Professor Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya

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Professor Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya is one of India's most eminent scholars in Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, and South Asian Studies.

She served at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) as Senior Professor of Political Science, Head of the Department, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Director of the Centre for Nepal Studies. She currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Peace Studies at MIT World Peace University, Pune, and Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). She is also a nominated member of the Academic Council of Nalanda University. An internationally acclaimed academic, her fellowships include:

Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University, Scholar-in-Residence at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington, D.C., Fulbright Professor at Wellesley College, Research Director at UNU-INCORE (UK), and Postdoctoral Research at LSE, London. She has held ICCR Chairs at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu and Dublin City University, Ireland, and taught at Concordia University (Canada), Karlstad University (Sweden), and Dublin City University.

She has led major international research projects funded by EU FP7, Marie Curie Global India Network, Research Council of Norway and PRIO, focusing on democracy, gender, peace and conflict, and South Asian politics.

Professor Upadhyaya has published extensively with Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Manchester University Press and Macmillan. Her recent books include Women's Empowerment in India: From Rights to Agency (Routledge, 2024) and Food Governance in India (Routledge, 2023).

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