Areas of Interest: ethnicity and nationalism; political economy of development; and South Asian politics and political economy.
Ashutosh Varshney, a professor of political science, is a faculty fellow at the Watson Institute.
His research currently centers on a multi-country project on cities and ethnic conflict, and on the rising North-South economic divergence in India.
In 2009-2010, he chaired Brown University's Year of India Committee, based at the Institute.
Prior to joining Brown, he taught at Harvard (1989-98) and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2001-2008). He was the 2008 winner of the Guggenheim fellowship and the Carnegie Scholar awards.
His biography is available here.