Faculty - India China Institute

Faculty Advisory Committee
Past Members & Ex Officio
Faculty Affiliates
Faculty Grant Recipients

Faculty Advisory Committee

Sareeta Amrute

Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management

The New School for Social Research

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Ying CHEN

Associate Professor of Economics

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Ying Chen

Ying Chen is Assistant Professor of Economics at the New School and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work mainly explores the contradictions within capitalism and how they exhibit themselves. Topics she has studied include economic development, labor, and climate change, with a special focus on the global south. She has published in journals including Environment and Development Economics, Economics and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Labor and Society, Review of Radical Political Economics, International Review of Applied Economics, and so on.

Mark Larrimore

Associate Professor, Religion

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

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Miodrag Mitrasinovic

Professor of Architecture and Urbanism Parsons School of Design

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Miodrag Mitrasinovic

Miodrag Mitrašinović is an architect, urbanist, author, and Professor of Urbanism and Architecture at Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York City. He is the editor of Concurrent Urbanities: Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion (Routledge 2015), co-editor of Travel, Space, Architecture (with Jilly Traganou, Ashgate/Routledge 2009), and author of Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space (Ashgate/Routledge 2006). Professor Mitrašinović’s scholarly work focuses on two parallel and complementary lines of inquiry. First, on the role design plays as an agent of social and political change, and as catalyst for critical urban transformations; his research argues for the centrality of designing in the conceptualization, production, and representation of democratic and participatory urban space. Secondly, his work also focuses on the generative capacity and infrastructural dimensions of public space specifically at the intersections of public policy, urban and public design, and processes of privatization of public resources. His first two books received grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in 2004 and 2006 respectively. He has served in a variety of scholarly, professional and editorial roles. His professional and scholarly work has been published internationally.

Professor Mitrašinović holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Florida at Gainesville (1998), U.S.A.; MArch from The Berlage Institute, the Netherlands (1994); and Dipl. Ing. Arch. Diploma from the University of Belgrade, Serbia (1992). Before joining The New School in 2005, he held teaching and research appointments at the University of Texas at Austin (1998-2005, with tenure), at the University of Florida at Gainesville (1995-96 and 1997-98), and at Kyoto University in Japan (1996-97). In 2012, he completed the academic leadership program at Harvard University, the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE).

Mitrašinović regularly lectures on his scholarly work as well as on his work as design educator and academic leader; he also often takes part in academic and professional panels, conferences and studio reviews.

Nidhi Srinivas

Associate Professor of Management

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Nidhi Srinivas

Nidhi Srinivas is Associate Professor of Management at Milano School
of Policy, Management, and Environment. His research centers on social
innovation and postcolonial studies, mobilizing critical theory to
study a variety of topics, including management history, international
development, mutual aid, ecological politics and civic design. He
publishes widely and has received several fellowships, including from
the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Erasmus Mundus, and the
BRICS policy center. He has also served as visiting professor at
different institutions, including the ITC-ILO, Turin; Hitotsubashi
University, Tokyo; Sao Paulo School of Business Administration; and
the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and been a Scholar in
Residence at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His book
Against NGOs: A critical perspective on Civil Society, Management and
Development was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Faculty Affiliates

Petya Andreeva

Assistant Professor of Asian Art and Design History

Parsons School of Design

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Jonathan Bach

Professor, Global Studies

Schools of Public Engagement

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Sandipto Dasgupta

Assistant Professor of Politics

The New School for Social Research

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Federico Finchelstein

Professor of History

The New School for Social Research

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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Professor of International Affairs

Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs

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Victoria Hattam

Professor of Politics

The New School for Social Research

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Jack Jin Gary Lee

Assistant Professor of Sociology

The New School for Social Research

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Brian McGrath

Professor of Urban Design,

Parsons School of Design

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Timon McPhearson

Associate Professor, Urban Ecology

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

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Christina Moon

Associate Professor, Fashion Studies

Parson School of Design

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Emma Park

Assistant Professor, History
New School for Social Research and Lang College of Liberal Arts

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Emma Park

Emma Park is also Co-Director of Capitalism Studies at The New School, where she teach courses on modern Africa, science and technology, global histories of capitalism, and the history of “development.” Her current research uses infrastructure development projects to explore transformations in capitalism and state-craft, and she mobilizes an ethnographically-informed reading of the cultural politics of infrastructures and work from the twentieth-century through to the present. She is currently revising her dissertation into a book manuscript tentatively entitled: Infrastructural Attachments: Technologies, Mobility, and the Tensions of Home in Colonial and Postcolonial Kenya. Through an exploration of three infrastructures ‘in the making’ —roads, radio, and Kenya’s now-famed telephonic banking service, M-PESA—she argues that infrastructures in Kenya have been deeply charged cultural, political, and economic objects. She has a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Lei PING

Associate Professor of Chinese Studies

The New School

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Latha Poonamallee

Associate Professor of Management and Social Innovation
Chair of Management Programs, Schools of Public Engagement

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Latha Poonamallee

Dr. Poonamallee is a tenured Associate Professor of Management & Social Innovation and Chair of Management at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment, and University Faculty Fellow at The New School.
Dr. Poonamallee received her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio and has presented and published her award-winning research on change management, leadership, and social innovation/entrepreneurship in numerous international conferences and journals.

She is currently working on two key projects.

“Harnessing Technology Innovation for Social Impact,” a book currently contract with Palgrave Macmillan and slated to be published in 2020.
Research on how mindfulness and other contemplative approaches can be utilized to develop prosocial mental models and behaviors and leadership skills to advance a more just, prosperous, and sustainable world.

In May 2019, she was appointed as Editor in Chief of the Society of Advancement of Management Journal, a preeminent journal that has been published for over 75 years. She also received a Fulbright Scholarship to assist the Botswana government, USAID, and Botswana Civil Society in developing a nation-wide social entrepreneurship ecosystem.

She is also the co-founder and Chairperson of In-Med Prognostics, a health tech firm that uses AI and imaging technologies to develop brain health predictive analytics. This firm has received accolades such as the Falling Walls Conference (Germany), BIRAC grant (Government of India grant), and presented scientific papers in the European Radiology Society Conference in Vienna.

Antina von Schnitzler

Associate Professor, International Affairs

Schools of Public Engagement

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Anezka Sebek

Associate Professor of Media Design

Parsons School of Design

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Georgia (Jilly) Traganou

Professor, Spatial Design Studies

Parsons School of Design

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Faculty Grant Recipients

Faculty Curricular Development Grant Recipients (2023-2025)

Alexandra Délano Alonso

Associate Professor, Global Studies

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

“Migrant Deaths: Public Grief and Political Transformation”

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Siddhartha Deb

Associate Professor, Literary Studies

Schools of Public Engagement

“The New Postcolonial Novel”

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Faculty Research Grant Recipients (2018-2020)

Jaskiran Dhillon

Associate Professor, Global Studies

Schools of Public Engagement

“Resurgence, Resistance, and anti-Colonial Youth Politics in Global Environmental Justice”

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Thao LAM

Assistant Professor, Fine Arts

Parsons School of Design

“Experimental Documentary Investigating International, Transnational, Technological and Ecological Relations at the India/China Border”

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Lana Lin

Associate Professor, Film Theory and Digital Cinema

Schools of Public Engagement

“Experimental Documentary Investigating International, Transnational, Technological and Ecological Relations at the India/China Border”

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Christina Moon

Assistant Professor, Fashion Studies

Parsons School of Design

“Ethnographic Study of Korean Fast Fashion Families Involved in Global Supply Chains”

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Latha Poonamallee

Associate Professor, Management and Social Innovation

Schools of Public Engagement

“Social-technological Innovation and Impact Entrepreneurship Dynamics in India Compared to the US”

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Shelley Wyant

School of Drama

College of Performing Arts

New theatrical presentation based on Bertolt Brecht’s “Good Person of Szechwan”

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Faculty Curriculum Development Grant Recipients (2018-2020)

Alexandra Délano Alonso

Associate Professor, Global Studies (Chair)

Schools of Public Engagement and Lang College of Liberal Arts

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Rachel Heiman

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

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Rafi Youatt

Associate Professor, Politics

The New School for Social Research

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ICI Pandemic Worlds Research Seminar Fellows (2020-2021)

Faculty Fellows

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Petya Andreeva

Assistant Professor of Asian Art and Design,

Parsons School of Design

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Michael A Cohen

Director of the PhD in Public and Urban Policy Program at the Milano School of Policy and Environment

Professor of International Affairs,

Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs

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Federico Finchelstein

Professor of History,

The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College

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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Professor of International Affairs

Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs

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Brian McGrath

Professor of Urban Design,

Parsons School of Design

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Anezka Sebek

Associate Professor of Media Design

Parsons School of Design

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Nidhi Srinivas

Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management,

Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment

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Trebor Scholz

Associate Professor of Culture and Media,

Schools of Public Engagement

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