Nidah is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History at King's College, London. Her work involves using oral history and digital humanities methods to study the politics of health labour on the Wellcome funded project "The Digital Labour of Covid-19 Volunteerism: The Post-2000 Political History of Medical Infrastructures in India".

Nidah holds a doctorate in Politics and International Studies from SOAS, University of London. Her thesis examines how legal frameworks and security structures shape violence against minorities. Nidah also has an MSc in International Politics from SOAS and an MSc from King’s College London.

Research interests

• Politics of Digital labour

• Conflict and security

• Law and human rights

   

Publications

Journal Articles

• Kaiser, N. (2026) ‘From Victim to Perpetrator: Majoritarian Policing and the Inversion of Justice in Uttar Pradesh’, Asian Journal of Law and Society, 13(2), pp. 380–400 doi:10.1017/als.2026.10037.
  
  
• Kaiser, N. (2026). Anti-Muslim violence in India’s religious ethnocracy. Contemporary South Asia, 1–22 https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2026.2649748.
  
  
• Kaiser, N., Nielsen, K.B., Selvaraj, M.S., 2025. A deeper state? Anti-Christian violence in contemporary Chhattisgarh. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2025.2521914.
  
  
• Nidah Kaiser, ““New” Muslim Women and the Myth of “Love Jihad”: From Victims to Security Threats ”, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [Online], 32 | 2024, Online since 10 October 2024, connection on 17 April 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/9462; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/136kd
  
  
• Kaiser, N., ““New” Muslim Women and the Myth of “Love Jihad”: From Victims to Security Threats,” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [Online], 32 | 2024, Online since 10 October 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/136kd
  
  
• Kaiser, N. (2025). Vigilantism Trumps Justice: Uttar Pradesh Government’s Withdrawal of Charges in Akhlaq’s Lynching Case. Economic and Political Weekly, 60(49), 13-15. https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i49.47215
  
  
• Kaiser, N. (2025). Buried Rights and Grave Politics: The Supreme Court’s Dilemma between Religious Freedom and Public Order. Economic and Political Weekly, 60(47), 22-25. https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i47.43388

Media:

• Kaiser, N., and Pankaj T., Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and the ruling that turned dissent into terror, Frontline, May 2026.
  
  
• Kaiser, N., and Gurmat S., The recent bills governing identity, love, and marriage should worry us all., Frontline, April 2026
  
  
• Kaiser, N., and Maheshwari S., Policing Love: Law, Institutions and the Limits of Autonomy (Part 1 of 6), Oxford Human Rights Hub, 2025.

• Kaiser, N., The Intimate State: India’s Legal Turn Against Interfaith Relationships (Part 2 of 6), Oxford Human Rights Hub, 2025.

• Kaiser, N., Gurmat, S., “Fencing out interfaith relationships in new India”, The Hindu, Feb, 2025.

• Kaiser, N, “Hapur verdict, challenging vigilantism,” The Hindu, April, 2024.

• Kaiser, N, “Rajasthan lynching case: Cop vigilante, vigilante cops,” Indian Express, Feb, 2023.

• Kaiser, N., Jaffrelot, C., “Three years since anti-CAA protests: Law and lawlessness,” Indian Express,’ Jan, 2023

Courses Taught

• Contemporary Security Issues (2023-24; 2024-25)
• Introduction to Politics (2024-25)
• Political Islam (2022-23)