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.
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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