Anjali Thomas

Anjali Thomas is an Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the Nunn School Program in Global Development. She is also a 2024 Non-Resident Fellow at the Gothenburg Governance and Local Development Institute. Her research focuses on comparative politics and political economy, emphasizing India, with specialties in public service provision, distributive politics, gender disparities, and multi-level governance. Her work has been published in top journals like American Journal of Political Science and British Journal of Political Science.

Education: Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University (2010), B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Research Interests: Her research explores pathways to citizen access to services, state actors' influence on developmental attitudes, and electoral dynamics in India. Recent projects include field experiments on public service access and analyses of gender norms and voter attitudes in ethnically divided societies.

Awards and Fellowships:

• 2024 Non-Resident Fellow, Gothenburg Governance and Local Development Institute

Teaching: Courses include Global Development, Democracy in the Global South, and Political Economy of Development at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Labs/Teams: Leads the Nunn School Program in Global Development, focusing on interdisciplinary research in international development and governance.