Professor Kate Sullivan (University of Oxford, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies) will deliver the lectures on “India, a great Power in the making?” on Saturday April 11th, 2026 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Professor Kate Sullivan originally joined the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme as a departmental lecturer in October 2010. In September 2017 she took up Oxford’s Associate Professorship in the International Relations of South Asia, a joint post between Area Studies and the Department of Politics and International Relations. She was Course Director for the MSc and MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies in 2018-19 and Director of CSASP from 2018-2021. She hold a Governing Body Fellowship at St Antony’s College. Her research centres on India’s identity and state behaviour as a rising power. Her book, Rising India: Status and Power (2017), with Rajesh Basrur, looks at India’s status-seeking strategies in world politics since Independence. From 2013 to 2015 she led a collaborative research project that examined India’s rise from the perspective of a number of significant non-Western states, resulting in the edited volume Competing Visions of India in World Politics: India’s Rise beyond the West (2015). From 2015 to 2017 Manjari Chatterjee Miller and she developed an international research network focussing on India’s foreign policy under the post-2014 government, leading to our joint-editorship of the special issue of International Affairs, ‘India’s Rise at 70’ (January 2017). [read more]