Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya is a Professor of Political Science at the Banaras Hindu University. In her four decades long career, she served as the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chair, Department of Political Science and Director, Centre for the Study of Nepal and also an Adjunct Professor at Malaviya Centre for Peace Research.
She has done post-doctoral research at London School of Economics and Politics and Brown University and obtained an International Diploma from Uppsala University. In addition, Professor Upadhyaya has served as Scholar in Residence at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, and Director (Research) at the Institute of Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity (INCORE), UU/ United Nations University, NI, U.K. More recently she served as the foundational ICCR Chair at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu.
Professor Upadhyaya has published extensively both nationally and internationally on themes related to issues of self-determination, ethnicity, conflict, federalism, gender and development. She has taught and lectured on these issues widely at various universities in India and abroad, some of them being Concordia University, University of Toronto, Canada, Wellesley College CT, University of Maryland, MD, Stanford University, CI, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), University of Brisbane, Darwin University, Australia, Karlstad University, Stockholm University, University of Lund, Sweden, Air Force Academy, Silver Spring, USA, Freie University, University of Magdeburg, Germany, and European University at Cracow, Poland and Dublin City University, Ireland.
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