Professor Uday Mehta has joined CSEP Research Foundation as Senior Visiting Fellow from January, 15th 2022. Professor Uday Singh Mehta is a distinguished professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at City University of New York (“CUNY”). He is an Original Member of the Globalization Committee for Social Change at CUNY since 2010 and was a member of the selection committee for the President of the Graduate Center at CUNY in 2017. He had also provided services to the Executive Committee of the political science department at CUNY in 2017 and to the Admission Committee of the political science department at CUNY in 2017 and 2020.

Professor Mehta is a renowned political theorist whose work encompasses a wide spectrum of philosophical traditions and issues, including the relationship between freedom and imagination, liberalism’s complex link with colonialism and empire, and, more recently, war, peace, and nonviolence. He is the author of two books, The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Political Thought of John Locke (1992) and Liberalism and Empire: Nineteenth Century British Liberal Thought (2000), which won the J. David Greenstone Book Award from the American Political Science Association in 2002 for the best book in history and theory. In 2002, he was one of ten recipients of the “Carnegie Scholars” prize awarded to “scholars of exceptional creativity.” He is currently completing a book on M. K. Gandhi’s critique of political rationality.

Professor Mehta received his undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, where he studied mathematics and philosophy, and holds a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Princeton University. He has held teaching positions at a number of universities, including Princeton, Cornell, MIT, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and Hull.