Political Science Faculty

Sunil Sahu

Sahu

Ph.D. (University of Chicago)

Frank L. Hall Professor of Political Science

Department Chair
103 Asbury Hall
Phone: (765) 658-4801
E-mail: sahus@depauw.edu

Homepage: see attached

Sunil Sahu, Professor of Political Science, has been a member of the Department of Political Science since 1988. A naturalized citizen of the United States, Sahu is a native of India.  He received his Bachelor's degree in Political Science (honors) and History from Bihar University in India, his Master's degrees in Political Science from Bihar University and the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

Before starting his Ph.D. program he received advanced graduate training in International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. His teachers at the University of Chicago included Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph, Philip Schmitter, Leonard Binder, Adam Przeworski, Tang Tsou in comparative politics, and Charles Lipson and Morton Kaplan in international relations. 

Sunil Sahu is the department's specialist in Comparative Politics, Politics of Developing Nations (including China and India), and International Politics/International Political Economy.  He offers a number of courses at introductory, intermediate and advanced levels: Comparative Politics and Government (POLS 150, a required course for political science majors and minors), Introduction to Government and Politics (POLS 170), International Politics (POLS 270, required of political science majors),  Contemporary Political Ideologies (POLS  240), China and India in the 21st Century (POLS 253), Politics of Developing Nations (POLS 352), International Terrorism (POLS 390), and Conflict and Cooperation in the Post-Cold War World (POLS 450, offered
periodically as a senior seminar course).

Sahu is the author of the book Technology Transfer, Dependence and Self-Reliant Development in the Third World: The Machine-Tool and Pharmaceutical Industries in India (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998) and book chapters "Religion and Politics in India: The Rise of Hindu Nationalism and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India," in Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective:  The One, the Few, and the Many, edited by Ted Jelen and Clyde Wilcox (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and "Changing Regimes in Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property in India," in C. Steven LaRue (ed.), The India Handbook (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and reference books and encyclopedias. He is currently working on a book titled Democracy in the Third World: Why it has succeeded in India and failed in Nigeria and a monograph on Nuclear Security in South Asia. During a sabbatical leave in 2003, Sahu conducted field research in India where he interviewed India's top nuclear and missile scientists, including President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

Sahu is married and has two children and lives in Avon with his family. He is a member of two Indian religious and cultural organizations in greater Indianapolis--Gita Mandal and Sikh Satsang. He is a political "news junkie" and his hobbies include photography and Bollywood oldies--films and songs. 

Spring 2008

  • Pols 352 Politics in Developing Nations
  • Pols 450 Senior Seminar

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

Fall 2006

  • Pols 150A - Comparative Politics and Government
  • Pols 150B - Comparative Politics and Government

Fall 2005

Spring 2006

Fall  2004

Spring 2005  

  • Pols 253        China & India in the 21st Century
  • Pols 270        International Politics
  • Pols 390b      Topics: International Terrorism