Dr. Itty AbrahamPrincipal Investigator
Itty Abraham is director of the South Asia Institute and Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include international relations, science and technology studies, and postcolonial theory. He is the author of The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State (1998), editor of the forthcoming Nuclear Power and Atomic Publics: Society and Culture in India and Pakistan, and co-editor of Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders and the other side of Globalization (2005), as well as numerous articles, book chapters and monographs. He is currently working on a book on the history of Indian foreign policy. Prior to his appointment at UT, Professor Abraham was a fellow at the East-West Center and program director for South Asia and Global Security and Cooperation at the Social Science Research Council (1992-2005).
