Ashutosh Varshney

Ashutosh Varshney is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences, Professor of Political Science, and the Founding Director, Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia, Brown University, all at Brown University.  Previously, he taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His books include Battles Half Won: India’s Improbable Democracy, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India, Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India, India in the Era of Economic Reforms and Collective Violence in Indonesia. His honors include the Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships and the Gregory Luebbert and Daniel Lerner Prizes. His academic articles have appeared in leading professional journals of political science and development. He is a frequent columnist for newspapers and magazines, and editor-in-chief of the Modern South Asia Series, Oxford University Press, New York. He has also served as advisor to the World Bank and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).