Adam Auerbach

Adam Auerbach is an Associate Professor in the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Auerbach’s research focuses on local governance, urban politics, and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on South Asia and India in particular. His first book, Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums (Cambridge University Press, 2020), accounts for the uneven success of India's slum residents in demanding and securing essential public services from the state. The project draws on more than two years of fieldwork and survey research in the north Indian cities of Jaipur, Rajasthan, and Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Demanding Development won the 2021 Dennis Judd Best Book Award from the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. His latest book (co-authored with CASI Director Tariq Thachil), Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness, was published by Princeton University Press in January 2023. For the 2022-23 academic year, Auerbach was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, and spent his fellowship year in the Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice at the World Bank.