Professor Adnan Naseemullah
Professor of Comparative and South Asian Politics; Director, Centre for South Asian Studies
Wolfson College
Credit: Emily Hodges
Adnan Naseemullah is Professor of Comparative and South Asian Politics and Fellow of Wolfson College, the University of Oxford. He directs the Centre for South Asian Studies and teaches on the Modern South Asian Studies and Global Area Studies programmes at OSGA.
He completed his B.A. in Political Science and Economics at Swarthmore College, and then his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the political economy of national development, populism and democratic contestation and state formation and political violence.
His first book, Development after Statism: Industrial Firms and the Political Economy of South Asia, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. His second book, Patchwork States: the Historical Roots of Subnational Conflict and Competition in South Asia was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. His third book, Righteous Demagogues: Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond (coauthored with Pradeep Chhibber) was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.
He is currently working on research projects on the nature of ethnic violence in the context of social hierarchies, the operation of international rules of trade and investment, and the prospects of democracy in an age of increasing inequality.