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JOHN ECHEVERRI-GENT
CURRICULUM VITAE
Office address: Home address:
Department of Politics 102 Vicar Court
University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22901
Charlottesville, VA 22901 Phone: (804)-977-9984
Phone: (804)924-3968
Fax: (804)924-3359
E-Mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of Political Science, University of Chicago. Dissertation:
"The State and the Poor: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Implementation
in India and the United States" (1987)
Diploma and Valedictorian. Central Hindi Institute, Government of India,
New Delhi (1977)
M.A. Department of Political Science, University of Chicago (1976)
B.A. Duke University. Double Major: History and Comparative Area
Studies (1974)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH
Associate Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and
Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, (1993 to date)
Director Undergraduate Programs, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, (2013
to date).
Consultant, Leader of special team on restructuring of Nepal’s financial sector,
World Bank 2012
Chair, American Political Science Association Task Force on Difference and Inequality
in Developing Societies, (2003-2005)
Acting Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia (2003-2004)
Associate Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and
Foreign Affairs (1997 to 2000)
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Assistant Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and
Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia (1987 to 1993)
Associate Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia
(1990-1991)
Consultant, "Promoting Democracy in Asia," a seminar for the Democratic
Pluralism Initiative, sponsored by U.S. Agency for International Development,
Washington, D.C. (1990)
Visiting Fellow, Overseas Development Council, Washington, D.C. (1988-89)
Acting Assistant Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government
and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia (1986-87)
Lecturer, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, (1985-86)
Fulbright Scholar, Dissertational Research in India (1983-84)
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Purdue University (Calumet) (1983)
Editorial Assistant, In These Times (1980-82)
Assistant to the Director of the Undergraduate Program of the Department
of Political Science, University of Chicago (1980-81)
Research Assistant for the National Institute of Education Project: "Urban School
Organization and the American Working Class" (1979-80)
Founder and Treasurer, Kamalsaagar Labor Contract Society for Cooperative Farming
(Azamgarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1977-78)
American Institute of Indian Studies Language Program and Diploma
Course in Hindi at the Central Hindi Institute of the Government of India
(1976-77)
College Year in India Program of the University of Wisconsin. Fieldwork
Research Paper: "Cooperative Societies in Uttar Pradesh" (1973-74)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, (2016-17)
Faculty Research Travel Grant, Center for International Studies, University of Virginia
(2011)
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Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, Sesquicentennial
Award (2008)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant 2005
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant 2001
Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, Sesquicentennial
Award (1997-98, deferred until 2000-01)
Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies (1998-99)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant (1997)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant (1995)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant (1994)
The 1993 Theodore J. Lowi Award presented by the Policy Studies
Organization for the best article in the Policy Studies Journal in 1992.
American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Short-term Fellowship (1991-92)
Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, Sesquicentennial
Award (1991-92)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant (1990)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant (1989)
MacArthur Scholar in Residence at the Overseas Development Council,
Washington, D.C. (1988-89)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant (1987)
Committee on Southern Asian Studies, University of Chicago, Dissertation
Write-Up Grant (1984-85)
U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship (1983-4)
American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellowship (1976-77)
B.A. Graduation from Duke University Magna Cum Laude (1974)
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PUBLICATIONS
A. BOOKS
John Echeverri-Gent. The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political
Development in India and the United States. New Delhi: Vistaar (Sage)
Publications, 1995, (A new Indian edition including a detailed preface
updating the evolution of rural poverty programs in India: "Structure and
Agency in Indian Poverty Alleviation," pp. ix-xxviii.)
John Echeverri-Gent, The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political
Development in India and the United States. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1993. 312pp.
Richard E. Feinberg, John Echeverri-Gent and Friedemann Muller (eds.)
Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy and the USSR,
China and India. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1990.
viii + 241 pp.
B. JOURNALS ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
John Echeverri-Gent, “India’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis: From Quick
Rebound to Protracted Slowdown?” in Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging
Economies Survived the Global Financial Slowdown. Washington, DC:
Brookings, 2015 pp. 74-101.
John Echeverri-Gent, “Brave New World? Brazil and India’s Financial Statecraft in
the Changing Global Order” with Leslie Elliott Armijo in Financial Statecraft of
Emerging Powers: Asia and Latin America in Comparative Perspective. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp. 47-76.
John Echeverri-Gent, “Absolute or Relative Gains? How Status Quo and Emerging
Powers Conceptualize Global Finance” (with Leslie Armijo). In Thomas Oatley
and William Winecroft, eds. Handbook of International Monetary Relations.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014, pp. 144-167.
John Echeverri-Gent, Contribution to Review Symposium on Citizenship in an
Unequal World, A Discussion of The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global
Inequality by Ayelet Shachar in Perspectives on Politics 9:3 (September 2011)
pp. 625-630.
John Echeverri-Gent, “Symposium: New Approaches to Economic Inequality in
Developing Countries: Editor’s Introduction,” PS: Political Science and Politics
42: 4 (October 2009) pp. 629-31.
John Echeverri-Gent, “Persistent High Inequality as an Endogenous Political
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Process,” PS:Political Science and Politics (October 2009) pp. 633-38.
John Echeverri-Gent, The Persistent Problem: Inequality, Difference and the
Challenge of Development: Report of the Task Force on Difference and
Inequality in Developing Countries Inequality Difference and Developing
Societies,” (primary author) Washington, DC: American Political Science
Association, 2008. 68p.
John Echeverri-Gent, “Politics of Market Micro Structure: Towards a New Political
Economy of India’s Equity Market Reform,” in India’s Economic Reforms.
Edited by Rahul Mukherji. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 328-58.
John Echeverri-Gent, “Financial Globalization and India’s Equity Market Reform,”
India Review 3:4 (October 2004) pp. 306-332.
John Echeverri-Gent, “Political Economy of India’s Fiscal and Financial Policy,”
In Economic Policy Reform in India: The External, Financial, and Fiscal
Scenario edited by Anne O. Krueger and Sajjid Z. Chinoy. Stanford CA: Stanford
University Press, 2003, pp. 157-73.
John Echeverri-Gent, “Politics in India’s Decentered Polity,” in India Briefing:
Quickening the Pace of Change. Edited by Alyssa Ayres and Philip Oldenburg.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002, pp. 19-53.
John Echeverri-Gent, “India: Financial Globalization, Liberal Norms, and the
Ambiguities of Democracy,” in Financial Globalization and Democracy In
Emerging Markets. Edited by Leslie Elliott Armijo. New York: St. Martins,
1999, pp. 207-232.
John Echeverri-Gent, “Political Science,” in India’s Worlds and U.S. Scholars
1947-97. Edited by Joseph Elder, Edward Dimock, and Ainslie Embree. New
Delhi: Manohar, 1998, pp. 399-418.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Government and Politics," in India: a country study.
Edited by Robert Worden and James Heitzman. Washington, D.C. U.S. Library
of Congress, 1996. pp. 429-506.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Structure and Agency in Indian Poverty Alleviation,"
Preface to John Echeverri-Gent, The State and the Poor: Public Policy and
Political Development in India and the United States. New Delhi:
Vistaar/Sage, 1995, pp. ix-xxix.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Popular Participation and Poverty Alleviation: The
Experience of Reform Communists in India's West Bengal," World
Development 20 no. 10 (October 1992): 1401-1422.
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John Echeverri-Gent, "Politics of Development and the Development of Politics:
An Inquiry into the Political Means of Equitable Development," Contemporary
South Asia 1 no. 3, (Fall 1992): 325-349.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Between Autonomy and Capture: Embedding
Implementing Agencies in their Societal Environment," Policy Studies
Journal 22 no. 3 (Summer 1992): 342-364.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Economic Reform in India: A Long and Winding Road," in
Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy and the USSR, China
and India. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1990, pp. 103-134.
John Echeverri-Gent and Friedemann Muller, "The Political Economy of
Reform in the Giants," in Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign
Policy and the USSR, China and India. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
Books, 1990, pp. 135-168.
Richard E. Feinberg, John Echeverri-Gent and Friedemann Muller, "Introduction:
Overview," in Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy and the
USSR, China and India. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1990, pp. 3-
28.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Guaranteed Employment in an Indian State: The
Maharashtra Experience," Asian Survey 23 no. 12 (December 1988): 1294-
1310.
Co-Author with Paul E. Peterson, Margaret Weir and Marcia Turner- Jones, "The
Politics of Race and Equity," in Paul E. Peterson. The Politics of School
Reform, 1987-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Co-author with Paul E. Peterson, Margaret Weir, Carol Peterson and David Plank,
"Finance and Reform: Issues of the Thirties," in Paul E. Peterson. The Politics
of School Reform, 1987-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
C. WORKS IN PROCESS
John Echeverri-Gent and Kamal Sadiq (eds.) Situating Knowledge and Social
Relations in the Dynamics of Change: Comparative Politics and the Legacy of
the Rudolphs. Edited volume under consideration by University of Chicago
Press.
John Echeverri-Gent, “Revitalizing Delhi’s Yamuna: An Architecture of
Complexity,” 2500 word essay for University of Virginia Yamuna River
Project.
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John Echeverri-Gent, April Herlevi, and Kym Ganczak, “India and the United
States in the New World Order,” article-length manuscript.
John Echeverri-Gent, April Herlevi, and Kym Ganczak, “China, India and the
United States in the New Global Order,” article-length manuscript.
John Echeverri-Gent, "The Politics of Market Development: A Unified Political
Economy Approach" 10,000 word manuscript, for a special issue of Socio-
Economic Review entitled "Contesting Markets: How Organizations and Social
Movements Shape the Political Economy" September 1, 2017.
John Echeverri-Gent, Politics of Markets: Political Economy of India’s Capital
Market Reform in Comparative Perspective (Book manuscript in preparation)
D. BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Why India Matters by Maya Chadda. Boulder: CO, Lynn Reinner
2014. Political Science Quarterly 130:1 (Spring 2015) pp. 139-141.
Review of Corruption and Reform in India: Public Services in the Digital Age by
Jennifer Bussell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Perspectives
on Politics 12: 4 (December 2014) pp. 938-39.
Review of Atul Kohli, Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India. Studies in Indian
Politics 1:1 (June 2013) pp. 113-115.
Review of Maria Victoria Murrillo, Political Competition, Partisanship, and
Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities (Cambridge University Press,
2009) in America’s Quarterly 4:1 (Winter 2010) pp. 162-63.
Akhil Gupta and Aradhana Sharma, “Globalization and Postcolonial States,”
Invited commentary on article manuscript published in Current Anthropology
47:2 (April 2006) pp. 296-97.
Steven I. Wilkinson, Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots
in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 in Political Science
Quarterly 120: 2 (Summer 2005) pp. 346-47.
Pradeep Chhibber, Democracy without Associations. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1999. in American Political Science Review 94:4 (December
2000) pp. 961-62.
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Review of Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, India: Economic Development and
Social Opportunity. Delhi: Oxford University Press, Journal of Asian Studies
57:4 (November 1998) pp. 1197-98.
Review of Sunita Parikh, The Politics of Preference: Democratic Institutions and
Affirmative Action in the United States and India . Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1997. In American Journal of Sociology103 no. 5 (March,
1998) pp. 1465-67.
Review of Jagdish Bhagwati, India in Transition: Freeing the Economy. Oxford:
Clarendon, 1993 in Economic Development and Cultural Change 43 no. 4 (July
1995) pp. 895-97.
Review of Nikhilesh Bhattacharya, Dipankor Coondoo, Pradip Maiti and Robin
Mukherjee, Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Rural India. New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 1991; and Arun Sinha. Against the Few: Struggles of India's Rural
Poor. London: Zed Books Ltd, 1991 in Journal of Asian Studies (August,
1994).
Review of George Sorensen, Democracy, Dictatorship and Development. New
York: St. Martins Press, 1991. In Economic Development and Cultural Change
41 no. 3 (April 1993) pp. 679-684.
Review of Dennis Merrill. Bread and Ballot: The United States and India's
Economic Development. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1990. In Political Science Quarterly (Fall 1991).
Review of Alexandra George. Social Ferment in India. London: Athlone Press,
1986. In Journal of Asian Studies 47 no. 3 (August 1988).
Review of Jon Pynoos. Breaking the Rules: Bureaucracy and Reform in Public
Housing. New York: Plenum Press, 1986. In American Journal of Sociology
92:3 (November 1987).
Review of Pradip K. Ghosh (ed.) Developing South Asia: A Modernization
Perspective. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. In Contemporary
Sociology. 15, no. 3 (May 1986).
Review of Hernan Vidal. Dar la Vida por la Vida: La Agrupacion Chilena de
Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos. Minneapolis: Institute for the Study
of Ideologies and Literature, 1982. In Ethics (Autumn 1983).
Review of Marvin E. Gettleman et al. (eds.) El Salvador: Central America in the
New Cold War. New York: Grove Press, 1981. In These Times (November 18,
1981).
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INVITED TALKS AND PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
"Revitalizing Delhi's Yamuna: An Architecture of Complexity," India Habitat Centre,
New Delhi India, March 29, 2017.
Roundtable on "India as a Leading Power: Its "Rising" Status and Complex Foreign
Economic Policy" International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD,
February 24, 2017
"Understanding the Implications of Changes in the Global Economy for Foreign Policy in
South Asia,” South Asia in World Politics Working Group" International Studies
Association Annual Meetings, Annual Meetings, Baltimore, MD, February 21, 2017.
Roundtable on "New Ways to Think about Comparative Politics: The Rudolphs'
Intellectual Legacy" American Political Science Association Annual Meetings,
Philadelphia, PA, September 3, 2016.
"India and the United States in the New World Order," lecture given to the University of
Chicago Centre, New Delhi, New Delhi India, July 25, 2016.
"What do the U.S. Elections Mean for India?" joint presentation given with Neelam Dev
at Gateway House, Mumbai, India, July 21, 2016.
“Alignment not Alliance: United States-Indian Relations in a Decentralizing Global
Economy,” Charlottesville Council on Foreign Relations, January 16, 2016,
Charlottesville, VA
“On-line Learning Assessment at the University of Virginia,” (with Adam Hughes)
Annual Meeting of the Virginia Assessment Group, November 18-20, 2015, Richmond,
VA.
“India’s Financial Sector Reform: Assessing it Impact on Inclusiveness, Equity and the
Development of the Indian State,” 44th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of
Wisconsin, October 22-25, 2015.
“China, India and the United States in the New Global Order,” (with April Herlevi)
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA
September 3-6, 2015
“Engaging Students Through Active Learning,” (with Pil-Won On, Paromita Sen, and
Andrew Elliott) Pedagogy Innovation Summit, University of Virginia, May 6, 2015.
“Economic Interdependence and Strategic Interest: China, India, and the United States in
the New Global Order,” with April Herlevi at the conference on “Changing Asia:
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Perspectives on Regional and Global Cooperation” at the German Institute of Global and
Area Studies, Konrad Adenaur Stiftung, Hamburg Germany, April 17, 2015.
“Namobama Bonhomie in the New World Order: India, China, and US Foreign Policy,”
World Bank, Washington, DC, February 11, 2015.
“Narendra Modi and the Forging of India’s Critical 2014 Parliamentary Elections,”
Richmond Council of World Affairs, Richmond VA, November 12, 2014.
“Economic Interdependence and Strategic Interest: China, India, and the United States,”
with April Herlevi. Department of Politics Brown Bag Lunch, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA July 30, 2014.
“Historic Change or More of the Same? India’s Political Economy and the 2014
Parliamentary Elections.” Lecture given at Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH, April
30, 2014.
“The Changing Structure of the Global Economy and Theories of Strategic Interest
in the New World Order,” with April Herlevi. Lecture given at the workshop on
“Strategic Rivalry and Economic Interdependence: China India and the United States in
the New Global Order”, University of Virginia, February 28, 2014.
“The Economy, Business, Campaign Finance and India’s 2014 Parliamentary Elections.”
Lecture given at the India International Centre, New Delhi January 6, 2014.
“The Economy, Business, and India’s 2014 Parliamentary Elections,” talk given at the
“Symposium on India's 2014 Parliamentary Elections: Analyzing the World's Most
Populous Democracy,” School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins
University, Washington, DC December 3, 2013.
“Between Neoliberalism & Social Democracy: Economic Development Indian Style,”
Talk given at the workshop on “Neoliberal Development and Indian Democracy: The
Politics of Rights, Rebellions and Reforms,” Stockholm University, 10-12 October, 2013
Discussant, “Before the Washington Consensus: India and the Rise of Neoliberalism”
paper by Nicole Sackley, GAGE Seminar, Miller Center, Charlottesville, VA, March 29,
2013.
“Financial Statecraft in A Changing World Order: Why India Will Bargain More Like
Richard Lugar than Eric Cantor,” presentation at conference on “Drivers of the U.S.-
India Relationship” sponsored by The Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S.
Department of State and the National Intelligence Council, Washington, DC, September
7, 2012.
“A Brave New World: Comparing Brazil and India’s Strategies to Manage Financial
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Globalization” with Leslie Elliott Armijo paper presented at Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association August 30-September 2, 2012.
“Understanding India’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis: How Its ‘Success’ Let to
New Problems,” talk given at University of Southern California, July 22, 2012.
“A Brave New World: Comparing Brazil and India’s Strategies to Manage Financial
Globalization” Paper presented at the workshop on "Financial Statecraft and Ascendant
Powers" held at the University of Southern California on Thursday, April 5, 2012.
“Convergent or Decoupled? India and the ‘Lessons’ of the Great Recession,” Paper
prepared for the International Studies Association Annual Meeting San Diego, April 1-4,
2012.
Chair and discussant, “Shaping the City from ‘Below’: Identity, Labor, and the Remaking
of Cities” panel at the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto Canada, March 15-18, 2012.
“Contradictions in Motion: The Dynamics of India’s Political Economy” presented to the
Executive Seminar on India, a briefing session for the US Ambassador-designate to India,
organized by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State and the
National Intelligence Council, Washington, DC February 17, 2012.
“India and the ‘Lessons” of the Global Financial Crisis,” talk given at William & Mary,
November 18, 2011.
“China’s ‘Politics in Time’: Patterns of Chinese Political Development in Comparative
Historical Perspective,” presentation co-authored with Brantly Womack and presented at
Conference on Chinese Models of Development: Domestic and Global Aspects, Taipei,
Taiwan, November 4, 2011.
“Imbalances and Instability in Pakistan,” talk given to Symposium on Pakistan organized
by National Security Division, Battelle Corporation, Charlottesville, VA September 8,
2011.
“India and the ‘Lessons’ of the Global Financial Crisis,” Pre-International Studies
Association Annual Meeting Workshop “Unexpected Outcomes across the
Pacific Rim: The Quick Rebound of Emerging Markets from the 2008-9 Global
Crisis” Montreal March 15, 2011.
“Why Does Inequality Matter? Power Asymmetries and the Politics of Economic
Development” talk presented to Mary Washington University, Fredericksburg VA,
September 27, 2010
“Does Competitive Politics Produce Competitive Markets? Politics of Financial Market
Development” paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Political
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Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1-4, 2010.
Chair and discussant, Panel on “Inequality and Development: Regime and Redistribution
in Developing Nations” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Washington, DC, September 1-4, 2010.
Lecture “The Uneasy Alliance: Pakistan and the United States
Campaign Against Islamic Terrorism,” lecture presented to Council on Foreign
Relations, Worcester MA, May 11, 2010.
“Why Do Some Financial Markets Develop and Others Do Not? Politics of India’s
Capital Market Reform” paper presented to the Workshop on States, Development, and
Global Governance, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 12-13, 2010.
Conference Organizer, Global Security in the Balance: Pakistan and U.S. Foreign Policy,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA February 25-26, 2010. Talk: “Pakistan’s
Social Diversity, Ambivalence to Religious Militants, and U.S Foreign Assistance”
Discussant, Panel on “Inequality and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective” Annual
Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 3-6, 2009.
“Economic Development and US Assistance in Pakistan,” at symposium on
Challenges and Prospects for the Obama Administration,” University of Virginia,
April 24, 2009
“The Challenge of Pakistan: Economic Development and U.S. Foreign Policy,”
Monmouth University, April 4, 2009.
“India and Financial Globalization,” presentation given at CUNY Graduate Center, New
York, NY, December 2, 2008.
“Micro-Mechanisms Versus Structural Variables: Political Economy of India’s Financial
Market Reforms” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Boston, August 28-31, 2008.
“The Persistent Problem: Inequality, Difference and the Challenge of Development”
presentation given at United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC, July 24, 2008.
“The Persistent Problem: Inequality, Difference and the Challenge of Development”
presentation given at the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, July 10, 2008.
“The Rise of the BRICs and the Plight of the Bottom Billion,” a paper co-authored with
Kelli Joseph presented at Workshop on “Emerging Power in the Global System,”
University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 8, 2008.
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“Pakistani Maelstrom: Musharraf Agonistes,” a talk given to the Charlottesville
Committee on Foreign Relations, Charlottesville, VA, December 6, 2008.
“Institutional Sources of Support and Resistance to India’s Financial Market Reform.”
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007.
Chair and Discussant, Panel on “Pursuing Portability: Cross-Regional Analyses of
Democratic Institutional Development,” Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007.
“Opportunities and challenges for India’s Political Trajectory to 2025” DNI-Private
Sector Initiative Conference on the “Underpinnings of India’s Economic and Political
Transformation: 2025” July 18, 2007, Arlington, Virginia.
“Corruption in Indian Financial Markets,” School of Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, March 30, 2007.
Chair and discussant, “Does It Take Two to Tango? Testing, Extending, and
Modifying the Two-Level Framework, Annual Meeting of the International
Studies Association. Chicago, IL March 1-4, 2007.
“Inequality, Difference, and Inequality,” Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31-September 3, 2007.
“Politics of Difference and Inequality in Developing Societies,” Annual Meeting
of the Political Studies Association, Reading UK April 4-6, 2006.
Chair and Presenter, Roundtable, “Difference in Inequality in Developing Societies,”
Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, March 22-26, 2006.
“Economic Development and Indian Politics,” Talk given to the Virginia
Center for Teaching International Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University,
December 8, 2005.
“The Conflict in Kashmir: Historical Background, Contemporary
Prospects” Talk given to the Virginia Center for Teaching International Studies,
Virginia Commonwealth University, September 18, 2005.
Chair and presenter, Roundtable, “Taskforce on Difference and Inequality in the
Developing World” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
September 1-4, 2005.
“Constructing Global Markets: The WTO and Trade Policies in Developed and
Developing Countries” (co-authored with Leslie Elliott Armijo) Paper presented at the
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Conference on Difference and inequality in Developing Societies: Trajectories of Change
and Social Consequences, University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA, April 22-23, 2005.
“Mental Models and International Inequality: Contending Visions of Global Finance”
(co-authored with Leslie Elliott Armijo) Paper presented at the Conference on Difference
and inequality in Developing Societies: Trajectories of Change and Social Consequences,
University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA, April 22-23, 2005.
“India and the Politics of International Economic Governance” Paper presented at the
Conference on Economic Globalization and Its Implications for Democracy in South
Asia, University of Texas at Austin, April 8-9, 2005.
Discussant for Panel on “Inequality in the Rest of Asia” (papers by Aseema Sinha
“Inequality in South Asia” and Brantly Womack, “Is International Inequality a Bad
Thing: the Case of China and Vietnam.” Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies,
University of Virginia, February 26, 2005,
Chair, Roundtable on “Trajectories of Inequality” annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1-5, 2004.
Discussant, panel on “Political Economy of Institutional and Distributional Change:
China and India in Comparative Perspective” annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Chicago, September 1-5, 2004.
Discussant, “Globalization and the Politics of International Corporate Taxation: A View
from India,” paper presented by Rahul Mukherjee, Third Annual Network on South
Asian Politics and Political Economy Conference, Paris, June 28-30.
Discussant for paper by Lawrence Saez entitled “Barriers to entry and second-generation
reforms: Evidence from the financial services industry in India” at the workshop on
Economic Reforms, Human Development and Governance in India: Changes in
Institutional Structures and Incentives Since 1991. Center for Advance Study of India,
University of Pennsylvania, June 13-15, 2004.
“Financial Globalization and the Impressive Success of India’s Equity Market Reform”
paper presented to the to Symposium on “The Politics of India’s Next Generation
Economic Reforms: Sectors, Actors and Prospects” School of Advanced
International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., May 17, 2004.
“Globalization Makers and Globalization Takers: Financial Globalization and the
Dynamics of Security Market Reform” with Radoslav Iliev. Paper presented at the
annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 15-18,
2004.
“Afghanistan and Indonesia: What is the Threat” presentation with Jeffrey Winters,
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Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, November 10, 2003.
Discussant and panel chair, Second Annual Network on South Asian Politics and
Political Economy Conference at Bangalore, India July 1-3. 2003.
“Financial Globalization and the Dynamics of Security Market Reform in India, Cote
D’Ivoire and the United States” at a conference entitled “Area Studies Redux: Situating
Knowledge in a Globalizing World” in honor of Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I.
Rudolph, April 11-12, 2003, University of Chicago.
“Financial Globalization and the Dynamics of Security Market Reform in India, Cote
D’Ivoire and the United States” Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, January
16, 2003.
“Explaining the Pace of Economic Reform: Comparing the Politics of Reform Across
India’s Financial Sectors,” India Club at the World Bank/IMF, Washington, DC, October
16, 2002.
“Politics of Market Microstructure: Reforming India’s Equity Market Institutions,” at the
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 30-
September 1, 2002.
Discussant, Panel on “Democracy and Federal Reform in Three Giants, Brazil, Russia,
and India,” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston,
August 30-September 1, 2002.
“Politics of Markets: The Political Economy of Reforming India’s Stock Markets,” (Book
Manuscript), First Annual Network on South Asian Politics and Political Economy
Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 1, 2002.
“India’s Great Transformation: Financial Globalization and the Reform of India’s Equity
Markets,” presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association in
New Orleans 24-27 March, 2002.
Discussant, Panel on “Global Finance and Domestic Governance,” at the annual meeting
of the International Studies Association in New Orleans 24-27 March, 2002.
“Pakistan’s Fragile State and International Terrorism,” talk given at the Miller Center for
Public Affairs, University of Virginia, September 17, 2001.
“Reforming India’s Equities Markets in a Globalizing World,” paper co-authored with
Ajay Shah, and Susan Thomas, presented at the American Political Science Association,
San Francisco, August 29-September 2, 2001.
Chair, Panel on “Reforming the Economy” at the American Political Science
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Association, San Francisco, August 29-September 2, 2001.
“The Future of India’s Financial Sector Reform,” comments prepared for Conference on
India’s Economic Reform, Stanford University, Stanford CA. June 1-2, 2001.
“The Political Economy of Reforming India’s Stock Exchanges,” paper presented at
University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 13, 2001.
“Economic Governance Regimes and the Reform of India’s Stock Exchanges.” Paper
presented at the International Political Science World Congress, Quebec City, August 1-
5, 2000.
“Globalization and Decentralization: Lessons in Good Governance from China and
India.” Paper presented at Yale University, February 11, 2000.
“Globalization and Decentralization: Lessons in Good Governance from China and
India.” Paper presented at the University of Connecticut, February 10, 2000.
“The Construction of India's Capital Market in a Globalizing World,” Paper presented at
the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles, March 15 -18,
1999.
“Governance Structures and the Political Economy of India’s Stock Exchanges”
National Stock Exchange, Mumbai, India, August 23, 1999
“Governance Structures and the Political Economy of India’s Stock Exchanges” Indira
Gandhi Institute of Development Studies, Mumbai, India, August 20, 1999.
“Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Delusions, Nightmares, and Lessons of the
Morning After,” Lecture given at The Miller Center of Public Affairs, Charlottesville,
VA February 9, 1999
“Globalization, Partisan Competition and the Paradox of India’s Economic Reform,” at
the conference on “India and Globalization,” India International Centre, New Delhi
January 14-17, 1999.
“Globalization, Partisan Competition, and the Paradox of India’s Economic Reform,” at
the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, January 15, 1999.
“Globalization, Partisan Competition, and the Paradox of India’s Economic Reform,” at
the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, January 13,
1999.
“Governance Structures and Market-Making: Regulating India's Equity Markets in a
Globalizing World” presented at the conference on “India’s Economic Reform”
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University of California-Santa Cruz, November 20-21, 1998.
Invited participant conference on “The Indian Sub-Continent: Prospects in the Twenty-
First Century,” sponsored by The Ditchley Foundation Oxfordshire, England, October
9-11, 1998. (Declined)
“Weak State, Strong Reforms? Globalization, Partisan Competition, and the Paradox of
India’s Economic Reform” paper presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Boston, September 3-6, 1998. Panel organizer: “Political
Parties and Economic Reform”.
“Financial Globalization and the Ambiguities of Democracy: The Case of India,” a paper
presented to South Asia and Middle East Seminar, University of Chicago, May 14, 1998.
“Explaining the Paradox of India’s Economic Reform: Globalization, Partisan
Competition, and the incentives for Reform,” paper presented at Symposium on "The
Indian Democracy and the Politics of Nation-Building," Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, March 26-27, 1998.
Invited participant, symposium on "Democratization and Decentralization in India" at
Princeton University, October 31 and November 1, 1997.
Invited participant, conference on “India’s Democracy at Fifty” sponsored by the
National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies,
Washington D.C., September 24, 1997.
Chair and Discussant, Panel on “The Quality of Democracy and Democratic
Consolidation” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 1997.
Discussant, panel on “Comparative Perspectives,” Symposium on “Power, Agrarian
Structure, and Peasant Mobilization in Modern India” Charlottesville, VA May 23-25,
1997.
Invited participant, conference on "Indian's Economic Reform" Harvard University,
Cambridge Massachusetts, December 13-14, 1996.
Chair "Asia to 2010: The Interdependence of Security & Prosperity" The University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, November 2, 1996.
"Governance in a Globalizing World: Deconstructing Decentralization in India, China,
and the United States," paper presented at the conference on "India, Southeast Asia and
the United States: Common Challenges to Governance into the 21st Century" sponsored
and organized by the Asia Society, New York, September 5-7, 1996.
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"Financial Globalization and the New Geography of Democracy and Development in
India" Paper presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, San Francisco, August 29-September 1, 1996.
Discussant, Panel on "Ethnic conflict and the International Normative Regime," at the
1996 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco,
August 29-September 1, 1996.
"New Campaign Technologies, Party Organization, and the Politics of Economic Reform
in India and China" paper to be presented at the conference on Political and Economic
Reform in China and India, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI July 12-13, 1996.
Chair and discussant, Panel entitled "Neo-Liberal Economic Reforms in Latin America,"
1996 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago IL April
18-20, 1996.
"India: the Political Economy of Integration into Global Capital Markets," Conference on
Culture Clash: Financial Globalization, National Policy Autonomy, and Democratization
in the Emerging Markets," Brown University, Providence, RI, November 11, 1995.
Chair of Panel entitled "Politics of Economic Development: The Role of the State,
Parties and Business Groups" Paper presented with co-author Christopher Sabatini,
"Where's the Party: Political Parties and the Partisan Theory of Economic Reform,"
1995 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August
31-September 3, 1995.
"Political Reforms: Civil Society/Ethnic Conflict Management," and Comparative
Reforms in China and India: An Assessment," Symposium on Comparative Reforms in
China and India, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & Marquette University Center
for International Studies, Milwaukee, WI May 12-13, 1995.
Discussant, Panel on "The Political Element in Economic Development: Perspectives
from India and Pakistan," 1995 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies,
Washington, D.C. April 6-9, 1995.
Organizer of Panel entitled "Bringing Parties Back In: Political Parties, Democratic
Consolidation, and Economic Reform, the Midwest Political Science Association
Meetings, Chicago April 4-6, 1995. Paper to be presented: "Liberal Democracy
without Liberal Parties? India's political paradox and its consequences for the
Politics of Economic Reform."
"India's Growing Middle Class and Its Emerging Stock Market: Two Factors in the
Expanding Economic Linkages Between the United States and India" talk given to
the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, April 15,
1994.
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"Against Equilibria: The Dynamic Constraints of India's Economic Reform," paper
presented to the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Meetings, Washington, D.C. September 2-5.
"Between Market and the State: "The Dynamics of Formulating Effective Technology
Policy, paper presented at 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. September 2-5.
Organizer of Panel at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Los
Angeles (March 25-28, 1993). Panel title: "Theory of the State: Perspectives from the
Grassroots" Title of paper to be presented: "Theories of the State: A Critique from
India's Grassroots".
"Managed Trade and Competitive Advantage," talk given at the Darden School of
Business, University of Virginia, April 7, 1993.
Chair, Panel Entitled "Theoretical Frameworks for Democratic Political Development
Assessments", Organized by the National Academy of Sciences, National Research
Council, Washington, D.C. January 7, 1993.
Roundtable on Asian Politics. 1992 Conference of Virginia Political Scientists,
Washington and Lee University, Lexington Virginia, (December 5, 1992).
"Strength in Weakness? Paradoxes in the Political Economy of India's Economic
Reform" paper presented at the 1992 Southern Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, Atlanta (November 5-8, 1992).
Discussant, Panel on Political Parties and Transitions to Democracy. Southern Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta (November 5-8, 1992).
Co-organizer with Brantly Womack, Roundtable on "Asia in a Post-Cold War World".
Other participants: Brantly Womack, Allen Lynch and Leonard Schoppa. University of
Virginia, Charlottesville VA (September 30, 1992)
"Public Policy and Political Development: The Political Dynamics of Rural Development
in the United States and India" Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi,
(July 28, 1992)
Organizer of Roundtable on "Marxism in a Post-Communist World". Other panelists:
Gianfranco Poggi, Allan Megill, and Robert Fatton. University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA (October 9, 1991)
"Social Democracy for Peasants: Making India's Rural Development More Equitable" A
paper presented to the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago (April
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18-29, 1991)
"Social Democracy for Peasants: Making India's Rural Development More Equitable" A
paper presented to the Seminar on South Asian Political Economy, University of Chicago
(April 18, 1991)
Organizer Conference on "Public Policy and Social Change in Contemporary India"
(January 26, 1991) Charlottesville, VA. Paper presented: "The Politics of Poverty
Alleviation in India"
"Primary Education as Poverty Alleviation," A paper presented to the National Institute
of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi (January 16, 1991) “The Decline
of Congress Hegemony and the Rise of Social Strife in India" Talk sponsored by William
and Mary University (December 7, 1990)
Consultant, "Promoting Democracy in Asia," a seminar for the Democratic Pluralism
Initiative, sponsored by U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.
(June 1, 1990)
"The Political Economy of Economic Reform in Three Giants," a paper presented to the
Seminar on South Asian Political Economy, University of Chicago (November 9, 1989)
Paper presented at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Atlanta, GA. Title: "Moving to the Frontier: Promoting Technological
Change in India's Computer Industry,"
Paper presented at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C. Title: "Between Autonomy and Capture: Embedding
Implementing Agencies in Their Societal Environment"
Organizer of Panel at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.
Panel title: "Economic Development and Redistributive Reforms: Comparative
Perspectives From India's Grassroots" Title of paper presented: "The Political Means
of Effective Development: Comparing Public Works Programs in Maharashtra and
West Bengal"
Participant in the Conference on the USA, The USSR and World Economic Development
sponsored by American Academy of Learned Societies and the Soviet Academy of
Sciences. Washington, D.C. (October 5-7, 1987)
Paper Presented at the Twenty-first Bengal Studies Conference, (May 1987). Title
"Politics Takes Command: Implementation of the National Rural Employment
Programme in West Bengal"
"Revenge of the Rational Peasant: Paradoxes in Rural Development," talk given to
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Seminar, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia (February 19, 1987)
Paper presented at the 1985 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association. Title: Bureaucratic Policy Implementation: A Resource Dependence
Perspective"
Discussant on "Pro-Poor Policies For South Asia" Panel at the 32nd Annual Meeting of
the Association for Asian Studies Chicago, (April 1982)
Paper presented at the Annual Conference on Third World Issues (Chicago, March 1981).
Title: "Unemployment and Response: The Case of the Employment Guarantee Scheme
in India."
RECENT PUBLIC SERVICE TALKS
Participant Panel discussion with Naranayana Murthy, founder and retired CEO of
Infosys, India's second largest software company, as part of the events organized around
the presentation to him of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Meal in Global Innovation,
April 12, 2017.
“Effective Active Learning Technologies” Active Learning Space Series, Learning
Design and Technology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia, April 1,
2016
“Pakistan: Our Ambiguous Ally in the Most Dangerous Region of the World.” Lecture
given to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia, April 11,
2013.
“U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan” Flash Seminar, University of Virginia, April
14, 2013.
India’s Changing Democracy: Does Decentering Politics Lead to Better Representation
or Stalement?” presented to India research seminar, School of Architecture, March 29,
2013.
“Culture, Interests, and Key Issues in India’s Foreign Policy” Lecture given to the
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia, April 11, 2012.
“Fictitious-Decommodification, Fair Trade, and ‘Black Gold’” presentation to the UVA
Food Collaborative, April 19, 2011.
Participant, Panel on Religion, Security, and Multi-Faith Cooperation along the
Afghanistan-Pakistan Border: Implications and Prospects,” Center for South Asian
Studies, University of Virginia, March 3, 2011.
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“Anti-Americanism and Pakistan’s Uneasy Alliance with the United States” presentation
to meeting organized by the Pakistani Students League, University of Virginia, March 24,
2011
“Political Economy of India’s Capital Market Reforms,” Global Development
Organization, University of Virginia, October 25, 2010.
“India’s Democracy: Origins and Challenges,” presentation to 50 high school teachers,
University of Virginia, Center for Continuing Education, March 20, 2010.
“Four Important Questions About Pakistan and U.S. Foreign Policy,” presentation to 200
high school students from four high schools at the Martin Luther King Center for
Performance, Charlottesville, VA, March 1, 2010.
Interview, Coy Barefoot Radio Show, WINA, 1070 AM, February 12, 2010.
American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Fellows Conference, January 8, 2010
American Institute of Indian Studies Workshop “Turning a Dissertation into a Book”
October 21-22, 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI.
“The Challenge of Militant Terrorism in Pakistan,” presentation to GDO Workshop,
April 13, 2009.
Presentation “Thinking Through Mumbai: Panel and Workshop,” University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA, December 3, 2009.
Radio interviews WCHV Charlottesville, 3/27/08, and 8/19/08.
Radio interview WINA 4/22/08.
Interviewed on “Evening Edition” an hour-long news show with audience call-ins,
November 30, 2004
Interview with Dirk Van for “First Light” radio program syndicated on NBC Westwood
Radio, June 3, 2002.
Interview with WRVA news radio, Richmond, January 9, 2002.
Interview on India-Pakistani relations with WRVA news radio, Richmond, VA, January
8, 2002. Interview later played on the Virginia News Network.
Interview on situation in Afghanistan on Mitch Abom Show nationally syndicated by
ABC radio. November 15, 2001.
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Interviewed on public radio station WVTF’s “Evening Edition”, an hour-long news show
with audience call-ins, November 13, 2001. Excerpts of the interview were played on
WVTF segments of “Morning Edition” November 14, 2001 at 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM.
Interview with WRVA, Richmond radio station, October 16, 2001.
Interview on current situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, WINA, Charlottesville Radio
Station, October 11, 2001.
"Precarious States and High Stakes: Pakistan and Afghanistan" talk given at Teach-in on
International Terrorism, sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies University
of
Virginia, October 9, 2001.
Organizer and moderator of panel on “International Terrorism, Islamic Fundamentalism
and the Predicament of Afghanistan and Pakistan: Diverse Perspectives”. Sponsored by
the Center for South Asian Studies, September 28, 2001.
“International Terrorism and Political Response in Pakistan and Afghanistan”. Talk
sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies University of Virginia, September 21,
2001.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
A. ACADEMIC COMMUNITY
Member, Editorial Board, Political Science Quarterly (2009 to date)
Member Editorial Board, Poverty and Public Policy (2008 to 2013)
Treasurer, American Institute of Indian Studies (2008 to 2014)
Member, American Institute of Indian Studies, Endowment Committee (2008 to
date)
Member of the Editorial Board of Governance and Public Policy (quarterly
journal published in Hyderabad India (2005 to date.)
Chair, American Political Science Task Force on “Difference and Inequality in
Developing Societies” 2003-2005).
Member, American Political Science Association’s Selection Committee, Gabriel
Almond Award for best dissertation in Comparative Politics (2003-04)
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Member, Association for Asian Studies’ Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize
Selection Committee for best English Language Book in South Asian Studies
(1998 to date, Committee Chair 2000-01)
Trustee, American Institute of Indian Studies (1996 to date)
Chair, Panel on “New Fellowships for non-Area Specialists” American Institute
of Indian Studies (2001).
Member, Finance Committee, American Institute of Indian Studies (2002 to 2005)
Member, Publications Committee, American Institute of Indian Studies (2001 to
date)
Member, Fellowship Selection Committee, American Institute of Indian
Studies, (1994-1996)
Reader, Woodrow Wilson Institute Fellowship Proposals (1994 to date)
Reviewer of articles for American Political Science Review, Perspectives on
Politics, World Politics, Comparative Politics, American Journal of Sociology,
American Journal of Political Science, Political Studies, Journal of Asian Studies,
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Governance, The Journal of Policy
Reform, Journal of Development Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Asian
Survey, World Development, Regulation and Development, Security Studies, and
Political Science Quarterly.
Reviewer of book-length manuscripts for Cambridge University Press, Stanford
University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Pennsylvania Press,
Routledge, and St. Martin’s Press.
Member of the editorial board of Annual Editions: Comparative Politics.
Responsibilities involved selection of articles for this annual volume oriented to
undergraduate classes in comparative politics (1987 to 2008)
Consultant, U.S. Agency for International Development, Democratic Pluralism
Initiative (1990)
"Economic Reform in the Soviet Union, China and India," talk given to students,
Charlottesville High School (April 14, 1990)
"Democracy and Development: The Case of India," Talk given to High School
Teachers, Charlottesville, VA (April 4, 1987)
B. UNIVERSITY
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Member, Yamuna River Project Council (2016 to date)
Member, New Learning Technologies Committee (2016 to date)
Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Nominating Committee 2014-15; member of
the committee from 2013-14 to date
Search Committee, Global Development Studies (2012-13)
Member, Vice Provost Committee to Explore Establishing a Study Abroad
Program in India (Spring 2013)
Member, Global Development Studies Faculty Advisory Board (2008 to date)
Chair, Selection Committee for Director, Center for South Asia (2004)
Acting Director, Center for South Asian Studies (2003 -2004)
Member, Program Review Committee for the Department of Asian and Middle
Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia, 1999-2000.
Member, University of Virginia Commission on Public Service and Outreach,
Chair of the Exploratory Group on Volunteer Service, 1999-2000
Member, Program Review Committee for the McIntire School of Commerce,
University of Virginia, 1998-99.
Core Faculty Member, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia
(1986 to date) [Associate Chair (1990-91); Chair of Curriculum Committee
(1995 to date, Co-chair of Fundraising Committee (1995 to date), member Library
Committee, (1995 to date), Chair, Center for South Asian Studies Evaluation
Committee (1996), Member CSAS FLAS Fellowship Selection Committee (1987-
91, 1994-98, 2000-07, 2009-10)
Member, University Library Committee (1997-2000).
Member, Dean’s Planning Committee for the Division of Asian and Middle
Eastern Languages and Culture, University of Virginia (1997-98)
Chair, Selection Committee to appoint Visiting Lecture in International Business
specializing in South Asia. (Position is jointly funded by Center for South
Asian Studies an the McIntire School of Business) (1996)
University Representative, Board of Madison House, Office of Volunteer
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Community Service for the University of Virginia, (1995-2000); Co-Chair of the
Board of Directors (1999-2000), Secretary of Madison House, (1998-1999)
Administrator, Taraknath Das Foundation Fund, University of Virginia (1987 to
date)
Member, Search Committee for Lecturer in Hindi (1996-97)
Organizer, visit to the University of the Honorable Naresh Chandra, Ambassador
of India to the United States, (February 5, 1997)
Faculty Associate for Advising first and second year students (1990 to May 1996)
Member of dean's committee to select recipients of Weedon Foundation awards to
scholars in Asian Studies (1991 to 1995)
Organizer, visit to the University of the Honorable Abida Hussain, Ambassador of
Pakistan to the United States, (February 4, 1992)
Organizer, speech and reception of the Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy
of Pakistan (April 17, 1991)
Organizer, visit to the University of the Honorable Abid Hussain, Ambassador of
India to the United States (October 8, 1990)
A. DEPARTMENT
Member, Chair’s Advisory Board (2016-17 and 2012-14)
Director Undergraduate Programs (2013 to date)
Chair, Charles H. Koch Award Selection Committee (2013 to date)
Member, Comparative Politics Search Committee (2015-16)
Member, Tenure Review Committee (2014-15)
Departmental Peer Review Committee (2012 to 2013)
Graduate Admissions Committee (2012-13)
Member, Third Year Review Committee (2010-11)
Chair, Third Year Review Committee (2009-10)
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Director, Department of Politics Honors Program (2001 to 2009)
Member, Chair’s Advisory Board, Department of Politics (2004 to 2007)
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee for Consideration of making a tenure-track offer to
Rina Williams (2006-7)
Co-chair, Department of Politics, Comparative Politics Self-study group (1996-
2004. 2009-10)
Member, Committee on Departmental Governance (2003-04)
Member, Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (2002-04)
Associate Chair, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, (1997 to 2000)
Organizer of first Rowland Egger Lecture (1997)
Member, Departmental Chair Search Committee (1996-97)
Member, Search Committee for position in American Political Behavior (1996-7)
Member, Graduate Committee (1996- to date)
Chair, Comparative Politics/Western Europe Faculty Search Committee
(1995-96)
Associate Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Government and Foreign
Affairs (1988 to 1996)
Member, Graduate Review Committee, (1994-5)
Chair, Departmental Assessment Committee (1993-4)
Member, Departmental Chair Selection Committee, (1993)
Member, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, Middle East
Search Committee (1993-94)
Member Computer Committee, Department of Government and Foreign
Affairs, University of Virginia (1987 to 1990)
Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Government and
Foreign Affairs (1989 to date)
Member, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, Middle East
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Faculty Search Committee (1991-92)
Member, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, Ad Hoc
Committee on Governance (1991)
Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs,
University of Virginia (1987-91, 1994 to date)
Member, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, Soviet Politics Faculty
Search Committee (1990-91)
Member, Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, Department of
Government and Foreign Affairs (1986-88, 1989-1990)
Member, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, Japanese
Politics Faculty Search Committee (1989-90)
LANGUAGES
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