Swapna Kona Nayudu is Lecturer of Social Sciences (Global Affairs) at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. She is also Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center and Associate at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She is a member of the Advisory Board at the Harvard University Association for Global Political Thought. Swapna took her PhD in War Studies from King’s College London, University of London. Her research has been published in Cold War History, Diplomatica, Global Intellectual History, and is forthcoming in the Journal of Cold War Studies. She is currently completing an international history of India’s international relations in the Nehru period.
Swapna’s work on the Cold War in India is on Indo-Soviet relations and has appeared in the edited volume, India and the Cold War and as a paper for the Cold War International History Project. Her paper on India’s diplomatic history has appeared in the journal Cold War History; her work on the multiple political traditions in early-twentieth century India led her to edit a special issue of the journal Global Intellectual History, for which she translated and explored in a paper the only book written in Hindustani by Nehru. A history of early Indian diplomacy and the establishment of the Indian Foreign Service appeared in the journal Diplomatica. Swapna has also written widely on India in the context of Asia-Africa relations, with pieces for Afro-Asia Visions, and forthcoming chapters in two edited volumes. She is currently working on two projects: a long essay on the 100 volumes of the Selected Works of Nehru, and a second book project that studies Indian internationalism in an inter-Asian context. Swapna also conducts archival research with textual and oral histories in 14 languages.
Research Specialisations
- Historical International Relations
- Global Political Thought
- Modern Indian History
- Diplomatic Studies
- Critical International Relations Theories
