Robin Jeffrey

Robin Bannerman Jeffrey is a Canadian-born professor. His primary research interest is the modern history and politics of India, especially with reference the northern area of Punjab and Kerala in the south. He is also interested in Indian media studies and development studies.

Life Robin Jeffrey was born in Canada.

Jeffrey took up a position as a research fellow at the Australian National University upon completion of his doctorate. He has taught at that institution in Canberra during two different periods. He taught politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, between 1979 and 2005, where he became a professor. having been previously elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1994.

, Jeffrey is an Emeritus Professor of La Trobe University and the Australian National University. He chairs an advisory panel of the Australia India Institute within the University of Melbourne, Australia.

In 2011, when concentrating on media and development studies, Jeffrey said that

Publications Jeffrey's published works include:

Author – his DPhil thesis

(co-authored with Assa Doron and published by Hatchette in India as Cell Phone Nation) Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018 (co-authored with Assa Doron).

Editor Media and Work in China and India (co-editor with Ronojoy Sen) (with Ronojoy Sen and Pratima Singh) (with Edward Aspinall and Anthony Regan) (co-editor with Ronojoy Sen)