Kavita Khory

Kavita Khory

Name: Kavita Khory ’84
Department: Politics, International Relations
Title: Ruth Lawson Professor of Politics; Carol Hoffmann Collins Director of the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives 

Education:

  • Ph.D., M.A., University of Illinois
  • A.B., Mount Holyoke College

Teaches: World politics, international security, ethnic conflict, propaganda and war, South Asia, and migration.

“As someone who teaches courses on politics and international relations, I couldn’t ask for a richer and more dynamic classroom experience.”

“I lead an incredibly exciting life,” says Kavita Khory, class of 1984. Khory has been on the Mount Holyoke faculty since 1990 and she currently holds the position of Carol Hoffmann Collins Director of the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives. 

The opportunity to pursue her passions — teaching and learning — in such an intellectually vibrant environment is more than she ever imagined. “I would not be sitting here if it were not for the scholarship funding I received for my undergraduate education,” Khory says. “That education was crucial to who I am and where I am and what I do.”

2017 recipient of the Mount Holyoke College Faculty Award for Teaching

“Mount Holyoke classrooms are very diverse, both in terms of our domestic students and our international students,” Khory says. “I couldn’t ask for a richer and more dynamic classroom experience. It’s precisely because of the students, the different perspectives they bring to bear and the contributions they make.”

Especially gratifying for Khory? Staying in touch with her students after they graduate. They are, as she puts it, “accomplished” and “phenomenal.”