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Karuna Mantena is Associate Professor of Political Science. She holds a BSc(Econ) in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1995), an MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex (1996), and a PhD in Government from Harvard University (2004).<\/p>\n
Her research interests include modern political thought, modern social theory, the theory and history of empire, and South Asian politics and history.\u00a0 Her first book,\u00a0Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism<\/em>\u00a0(2010), analyzed the transformation of nineteenth-century British imperial ideology.\u00a0 Her current work focuses on political realism and the political thought of M.K. Gandhi.<\/p>\n Since 2011, Karuna Mantena has been serving as co-director of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought.\u00a0 And she is also currently the Chair of the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University.<\/p>\n This fall she is offering an undergraduate lecture course on \u201cGandhi, King, and the Politics of Nonviolence\u201d and an introductory seminar in South Asian Studies.\u00a0 In the spring, she will be teaching seminars in \u201cAdvanced Topics in Modern Political Philosophy\u201d and \u201dIndian Political Thought.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Karuna Mantena is Associate Professor of Political Science. She holds a BSc(Econ) in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1995), an MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex (1996), and a PhD in… Continue Reading