Dr. Andrea Malji joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in January 2025. Before joining DKI APCSS, Dr. Malji served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science at Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) from 2017-2024. While at HPU she served as the chair of the department of History, Humanities, and International Studies. She also taught courses and supervised thesis projects in the MA program in Diplomacy and Global Security. Dr. Malji holds a MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Kentucky with a concentration in International Relations. Her dissertation examined how geography shapes terrorism and counterterrorism tactics and policies in India and its borders.
Dr. Malji is actively involved in the research community and has published extensively on both traditional and non-traditional security topics. In 2022 she received the Fulbright-Nehru senior research fellowship and carried out research and held lectures throughout the state of Kerala in southern India. Her research has been published with Cambridge University Press, Routledge, the Hoover Institute, Terrorism and Political Violence, Progress in Development Studies, and Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism among others. She has also authored numerous public facing scholarship for outlets including the Stimson Center, 9dashline, Inkstick, and The Diplomatic Courier among others. In 2022, her research achievements led her to receive HPU’s Golden Apple Award for Scholar of the Year. In addition to her involvement in research publications, she also served as the program chair for the South Asia in World Politics section of the International Studies Association helping to create and arrange the panels for the yearly conference.
Dr. Malji has taught a variety of security-centered courses at the graduate and undergraduate level and teaches occasional modules on South Asia for the Foreign Service Institute. Dr. Malji has been actively involved in developing teaching strategies to improve learning outcomes, including games, simulations, seminars, and lectures. In 2019 she was selected as a teaching fellow from the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict to develop a graduate and undergraduate course on nonviolent resistance. To recognize her teaching accomplishments, she was selected as teacher of the year at Hawaii Pacific University in 2021.
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