Sunil Sahu

He was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, in a politically active family—his father, a grandfather and two uncles were involved in India's freedom movement.

College in Muzaffarpur, where he was influenced by the faculty who carried on the legacy of nationalist leaders who had taught at that college a generation earlier, such as Dr. Rajendra Prasad, India's first President (1950–62), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, a Hindi nationalist poet, and J.B. Kripalani, President of Indian National Congress at the time of the country's independence in 1947.

His teachers at the University of Chicago included Lloyd Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (President of American Political Science Association 2003-04), Philip Schmitter, Leonard Binder, Adam Przeworski, and Tang Tsou, as well as Bernard Silberman in comparative politics and Charles Lipson and Morton A. Kaplan in international relations.

Distinguished Career Award in recognition of his contributions to DePauw through a commitment to students, teaching excellence, and University service.

He recently published "Globalization, WTO and the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry," in Asian Affairs: An American Review (Vol.

He is currently working on a book titled Democracy in the Third World: Why it has succeeded in India and failed in Nigeria and a monograph on Nuclear Security in South Asia.