Ron Herring teaches political economy and political ecology at Cornell University, where he has been Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Chair of the Department of Government and Acting Director of the Title VI South Asia Program. Before Cornell, he was Professor of political science at Northwestern University and taught briefly at the Universities of Chicago, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Herring has been Editor of Comparative Political Studies, and remains on its editorial board, as on the boards of Contemporary South Asia, Critical Asian Studies and India Review. He has worked on various committees of Fulbright, SSRC, ACLS, the American Institute of Indian Studies and MacArthur Foundation among others.

His earliest academic interests were with land relations; Land to the Tiller: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia (Yale University Press/Oxford University Press) won the Edgar Graham Prize (London 1986).

Current work includes state property in nature, politics of genetically engineered organisms [on which he is editing a special issue of Journal of Development Studies, Transgenics and the Poor], and connections between economic development and ethnicity -- Carrots, Sticks and Ethnic Conflict: Rethinking Development Assistance (University of Michigan Press, edited with Milton Esman). His political writings have appeared in Frontline, Times of India, Financial Express and other publications.

Herring has been consultant to the US State Department, World Bank, UNDP, and other international organizations. He is currently Director/Convener of the Program on Nature and Development at Cornell University.

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate Courses:
Govt 131: Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics

Graduate Courses:
Govt 731: Comparative Political Ecology