Amit Ahuja to Join Faculty in Fall 2008

The Political Science Department announces the appointment of Amit Ahuja as Assistant Professor of Political Science, concluding a nation-wide search to fill a faculty position in comparative politics that brought in more than 120 applications.

Mr. Ahuja is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan. He is a specialist in South Asian politics whose research focuses on the politics of marginalized minorities--those who have been left out of social, political, and economic progress by virtue of their racial and ethnic characteristics, as well as their economic and religious status. His dissertation research specifically focuses on the Dalits (untouchables) of India, and how such groups become politically mobilized.