Dr. Lavanya Suresh,
Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.
Lavanya Suresh is an Assistant Professor at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus. After her PhD in
Political Science (from ISEC Bangalore), she was an Assistant Professor at the Tata
Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad. Her work focuses on the political ecology of
commons in India, with a broader interest in decentralisation and public administration.
Besides publications in leading social science journals, she has co-authored a book (with
Prof. M.V. Nadkarni and N. Sivanna) on “Decentralised Democracy: Gandhi’s Vision and Indian
Reality.” She was also awarded the visiting research scholar fellowship under the Graduate
Development Program of the Watson Institute of International Studies’ at Brown University,
USA. She is PI and Co-PI in a number of funded projects.
