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Uday Singh Mehta serves as Faculty Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), with prior teaching appointments at Princeton, Cornell, MIT, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Hull University, and Amherst College.
His academic foundation includes a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from Princeton University.
Mehta's research critically interrogates liberalism through the lenses of post-colonial theory and globalization, exposing tensions between liberal ideals of freedom and historical imperial practices. His scholarship reveals how liberal thought conceptualizes non-Western societies as backward, while drawing unexpected insights from Edmund Burke's critiques of colonialism. Current work centers on Gandhi's alternative vision of political rationality.
His publications demonstrate a consistent trajectory from early modern political philosophy to contemporary critiques of empire, spanning political theory, intellectual history, and post-colonial studies. Key works analyze Locke's epistemological foundations of liberalism and British liberal imperialism's philosophical contradictions.
Mehta's scholarly impact is recognized through:
- J. David Greenstone Book Award for Liberalism and Empire (2002)
- Carnegie Scholars Prize for exceptional creativity (2003)
While specific advising details remain unreported in source materials, his mentorship extends across multiple institutions over three decades, with research supported by major academic fellowships including the Carnegie Corporation award.
