I am an Associate Professor of Political Science and University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University. I am also a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a Non-Resident Scholar on Digital Futures at New America. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Global Politics at Humboldt State University and Andrew Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies doctoral fellow.

I broadly research private power in global governance. My current research advances the global politics of Big Tech and AI governance. My work has been published in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, and International Studies Review, among other outlets. (You can find PDFs of all my articles here.) My first book, Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, 2022), explores how sovereign power is produced jointly by states and nonstate actors. It was recognized with the J. Ann Tickner Distinguished First Book Roundtable by the International Studies Association-Northeast (2024). I also theorize relational approaches like constructivism and new kinds of responsibility.

I am the founding director of the International Politics and Responsible Tech (iPART) research lab at Purdue, a founding member of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, and a working group lead of the Digital Futures Taskforce at New America. iPART has several projects. One builds an original dataset of Facebook's sociopolitical harms and tracks related regulatory activities worldwide. Another assembles a Tech Transparency database to assess how companies fulfill their human rights obligations. This research has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and several internal grants at Purdue.

I have won numerous teaching awards, including the highest recognition for assistant professors at Purdue.

I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, where I was also affiliated as a graduate fellow in the Center for Legal Studies and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. I am trained in comparative historical, archival, and interpretive methods.

My research and travel have been generously funded by: the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Andrew Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS); The Office of the Provost, Purdue Research Foundation, College of Liberal Arts, and Department of Political Science at Purdue University; the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Department of Political Science, Legal Studies Graduate Program, and Critical Theory Graduate Cluster, all at Northwestern University; as well as the International Studies Association, International Studies Association-Northeast, and British International Studies Association.

Swati Srivastava