A scholar at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, Nandy studies political psychology, mass violence, cultures and politics of knowledge, utopias and visions. In 2008 he was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals of the world by the magazine, Foreign Policy, published by The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Professor Nandy has had a long and prolific career illuminating a number of subjects. He lists his research interests as: "political psychology, mass violence, cultures and politics of knowledge, utopias and visions", but he has also written on the history of science and technology, the nature of the post-colonial state, alternatives to development', alternate politics, the role of religion in society and the game of cricket in India. His works have been translated into Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Polish, Russian, and Spanish (not to mention most of the languages of the Indian subcontinent). Ashis Nandy is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies and Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures. He is a member of number of national and international civil society bodies. Nandy has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., a Charles Wallace Fellow at the University of Hull, and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh. He held the first UNESCO Chair at the Center for European Studies, University of Trier, in 1994. He will be a Scholar in Residence at the Center for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley in March 2009.