Spring 2026 Rice Fellow
Ornit Shani teaches Modern Indian History at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa, where she heads the India Programme. She is the author of How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise (Cambridge University Press, 2018; and Penguin Random House India, 2018). The book won the 2019 Kamaladevi Chattophadyay New India Foundation Prize for the best book on modern India. It has been reviewed in academic journals, newspapers and magazines, and featured on a number of podcasts.
There are many worthy causes, but none can prosper unless we can avoid nuclear war. Peace is therefore the overriding priority.
Henry Hart Rice