Professor Glen Johnson

Professor Johnson is the author and co-author of several books and a number of articles on US foreign policy, international human rights, India’s foreign policy and ex-untouchables. He has been a Fulbright scholar in India twice, first at Poona University and later for three years as Director of the American Studies Research Centre in Hyderabad from 1990-93. For the last three years he has served as academic facilitator for the Fulbright-Nehru Seminar in Higher Education. In 2013 he was awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal for his work in human rights and international understanding. With his wife, Sipra Johnson (see below), he has led several educational tours of India for the Vassar College Alumnae/i Association and two for the National Geographic Society.