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Dipali Mukhopadhyay
International Affairs Building, Room 1329
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-851-9532
dm2917@columbia.edu
Biography:
Dipali Mukhopadhyay joined the SIPA faculty as an assistant professor in July 2012. She received her doctorate from Tufts University's Fletcher School in the fall of 2010 and spent 2011 as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University. She studies modern state formation in conflict and post-conflict settings. Her research interests lie, in particular, with the challenges weak political centers face as they attempt to grow their authority in the midst of formidable competitors. She is currently finishing a forthcoming book manuscript with Cambridge University Press entitled Warlords, Strongman Governors and State Building in Afghanistan. She has been conducting research in eastern and northern Afghanistan, as well as Kabul, since 2007 and made her first trip to the country for a project with the Aga Khan Development Network in 2004.
Mukhopadhyay teaches in the field of international security. This fall, she will teach a course on state formation, violence, and intervention in the modern world with a case study on Afghanistan. Next spring, she will teach a course on warlords, militiamen, and mafias and another on foreign intervention and conflict management.
Her research has been funded by the Carnegie Corporation, the Eisenhower Institute, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, Harvard Law School, and the US Department of Education. Her writings have been published academically as well as by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and US News & World Report. She has worked in consultation with the US Department of Defense, the Canadian government, the US military, and the World Bank.