Shefali Jha teaches political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has taught courses in Western political thought both to undergraduate students at Miranda House, University of Delhi, and to postgraduate students at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She did her doctoral work on Hegel's concept of freedom at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her interests lie in the areas of political philosophy, feminist political theory, and constitutionalism and democracy.