Dipin Kaur

Dipin Kaur is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Ashoka University, India. Her work is published in the American Journal of Political Science, Oxford Intersections, and Social Text. Dipin's research has been supported by the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University.

Dipin's research examines ethnicity and state strategy in the shadow of political violence, with a regional focus on South Asia and the British Empire. She is currently working on a book project that investigates why states employ coethnic security forces (those that share an ethnic identity with insurgents) as counterinsurgents in some conflicts, but rely on personnel from ethnic outgroups in others.

In her free time, Dipin loves traveling to new cities, usually with a camera in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other.