Neel Ahuja is Professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, located on Piscataway lands. Neel’s research explores the relationship of the body to the geopolitical, environmental, and public health contexts of colonial governance, warfare, and security.

Neel is the author of two books, Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species (2016) and Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century (2021). Neel co-edits the journal Critical Ethnic Studies.

Neel was previously Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.