Ashutosh Varshney

Ashutosh Varshney
Awards	2008 Guggenheim Fellowship 2008 Carnegie Scholar 2003 Gregory Luebbert Prize 1990 Daniel Lerner Prize
Academic background
Alma mater	MIT
Academic work
Main interests	Ethnic and religious conflict

Ashutosh Varshney is a political scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflict and in economic development in South Asia. He is Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International Studies and Social Sciences, and the Director of the Brown-India Initiative at Brown University where he is affiliated with the Watson Institute. Receiving his PhD from MIT in 1990, he taught at Harvard from 1989 to 1998 and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2008.

In 2008 he won the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Carnegie Scholar awards. Additionally, he won the Gregory Luebbert Prize for best book in Comparative Politics in 2003 and the Daniel Lerner Prize for best Ph.D dissertation in Political Science at MIT in 1990. He also served on the Millennium Task Force on Poverty for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2005. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and to the United Nations World Development program.

Selected publications

Books

• Based on a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies guest edited.
• Cambridge University Press, 1995; paperback edition, 1998. Winner of the Daniel Lerner Prize in its PhD dissertation form, MIT, 1990. Indian edition published by Foundation Books (Delhi) in 1996.
• Based in part on a special issue of Asian Survey.

Reprinted as:

• Based in part on a special issue of the Journal of East Asian Studies, guest edited.