Wolfson welcomes new Governing Body Fellow

We are delighted to welcome Adnan Naseemullah to Wolfson and to the College’s Governing Body.

Adnan is Professor of Comparative and South Asian Politics at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. He works in three broad areas: the political economy of national development, the intersection between state formation and political violence, and the politics of populism. He has published three books: Development after Statism (Cambridge 2017), Patchwork States (Cambridge 2022) and Righteous Demagogues (with Pradeep Chhibber, Oxford 2024).

He is currently working on research that explores the multiple meanings of democracy and on political violence in the context of domination and subordination. 

Professor Naseemullah has said about Wolfson: “I consider myself fortunate to be part of such a vibrant and diverse intellectual community, in one of the most stunning locations in Oxford.”