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	'''Jacqueline Strimpel Bhabha''' (born 1951) is a British academic, and an attorney. She is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. lecturer in law at [[Harvard Law School]] and teaches public policy at [[Harvard Kennedy School]].<ref name=JB-H-P-01>{{cite web\|title=Bio of Jacqueline Bhabha\|url=~~http~~://dl.lib.brown.edu/riamco/xml2pdffiles/US-RPB-ms2010.041.pdf\|publisher=Dl.lib.brown.edu\|accessdate=20 August 2012}}</ref>		'''Jacqueline Strimpel Bhabha''' (born 1951) is a British academic, and an attorney. She is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. lecturer in law at [[Harvard Law School]] and teaches public policy at [[Harvard Kennedy School]].<ref name=JB-H-P-01>{{cite web\|title=Bio of Jacqueline Bhabha\|url=https://dl.lib.brown.edu/riamco/xml2pdffiles/US-RPB-ms2010.041.pdf\|publisher=Dl.lib.brown.edu\|accessdate=20 August 2012}}</ref>

	Her research and legal practice has focused on citizenship and rights of aliens, refugee law, trafficking, and smuggling. She is married to [[Homi K. Bhabha]], the critical theorist, and they have three children.		Her research and legal practice has focused on citizenship and rights of aliens, refugee law, trafficking, and smuggling. She is married to [[Homi K. Bhabha]], the critical theorist, and they have three children.
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	==Career==		==Career==
	Bhabha started her career as a human rights lawyer in London and at the [[European Court of Human Rights]] in [[Strasbourg]]. In 1997, Bhabha entered [[academia]] when she joined the [[University of Chicago]] as the Director of the Human Rights Program – an appointment she continued till 2001.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Bio at Harvard {{!}} Institute of Politics – Professor Jacqueline Bhabha\|url=http://www.iop.harvard.edu/professor-jacqueline-bhabha\|publisher=Iop.harvard.edu\|accessdate=20 August 2012}}</ref>		Bhabha started her career as a human rights lawyer in London and at the [[European Court of Human Rights]] in [[Strasbourg]]. In 1997, Bhabha entered academia when she joined the [[University of Chicago]] as the Director of the Human Rights Program – an appointment she continued till 2001.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Bio at Harvard {{!}} Institute of Politics – Professor Jacqueline Bhabha\|url=http://www.iop.harvard.edu/professor-jacqueline-bhabha\|publisher=Iop.harvard.edu\|accessdate=20 August 2012}}</ref>

	She later joined [[Harvard Law School]] and become a lecturer in law. She serves as the Director of Research at the Francois Bagnoud Xavier Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard, and the University Adviser on Human Rights Education to the [[Provost (education)\|Provost]] at [[Harvard University]]. She is also a lecturer on public policy at [[Harvard Kennedy School]].		She later joined [[Harvard Law School]] and become a lecturer in law. She serves as the Director of Research at the Francois Bagnoud Xavier Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard, and the University Adviser on Human Rights Education to the [[Provost (education)\|Provost]] at [[Harvard University]]. She is also a lecturer on public policy at [[Harvard Kennedy School]].

			In February 2022, Bhabha was one of 38 Harvard faculty to sign a letter to the [[Harvard Crimson]] defending Professor [[John Comaroff]], who had been found to have violated the university's sexual and professional conduct policies. The letter defended Comaroff as "an excellent colleague, advisor and committed university citizen" and expressed dismay over his being sanctioned by the university.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/2/4/comaroff-sanctions-open-letter/ \|title=38 Harvard Faculty Sign Open Letter Questioning Results of Misconduct Investigations into Prof. John Comaroff \| website=www.thecrimson.com \| publisher=The Harvard Crimson \| access-date=9 Feb 2022}}</ref> After students filed a lawsuit with detailed allegations of Comaroff's actions and the university's failure to respond, Bhabha was one of several signatories to say that she wished to retract her signature. <ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/08/metro/3-graduate-students-file-sexual-harassment-suit-against-prominent-harvard-anthropology-professor/ \|title=3 graduate students file sexual harassment suit against prominent Harvard anthropology professor \| website=www.bostonglobe.com \| publisher=The Boston Globe \| access-date=9 Feb 2022}}</ref>

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'''Jacqueline Strimpel Bhabha''' (born 1951) is a British academic, and an attorney. She is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. lecturer in law at [[Harvard Law School]] and teaches public policy at [[Harvard Kennedy School]].<ref name=JB-H-P-01>{{cite web|title=Bio of Jacqueline Bhabha|url=http://dl.lib.brown.edu/riamco/xml2pdffiles/US-RPB-ms2010.041.pdf|publisher=Dl.lib.brown.edu|accessdate=20 August 2012}}</ref>

Her research and legal practice has focused on citizenship and rights of aliens, refugee law, trafficking, and smuggling. She is married to [[Homi K. Bhabha]], the critical theorist, and they have three children.

==Early life and education==
Bhabha was born '''Jacqueline Strimpel''' in [[Mumbai]] in 1951, the daughter of Jewish refugee parents who had moved to India to flee [[Nazi Germany]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/05/jacqueline-bhabha.html |title=Jacqueline Bhabha |work=Harvard Magazine |date=12 July 2015 |accessdate=24 July 2015}}</ref> The family moved to [[Milan]], Italy in 1961 when she was ten years old.

She matriculated at [[Bedales]], a British boarding school. Bhabha received a first class [[honours degree]] in philosophy and [[psychology]] from [[Oxford University]] in 1973, and an MSc in applied social studies in 1975 at the [[Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford]]. Despite claims made on her Harvard biography page and in other media that she holds a JD, she does not have a doctoral degree. Bhabha completed the Common Professional Examination to qualify as a solicitor at what was then the [[University of Law|College of Law]] in London.

==Career==
Bhabha started her career as a human rights lawyer in London and at the [[European Court of Human Rights]] in [[Strasbourg]]. In 1997, Bhabha entered [[academia]] when she joined the [[University of Chicago]] as the Director of the Human Rights Program – an appointment she continued till 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bio at Harvard {{!}} Institute of Politics – Professor Jacqueline Bhabha|url=http://www.iop.harvard.edu/professor-jacqueline-bhabha|publisher=Iop.harvard.edu|accessdate=20 August 2012}}</ref>

She later joined [[Harvard Law School]] and become a lecturer in law. She serves as the Director of Research at the Francois Bagnoud Xavier Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard, and the University Adviser on Human Rights Education to the [[Provost (education)|Provost]] at [[Harvard University]]. She is also a lecturer on public policy at [[Harvard Kennedy School]].

==Publications==
*"Pertenecer a Europa: ciudadanía y derechos posnacionales"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org/issj/rics159/bhabhaspa.html |title=International Social Science Journal | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |publisher=UNESCO |accessdate=24 July 2015}}</ref>
*Co-author ''Women's Movement: Women Under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law'' (1994),
*Editor ''Asylum Law And Practice in Europe and North America'' (1992),
*Article ''Get Back to Where You Once Belonged: Identity, Citizenship and Exclusion in Europe'' Human Rights Quarterly (1998),
*Article ''Internationalist Gatekeepers? The tension between asylum advocacy and human rights''(2002),
*Article ''The Citizenship Deficit: On Being a Citizen Child'' (2003).
*Article ''Reforming Immigration Policy Boston'' Review (2005)
*Article ''Moving Babies: Globalization, Markets, and Transnational Adoption'' [[The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs]] (2004)

==Personal life==
She is married to [[Homi K. Bhabha]], the critical theorist.<ref>{{cite news|last=Eakin|first=Emily|title=Harvard's Prize Catch, a Delphic Postcolonialist|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/arts/harvard-s-prize-catch-a-delphic-postcolonialist.html|accessdate=3 May 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=17 November 2001}}</ref> They have three children: Ishan, [[Satya Bhabha|Satya]] (an actor), and Leah.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/jacqueline-bhabha Bhabha's Profile at Harvard Kennedy School]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050925034740/http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050549.html Profile Harvard Magazine]
* [http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0012/features/bhabha.html University of Chicago article]
* [https://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=407/ Jacqueline Bhabha Papers] – Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University

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