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I am Professor of Comparative and South Asian Politics at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA), and Fellow of Wolfson College, the University of Oxford. I was previously Reader in International Politics at King's College London. 

I completed my B.A. in Political Science and Economics at Swarthmore, and then an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. My research focuses on the political economy of national development, populism and democratic contestation and state formation and political violence.

My first book, Development after Statism: Industrial Firms and the Political Economy of South Asia, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.  My second book, Patchwork States: the Historical Roots of Subnational Conflict and Competition in South Asia was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. My third book, Righteous Demagogues: Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond (coauthored with Pradeep Chhibber) was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.  

Please feel free to get in touch: a.naseemullah@wolfson.ox.ac.uk