Karuna Mantena is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She holds a BSc(Econ) in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1995), an MSc in Ideology and Discourse Analysis from the University of Essex (1996), and a PhD from Harvard University in 2004.  She previously taught at Cornell University. Her research interests include modern political thought, modern social theory, the intellectual history of empire, the theory and history of imperialism, South Asian politics and history, and theories of race and culture.   Her current research focuses on the political theory of M.K. Gandhi.