Sumit Ganguly is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington, where he holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations and previously directed the Center on American and Global Security. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. His academic career includes prior teaching appointments at James Madison College of Michigan State University, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and the University of Texas at Austin. Ganguly has held numerous distinguished visiting positions, such as Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC; Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law; Asia Chair at Sciences Po in Paris; Ngee Ann Chair in International Politics at the Rajaratnam School for International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore; Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis in New Delhi; Buffet Professor at Northwestern University (2013-2014); Visiting Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College (2017-2018); and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg (summer 2018).

A specialist on the contemporary politics of South Asia, Ganguly's research interests include international relations and world politics, comparative politics of South Asia and Southeast Asia, ethnopolitics, South Asian regional security, nuclear strategy and arms control, counterinsurgency, and counterterrorism. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of twenty books on the region. Key publications include Oxford Short Introduction to Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2015), Deadly Impasse: Indo-Pakistani Relations at the Dawn of a New Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Ascending India and Its State Capacity (with William R. Thompson, Yale University Press, 2017), and The Oxford Handbook of India’s National Security (co-edited with Nicolas Blarel and Manjeet Pardesi, Oxford University Press, 2018). He is currently completing a book on the origins and evolution of India’s defense policy for Columbia University Press. Ganguly serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Studies Review and on the editorial boards of Asian Security, Current History, Journal of Democracy, Foreign Policy Analysis, The India Review, The Nonproliferation Review, Pacific Affairs, and Security Studies. His honors include being a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professional Email: sganguly@indiana.edu