Ashutosh Varshney
| Ashutosh Varshney | |
|---|---|
| Awards |
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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[1] He has been a consultant to the World Bank and to the United Nations World Development program.
Selected publications
Books
- Varshney, Ashutosh (1993). Beyond urban bias. London, England Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass. ISBN 9780714645117. Based on a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies guest edited.
- Varshney, Ashutosh (1998). Democracy, development, and the countryside: urban-rural struggles in India. Cambridge England New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521646253. 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.
- Varshney, Ashutosh; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Bajpai, Nirupam (2000). India in the era of economic reforms. New Delhi Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195655292.
- Varshney, Ashutosh (2003). Ethnic conflict and civic life: Hindus and Muslims in India. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300100136.
- Varshney, Ashutosh (2004). India and the politics of developing countries: essays in memory of Myron Weiner. New Delhi Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9780761932888. Based in part on a special issue of Asian Survey.
- Varshney, Ashutosh; Herwitz, Daniel (2008). Midnight's diaspora: critical encounters with Salman Rushdie. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472050482.
- Reprinted as: Varshney, Ashutosh; Herwitz, Daniel (2009). Midnight's diaspora: critical encounters with Salman Rushdie. Delhi, India: Penguin Viking. ISBN 9780670083435.
- Varshney, Ashutosh (2010). Collective violence in Indonesia. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 9781588266873. Based in part on a special issue of the Journal of East Asian Studies, guest edited.
- Varshney, Ashutosh (2014). Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy. Penguin. ISBN 9780143423515.
Chapters in books
- Varshney, Ashutosh (2009), "Poverty and famines: an extension", in Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Kaushik, Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume II: Society, institutions and development, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 139–156, ISBN 9780199239979.
Journal articles
- Varshney, Ashutosh; Kanbur, Ravi; Beall, Jo (February 2011). "Ethnic diversity and ethnic strife. An interdisciplinary perspective". World Development. Elsevier. 39 (2): 147–158. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.034.