Eric A. Strahorn (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is an associate professor at Florida Gulf Coast University and former Research Fellow of the National Asia Research Program of the National Bureau of Asian Research and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His first book An Environmental History of Northern India After Independence: The Himalayan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal was published in 2009and"The Indus River Basin in the 21st Century" in Robert M. Hathaway and Michael Wills (eds.) Managing New Security Challenges in Asia was published last year by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press.