Yash Sharma is a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Organized Hate’s Violence, Extremism, and Radicalization Program (VERP). He focuses on political mobilization, electoral politics, and ethnoreligious nationalism in South Asia. Yash is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati. He has earned degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Delhi in International Relations and Comparative Politics. His published work includes a study on the mobilization of youth in vigilante groups targeting inter-faith couples in India. His current projects include work on the rise of anti-gender ideology within ethnonationalist politics and a study of political attitudes among religious minorities living in majoritarian contexts.