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. His research focuses on contemporary politics in South Asia. He previously taught at James Madison College at Michigan State University, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, a visiting fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, a guest scholar at the Center for Cooperative Monitoring in Albuquerque, and a visiting scholar at the German Institute for International and Area Studies in Hamburg. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ganguly is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 20 books on South Asia. His most recent book with Manjeet S. Pardesi and William R. Thompson, is The Sino-Indian Rivalry: Implications for Global Order (Cambridge University Press, 2023) He is currently working on a new book that focuses on the origins and evolution of India’s defense policy for Columbia University Press.
