Dipin Kaur

Dipin Kaur is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Ashoka University, India. She received her PhD in Political Science from Yale University in 2022 and holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. During 2025-26, she was an India-US Security Studies Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security & Cooperation. 

Her research examines social identity and counterinsurgency strategy with a regional focus on South Asia and the British Empire. Her first book project investigates why states draw security forces from the same social bases as insurgent groups in some conflicts but rely on rival ethnic outgroups in others. In other projects, she focuses on post-conflict legacies and public opinion in polarized settings.