Friday, February 27, 2015
2 p.m.
MIT, Center for International Studies, Lucian Pye Conference Rm, E40-464, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
Amit Ahuja is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research concentrates on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in multiethnic societies, studied within the context of ethnic parties and movements, military organization, and inter-caste marriage in South Asia. He 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.
He has completed one book manuscript, Mobilizing Marginalized Citizens: Ethnic Parties and Ethnic Movements, and has a second book-length project currently in development called Building National Armies in Multiethnic States.