Sumit Ganguly | |
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Education | Berea College |
Alma mater | Miami University |
Known for | Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations |
Awards | Pravasi Bharatiya Samman |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Political science |
Institutions | Indiana University |
Thesis | (1984) |
Sumit Ganguly is an American political scientist. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution[1] and a professor of political science at Indiana University and currently holds that University's Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, focusing on comparative politics in South Asia.[2][3][4]
Ganguly completed his undergraduate degree at Berea College in 1977, his master's degree from Miami University in 1978, and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign in 1984.[4] Prior to being appointed at Indiana University, he taught at Michigan State University, Hunter College, Columbia University, and the University of Texas at Austin.[4]
Ganguly was a founding editor of the journals India Review and Asian Security.[5]