Kanchan Chandra (born 20 January 1971) is a

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who is currently Professor of Politics at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

. She has made significant research contributions on a range of subjects in political science including comparative ethnic politics,

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, democratic theory, intrastate conflict, patronage and clientelism, and South Asian politics. Chandra graduated from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

in 1993, and earned a Ph.D. degree from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 2000. She was a faculty member in the political science department at MIT from 2000 to 2005 before joining the NYU Politics Department in 2005. Chandra is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been ...

Russell Sage Foundation The Russell Sage Foundation is an American non-profit organisation established by Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” It was named after her recently deceased husband, rail ...

, and SSRC-MacArthur Foundation. Chandra is the author of three books, as well as numerous academic articles. Her first book ''Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Headcounts in India,'' was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004 and has since been very widely cited. She is also the lead author of ''Constructivist Theories of Ethnic Politics'': 2012 (2012) and ''Democratic Dynasties: State, Party and Family Politics in India'' (2016).

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