Dr. Anjali Thomas

Biography

Anjali Thomas is an Associate Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Director of the Nunn School Program in Global Development at Georgia Tech. Her academic expertise lies in comparative politics and political economy, with a strong emphasis on India. Her research is driven by substantive questions related to politics, public service provision, distributive politics, and multi-level governance. Professor Thomas has published her work in prestigious journals including the American Journal of Political Science and British Journal of Political Science, and her book was published with Cambridge University Press in 2016. She is currently involved in major projects that explore how citizens gain formalized access to services, with research funded by the National Science Foundation, focusing on the role of state actors in shaping citizens' pro-developmental attitudes and behaviors. Prior to her current position, she was a faculty member at the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she contributed significantly to her field after obtaining her Ph.D. from New York University in 2010.

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