, Dr Islam has now taken up the role of Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics. With this, she has become the first graduate of the AMU to have been appointed as an Assistant Professor at world-renowned and prestigious LSE.

AMU Vice Chancellor Prof Naima Khatoon has congratulated Dr Islam on her achievement, adding that her appointment at LSE will encourage our students to pursue higher studies abroad and work hard to make an academic career in prestigious foreign universities.