Mona Bhan

Mona Bhan is the Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies and associate professor of Anthropology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. At Maxwell school, she is the senior research associate at the South Asia Center and serves as the director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

Her extensive research work on Ladakh on questions of identity, development, militarization, and counterinsurgency has been published in numerous journals such as the ''Journal of Asian Studies'', ''Sociological Bulletin'', ''Contemporary South Asia'', and ''Cultural Anthropology''. Her book on Ladakh entitled ''Counterinsurgency, Democracy and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare?'' was published by Routledge in September 2013. She has also conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Kashmir, focusing on the relationship between violence, counterinsurgency, and environmental activism. Her current project examines the politics and contestations over water between India and Pakistan.

She previously worked at DePauw University, teaching courses on Wars and Militarism, Anthropology of Development, Ethnography of Gender in South Asia, Cosmopolitanism, and Environmental Anthropology. Provided by Wikipedia