Current Research Faculty

Kalyani Yeola is a Non-Resident Research Assistant at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. She has recently submitted her thesis titled, “Negotiating Nation and Citizenship: An Ethnographic Study of Tibetan Youth-in-Exile in India” at the Birla Institute of Technology And Science (BITS), Pilani. She was a UGC-JRF candidate during her doctoral programme. She has completed her B.A. and M.A. from Savitribai Phule Pune University in Political Science and International Studies.

Sriyansh Mohanty is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Chinese Studies and a doctoral scholar in political science from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sharda University. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Ravenshaw University, Odisha, with First Class Honours. He holds a Master's degree in political science from the Central University of Haryana. As part of his PhD in political science, he is working on contextualising the geostrategic shift in India's foreign policy from 2004 to 2024. His research interests include great-power politics, Chinese foreign policy, geostrategy, security and foreign policy in the post-Cold War era, Indian foreign policy, and regional security architectures. Beyond this, he is also interested in understanding the role of subnational actors in influencing foreign policy and a possible Indo-China collaboration for the Asian century.