Tanushree Goyal is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. As a comparative political scientist, Tanushree’s research sits at the intersection of gender and politics and the political economy of development, with India as her primary empirical site and extensions to other regions in the Global South.
Methodologically, Tanushree is a quantitative political scientist who grounds hypothesis generation, survey design, and data collection in fieldwork and qualitative insight. She combines tools of causal inference with primary data derived from survey instruments designed with ethnographic sensibility, the compilation of administrative data at unprecedented scales, and AI-driven data analysis.
Tanushree’s research has been published in leading political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. It has also been widely covered in national and international media, and she has contributed opinion editorials to The Indian Express. Her scholarship has been recognized with some of the most prestigious awards in political science, including the Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award in Political Economy (2022) and the Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy & Autocracy (2023). Recently, she recieved the prestigious APSA Urban and Local Politics career award, the Susan Clarke Young Scholar Award (2025). She serves as an Associate Editor at World Politics and is a member of EGAP, J-PAL, and the UK’s Political Economy Group.
Before joining Princeton, Tanushree was a postdoctoral scholar at the Harvard Academy and a non-resident visiting fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Oxford in 2021 as a member of Nuffield College, and a Research Master’s in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam in 2016. Before transitioning to political science, she completed a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
Tanushree Goyal is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. As a comparative political scientist, Tanushree's research sits at the intersection of gender and politics and the political economy of development, with India as her primary empirical site and extensions to other regions in the Global South. Methodologically, Tanushree is a quantitative political scientist who grounds hypothesis generation, survey design, and data collection in fieldwork and qualitative insight. She combines tools of causal inference with primary data derived from survey instruments designed with ethnographic…