Sumit Ganguly

About

Sumit Ganguly is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of its Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations. He is also the Rabindranath Tagore Professor in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Emeritus, at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he served as distinguished professor and professor of political science and directed programs on India studies and on American and global security. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, Hunter College, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and James Madison College of Michigan State University. He has also taught at Columbia University, Sciences Po (Paris, France), the US Army War College, the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Northwestern University, and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He serves on the board of directors of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

His honors include a Humboldt Research Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany), the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award (government of India), the Medal of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), distinguished alumnus of Berea College, and distinguished alumnus of the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been a fellow and a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC); a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (both at Stanford University); a visiting fellow at the German Institute of International and Area Studies (Hamburg); a distinguished visiting fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis (New Delhi); the Asia Chair (research) at Sciences Po (Paris); and a visiting fellow at the Cooperative Monitoring Center (Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico). His research and writing focused on South Asia have been supported by grants from the Asia Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, the US departments of State and Defense, and the United States Institute of Peace.

Dr. Ganguly is co-editor in chief of the International Studies Review and serves on the editorial boards of International Security, the Journal of Democracy, Foreign Policy Analysis, Asian Security, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Pacific Affairs, Modern Asian Studies, the International Journal of Development and Conflict, the India Review, the Nonproliferation Review, the Washington Quarterly, and Current History. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy and the founding editor of the India Review, Asian Security, and Indian Politics and Policy. Previously, he has been an associate editor at International Security and International Studies Quarterly and a contributing editor at Asian Affairs. Ganguly is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Deadly Impasse: Indo-Pakistani Relations at the Dawn of a New Century (2016); The Oxford Short Introduction to Indian Foreign Policy (2018, 2015); How Rivalries End (2013, coauthored with William R. Thompson and Karen Rasler), which won the J. David Singer Award from the International Studies Association; The Crisis in Kashmir (1999, 1997); Fearful Symmetry: India and Pakistan under the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons (2005, coauthored with Devin Hagerty); The Sino-Indian Rivalry (2023, co-edited with Manjeet S. Pardesi and William R. Thompson); Understanding Contemporary India (3rd edition 2021, co-edited with Neil Devotta); The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics (2024, co-edited with Eswaran Sridharan); and, most recently, The Troubling State of India’s Democracy (2024, co-edited with Larry Diamond and Dinsha Mistree).