Ashutosh Varshney is a political scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflict in South Asia. He is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Director of the Brown-India Initiative at Brown University where he is affiliated with the Watson Institute. Receiving his PhD from MIT in 1991, he taught at Harvard from 1989 to 1998 and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2008. In 2008 he won the Guggenheim fellowship and the Carnegie Scholar awards. He also served on the Millennium Task Force on Poverty of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2005.
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