BIO-DATA

Maya Chadda is professor of political science at William Paterson University of New Jersey and a research fellow at the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University. She has taught in the past at the Brooklyn College and the New York University. Chadda holds an M.A. in Government from NYU and a Ph. D. From the Graduate Faculty, The New School of Social Research. Her publications include Indo-Soviet Relations (Bombay, Vora & Co.); Paradox of Power: The United States Policy in Southwest Asia (Santa Barbara, California, Clio Press); Ethnicity Security and Separatism in South Asia ( New York, Columbia University press/Oxford University press) and Building Democracy in South Asia: India, Pakistan and Nepal (Lynne Rienner Publishers, June 2000; India edition, Sage Publications, August 2000). Maya Chadda has worked as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) United Nations Family Planning Agency (UNFPA). In 1998 she was appointed as the Director of Undergraduate Research for William Paterson University responsible for setting up grant and scholarship program and has served on the review board of the United States Institute of Peace, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the prestigious think tanks in Washington D. C. Chadda is a recipient of many prestigious grants, the most recent among these is the Rockefeller Residency Fellowship at Bellagio, Italy. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the U. S. corresponding editor for Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Maya Chadda won the 1998 Excelsior award for excellence in academic achievement given by the Association of Indians in America and the Network of Indian Professionals.