Department of Development Studies

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Roles: Department of Development Studies Professorial Research Associate
Department: Department of Development Studies
Email address: jh104@soas.ac.uk

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Professor John Harriss has a long history of research in and on India, particularly in Tamil Nadu, and is currently working both on a book on Indian rural society and on a new edition of India Today: Economy, Politics and Society, with co-authors Stuart Corbridge and Craig Jeffrey. With Olle Tornquist, of the University of Oslo, he is the editor of Reinventing Social Democratic Development: insights from India and Scandinavian comparisons (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2016) – the fruit of a collective project with Indian and Scandinavian scholars. He was once Dean

of the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia; later Director of the (then) Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics; and most recently the founding Director of the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He served as President of the Development Studies Association in 1996-98, as a managing editor of the Journal of Development Studies (1998-2004); and as Editor-in- Chief of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (2010-14).