Dr Maya Tudor
Dr Maya Tudor
Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Politics
Email: Dr Maya Tudor
Teaching Interests
I joined St John’s in September 2011. Prior to arriving at St John’s, I was a Research Fellow with the Oxford Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy, and a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. I received my undergraduate degree from Stanford University and my masters and doctorate from Princeton University. I give tutorials in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), which includes the first-year Prelims, the core papers of Theory of Politics, Political Sociology, and Comparative Government, as well as specialised papers in Comparative Democratisation and the Politics of South Asia.
Research Interests
My research is centrally concerned with the determinants of regime outcomes. My 2010 dissertation, ‘Twin Births, Divergent Democracies: The Social and Institutional Origins of Regime Outcomes in India and Pakistan,’ posed the question of why India and Pakistan embarked upon divergent regime trajectories in the decade after their twin independences in 1947. The core argument advanced is that respective party strength critically explains regime stability while respective class interests and their associated ideologies critically explain regime type. In 2010, this dissertation was awarded the American Political Science Association’s Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation in the field of Comparative Politics and an Honourable Mention for the 2010 Walter Burnham Award for the best dissertation in Politics and History.
