Dipali Mukhopadhyay
Associate Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Former LISD Postdoctoral Fellow

Dipali Mukhopadhyay received her doctorate from Tufts University's Fletcher School in the fall of 2010 and received a BA in political science from Yale University. She wrote her dissertation on state-building and provincial governance in Afghanistan, particularly on the role of warlord commanders-turned-provincial governors. As part of her doctoral research, she conducted nearly two hundred interviews in eastern and northern Afghanistan, as well as Kabul, having spent several months in-country in 2007, 2008, and 2009. In 2004, she also conducted a brief training and research trip for the Agha Khan Development Network in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.  

Mukhopadhyay's research has been funded by the Eisenhower Institute, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, Harvard Law School, and the US Department of Education.  Dipali's writings have been published academically as well as by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and US News & World Report. She has worked on Afghanistan in consultation with the US Department of Defense, the Canadian government, the US military, and the World Bank.