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Ashutosh Varshney joined the faculty at Brown University in January 2009, after teaching at Harvard University from 1989 to 1998 and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2008. He has received several accolades including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Carnegie Scholar award in 2008. His notable publications include 'Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India', which won the Gregory Luebbert Prize from the American Political Science Association, and 'Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India', which was based on his PhD dissertation and won the Daniel Lerner Prize at MIT. Varshney's research and teaching focus on Political Economy, Development, Indian Politics, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. His academic work has been featured in prominent journals such as World Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, and Daedalus. Currently, he is researching the rising cities in India, North-South economic divergence, and leading a multi-country project on cities and ethnic conflict. Additionally, he has served as an adviser to institutions such as the World Bank and UNDP, and was a member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Millennium Task Force on Poverty from 2002 to 2005.
Department: Department of Economics