Kham Khan Suan Hausing

Kham Khan Suan Hausing is Professor, and former Head (3 August 2020 to 2 August 2023), Department of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, India. He earned his Master, MPhil and PhD degrees from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He previously taught Political Science at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi for over eight years (13 May 2004 to 30 August 2012). He was a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2012-13 at the Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia where he completed a project on “Asymmetric federalism and the question of democratic justice in Northeast India" (DoI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2014.904151) under the able mentorship of Professor Brendan O'Leary.

Hausing had also completed, as a co-researcher, the Leverhulme International Network Project on “Continuity and change in Indian federalism” (2014-15 to 2016-17) where his focus was on 'Telangana and the politics of state formation in India' (DoI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2018.1473856). This project also enabled him to collaborate with Harihar Bhattacharyya and Jhumpa Mukherjee to publish a coauthored article which compared the territorial management of ethnic conflicts in Bodoland and Telangana (DoI: 10.1080/14736489.2017.1279934). The Leverhulme project, co-ordinated by Wilfried Swenden of the University of Edinburgh, involved the Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Burdwan, Delhi and Hyderabad.

Hausing completed a major research project titled, 'Asymmetric autonomy and the politics of accommodation in Northeast India' (2019-2021) which was funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research as a part of its flagship programme called 'Impactful Policy Research in Social Science' (IMPRESS). This project has succeeded in drawing a typology of actually existing autonomy in Northeast India, an outcome of which has been published as 'Autonomy and the territorial management of ethnic conflicts in Northeast India,' in Territory, Politics, Governance 10(1), 2022, pp.120-143. DoI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21622671.2021.1884591. This article has won the Territory, Politics, Governance Best Paper Award, 2023. The Award was conferred to him by Klaus Dodds, the editor of Territory, Politics, Governance at a virtual event organised by the Regional Studies Association based in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2023. (https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/2023-territory-politics-governance-best-paper-award/)

Hausing’s works have been published in peer-reviewed journals including Asian Ethnicity; Contributions to Indian Sociology; Economic and Political Weekly; India Review; Indian Journal of Public Administration; Regional and Federal Studies; South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal; Studies in Indian Politics; and Territory, Politics, Governance. His opinion pieces have been published in The Hindu, The Indian Express, Livemint, The Quint, TRT World, The Statesman, The Tribune, Outlook, The Diplomat, and The Week. His interviews/commentaries on contemporary Indian politics have featured in Suno India podcast; ISAS South Asia Chat podcast, NUS; ABC news, Australia; CNA, Singapore; Mojo Story; NDTV 24/7; News9live; The Lallantop; The Print; Scroll.in; MirrorNow; NewsX; and The Wire.

Hausing has served as a peer-reviewer in over twenty journals, namely: Alternatives; Asian Ethnicity; Asian Journal of Political Science; Asian Security; Asian Survey; Australian Journal of Asian Law; Contemporary South Asia; Economic and Political Weekly; Ethnicities; Ethnopolitics; Indian Journal of Public Administration; India Review; Japanese Journal of Political Science; Journal of Borderland Studies; Mission Studies; Publius: The Journal of Federalism; Regional and Federal Studies; South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies; South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ); Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism; Studies in Indian Politics; Territory, Politics, Governance; and Third World Quarterly. 

Hausing was awarded the T.N. Chaturvedi Award, 2016 for the best article published in the Indian Journal of Public Administration in 2016 for his article titled, "Multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue in North-East Region  (NER) of India," https://doi.org/10.1177/0019556120160305. This Award was conferred to him by Venkaiah  Naidu, the Vice President of India, on behalf of the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) at its Annual General Meeting at its campus in New Delhi on 11 October 2017.

Hausing is a member of the Editorial Board of two peer-reviewed journals, namely, Ethnopolitics (Taylor and Francis) and Studies in Indian Politics (Sage). He is an honorary Senior Fellow of the Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. His research interest includes, among others, federalism, ethnic conflicts, nationalism and Indian politics with particular focus on Northeast India.
Supervisors: Balveer Arora and Brendan O'Leary