About the Editors


Editor Sumit Ganguly holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University Bloomington. He is a member of Indiana's political science faculty as well as the director of the India Studies Program. Professor Ganguly was previously professor of Asian studies and government at the University of Texas at Austin, professor of political science at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and also taught at James Madison College at Michigan State University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London. Professor Ganguly has also been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, DC, and at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He has written extensively on ethnic conflict, inter-state war and foreign policy issues. His recent books include Fearful Symmetry: India and Pakistan in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons, Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947 and The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace; edited volumes include Understanding Contemporary India, India as an Emerging Power, and Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia. His latest book, India Since 1980, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He can be reached at sganguly-at-indiana.edu.

Managing Editor Christine Fair is a Senior Research Fellow for South Asia and Terrorism at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Prior to joining USIP, she was an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Fair's research focuses upon on a variety of political and military issues in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. She has authored The Counterterror Coalitions: Cooperation with Pakistan and India (2004) and Urban Battle Fields of South Asia: Lessons Learned from Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan (2004). She has also co-authored Fortifying Pakistan: The Role of U.S. Internal Security Assistance with Peter Chalk (2006) and Limited Conflicts Under the Nuclear Umbrella: Indian and Pakistani Lessons from the Kargil Crisis (2001) with Ashley J. Tellis. She is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London as well as a number of other professional organizations. She holds an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations as well as an MA from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. She can be reached at editor@indiareview.org.

Associate Editor Carole McGranahan is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado. Her research specialty is contemporary Tibetan culture, history, and politics, and she works with Tibetan communities throughout South Asia, from Kathmandu to Kalimpong, Delhi to Dharamsala. At the University of Colorado, she is co-coordinator of the South Asia Speaker Series, and is a director of the Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art. Her published articles can be found in Tibet Journal, the Journal of Cold War Studies, India Review, Les Cahiers d’Extreme-Asie, and she is currently finishing a book titled Truth, Fear, and Lies: Arrested Histories and, National Politics in the Tibetan Diaspora. Dr. McGranahan received her MA and PhD from the University of Michigan’s doctoral program in anthropology and history and her BA from Colgate University. She can be reached at carole.mcgranahan -at- colorado.edu.

Book Review Editor Elliot Sperling is associate professor and Chair of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. A specialist in Tibetan history and Sino-Tibetan relations he has taught Harvard University and Delhi University. He has published extensively in his areas of specialization and has been awarded Fulbright and MacArthur Fellowships. He has also served on the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad under Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. He can be reached at sperlin-at-indiana.edu.

Assistant Editor Leila Zakhirova is working towards a PhD in political science at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her fields of study are international relations and comparative politics with research interests focused on informal institutions and party formation in post-Soviet Central Asia. She has an MA in political science from Kansas State University and a BA in English and philosophy from Bethany College, Lindsborg. She can be reached at lzakhiro-at-indiana.edu.

Contributing Editor Alyssa Ayres is deputy director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. She was previously assistant director for South and Central Asia policy programs at the Asia Society in New York, and has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross on mission in Jammu & Kashmir. Dr. Ayres is co-editor, with Philip K. Oldenburg, of India Briefing: Takeoff at Last? (2005) as well as India Briefing: Quickening the Pace of Change (2002). She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, an honors graduate of Harvard College, and holds an MA and PhD from The University of Chicago. She can be reached at ayres-at-sas.upenn.edu.

Contributing Editor Jonah Blank is chief policy adviser on South Asian and Central Asian affairs for  the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (minority). His portfolio includes the region from Afghanistan to Indonesia, Sri Lanka to Kazakhstan. He also has responsibility for issues involving trans-national Islam. He is the author of two books, Arrow of The Blue-Skinned God, and Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras. Dr. Blank has done extensive field work in India and South Asia as a Fulbright scholar, and previously worked for U.S. News and World Report. He holds a doctorate in anthropology from Harvard University and a BA from Yale. He can be reached at jonah.blank-at-post.harvard.edu.

Contributing Editor Sunila S. Kale is a PhD candidate in the Government Department at University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation research examines the political economy of economic reform in India during the 1990s, focusing on restructuring and privatization of the electric utility industry. Her work on this subject will be published in a forthcoming issue of Pacific Affairs, and other work on Indian economic reform appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies. She completed a BA from The University of Chicago, and can be reached at kaless-at-mail.utexas.edu.

Contributing Editor Mira Kamdar is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society. A Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute since 1993, she founded the Institute's programs on Citizenship and Security and on Emerging Powers: Brazil, India, South Africa, and served as acting director from 1996 to 1997. She is a member of the editorial board of World Policy Journal. Her book Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Changing America and the World was published in India, the United States and the United Kingdom by Scribner in 2007, followed by publication in other language markets around the world. Her book Motiba's Tattoos was a 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and won the 2002 Washington Book Award. Dr. Kamdar is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and of the Council's Bilateral Task Force on India's Future and India-U.S. Relations. She writes frequently on international affairs topics for major U.S. and Indian publications and has gives expert commentary on India for various television and radio outlets. Dr. Kamdar received her PhD and MA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and her BA from Reed College. She can be reached via her web site.

Contributing Editor Dinshaw Mistry is associate professor of Political Science and director of Asian Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He specializes in international security and technology and politics. He has held fellowships at Harvard University and Stanford University. Dr. Mistry is author of Containing Missile Proliferation: Strategic Technology, Security Regimes, and International Cooperation in Arms Control. His other publications include "The Test Ban Treaty and India's Nuclear Breakout" and "Technological Containment" in the journal Security Studies; "Beyond the MTCR" in the journal International Security, "Diplomacy, Domestic Politics, and the US-India Nuclear Agreement," "The Geostrategic Implications of India’s Space Program” and "Diplomacy, Sanctions, and the U.S. Nonproliferation Dialogue with India and Pakistan" in the journal Asian Survey; and 'The Technology, Economics and Politics of Missile Defense" in the Northwestern Journal of International Affairs. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Illinois. He can be reached at dinshaw.mistry -at- uc.edu.

Contributing Editor Rahul Mukherji is associate professor in international relations and development at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has served as assistant research professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, and, has taught at Hunter College, City University of New York, and, the University of Vermont in Burlington. He has held fellowships at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Australian National University. He was a member of the core group of the Network on South Asian Politics and Political Economy, which was coordinated by the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan. Along with Bibek Debroy, Dr. Mukherji has co-edited India: The Political Economy of Reforms. His has published scholarly articles on the politics of economic liberalization in India, globalization and international taxation, and, on governance. Dr. Mukherji holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University. He obtianed his MA and MPhil in international politics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and his BA with honors in economics from Delhi University. He can be reached atrmukherji -at- mail.jnu.ac.in.

Associate Editor Arthur Rubinoff is professor of political science and South Asian studies at the University of Toronto, where he has taught since 1972. Previously he taught at Dartmouth College. He is the author of India’s Use of Force in Goa and The Construction of a Political Community: Integration and Identity in Goa. He is co-editor of International Conflict and Conflict Management and editor of Canada and the States of South Asia, Canada and South Asia: Issues and Opportunities, and Canada and South Asia: Political and Strategic Relations. He has written more than fifty articles on India’s foreign policy—including its relations with Canada, Israel, and the United States—and India’s political system—including its parliament, elections, state politics—and the role of legislators in foreign policy formulation for scholarly journals. Professor Rubinoff has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and most recently the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project on “Identity and Difference in India.” His current research is on the role of congress in the formulation of U.S. South Asian policy. Dr. Rubinoff received his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. He can be reached at arthur.rubinoff -at- utoronto.ca

Associate Editor Shyama Venkateswar is the executive director of Mercy Corps' World Hunger Action Center, an interactive museum to be located in New York City. She was previously director of the Asian Social Issues Program at the Asia Society. She has led conferences, policy briefings and produced reports related to reconstruction in Afghanistan, decentralization in Indonesia, peace building in Sri Lanka, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, and HIV/AIDS in Asia. She helped the Asia Society secure major endowment and program funding from Citigroup, the Gates Foundation, Open Society Institute, United States Institute of Peace, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, among others. Dr. Venkateswar serves on the Advisory Committee of Breakthrough, the Allocations Committee of New York Women's Foundation, and as an Academic Advisor for a National Geographic-Asia Society interactive atlas project. Prior to this, she was an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn College and a Program Officer at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. She received a PhD in political science at Columbia University and a BA cum laude from Smith College. She can be reached at shyamav-at-gmail.com

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