Shifting Geographies of Expertise and Policymaking
The Shifting Geographies of Expertise and Policymaking is our newest fellowship and international research seminar. This program, which will be held in the 2021-22 academic year, brings together a cohort of 12 scholars and practitioners from India, China, and elsewhere. Research topics cover a wide range of issues, including energy, public health, education, housing, pandemic policy responses, rural and urban development, and others.
Rohit Chandra
Assistant Professor IIT-Delhi
School of Public Policy
Visiting Fellow
Centre for Policy Research
Rohit Chandra
Ka-Kin Cheuk
Postdoctoral Fellow
Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies
Chao Center for Asian Studies
Rice University
Ka-Kin Cheuk
Ka-Kin Cheuk is the Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies at the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. His research revolves around diaspora, trade, migration, transnationalism, mobility governance, pedagogy in the pandemic time, and inter-Asian connections, with geographic focuses on China, Hong Kong, and India. His recent publications include “Transient Migrants at the Crossroads of China’s Global Future” (Journal of Transient Migration 3:1, 2019), “Funny Money Circulation and Fabric Exports From China to Dubai Through Indian Trading Networks” (American Behavioral Scientist 2021), “Teaching Ethnographic Research Methods in the time of COVID-19” (Teaching and Learning Anthropology 4:1, 2021), and “Making Mumbai (in China)” (Bombay Brokers, Duke University Press, 2021). Trained as an anthropologist, Dr. Cheuk has conducted fieldwork for over a decade on Sikh diaspora in Hong Kong and on Indian traders in southeast China. He completed his DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He previously held teaching and research positions at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Universiteit Leiden, and NYU Shanghai.
Thresia CU
Senior Fellow (Asia- Pacific Observatory, WHO)
Institute of Chinese Studies
Honorary Fellow
Institute of Public Health, Bangalore
Thresia CU
Ceren Ergenc
Associate Professor
Department of China Studies
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Ceren Ergenc
Loraine Kennedy
CNRS Research Director
Member of the Center for South Asian Studies (CEIAS)
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Loraine Kennedy
Yifei LI
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies
NYU Shanghai
Assistant Professor
Global Network
New York University
Yifei LI
Avinash Madhale
Program Coordinator
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Avinash Madhale
Avinash Madhale is a Senior Program Coordinator at Transforming M Ward Programme of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and is a member of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Network, India. He has been facilitating participatory budgeting in Pune and helping citizens engage in city governance processes since 2007. Dr. Madhale has been working as a political communication expert in the area of sustainable urban transportation, water & sanitation, school education, and informal economy with a focus on execution of Street Vendors Promotion and Regulation of Livelihood Act 2014. He also served as International Relations Officer of the Asia Link Project between University of Pune and Hunan Normal University, China. In 2009 he completed his advanced Training program in Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education institutions, supported by SIDA and jointly hosted by Stockholm Resilience Centre, Uppsala University, Chalmers University (Sweden), and Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand). Dr. Madhale received his Ph.D. from the Savitribai Phule Pune University(former UoP). His thesis is titled “Politics of Participation and Policies of Urban Governance: Cases of Participatory Processes in Urban India.”
Xufei Ren
Professor
Sociology and Global Urban Studies
Michigan State University
Xufei Ren
Kesava Chandra Varigonda
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Asia Research Institute (ARI)
National University of Singapore
Kesava Chandra Varigonda
Yang ZHAN
Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Social Sciences
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yang ZHAN
Wenjuan Zhang
Associate Professor
Jindal Global Law School
Executive Director
Center for India-China Studies
Wenjuan Zhang
Yu ZHOU
Professor
Department of Geography
Vassar College
Yu ZHOU
Yu ZHOU is a professor of Geography at Vassar College. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University and a Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research has been in the areas of China’s high-tech innovation, including information communication and biomedical sectors, and urban sustainability programs in China. Dr. Zhou is the author of the book The Inside Story of China’s High-tech Industry: Making Silicon Valley in Beijing (Rowman and Littlefield 2008), and the lead editor of China as Innovation Nation (Oxford University Press 2016), in addition to many academic journal publications in Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Economic Geography, Global networks, World Development, among others. She is the principal investigator in multiple grants from NSF, Asian Network, Lincoln Institute, Luce Foundation, and Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. She has been selected as one of the Public Intellectual Fellows by the National Committee of United States-China Relations. She also published blog entries in Huffington Post, Monkey Cage, Common Dreams, China Beat, ChinaAnalysis, etc. Dr. Zhou has been interviewed by the New York Times and Washington Post, among others.
Visiting Scholars
The India China Institute hosts a number of distinguished visiting scholars from India and China to support the scholars’ academic advancement, and contribute to the intellectual discourse at the Institute through their public engagement.
The Visiting Scholars program was funded by a generous gift from The Starr Foundation.
Current Visiting Scholars
Hai ZHANG
Photographer
Hai ZHANG
Past Visiting Scholars
Zhiyuan CUI
Professor, School of Public Policy and Management
Tsinghua University, Beijing
Zhiyuan CUI
Cui Zhiyuan was a Visiting Scholar at ICI in 2014. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science/Political Economy from the University of Chicago in 1995. Dr. Cui was selected as a Fellow of The Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin in 2004 and was later the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cornell University Law School. His publications include The Dilemma of the Invisible Hand Paradigm (1999, Economic Science Publisher, Beijing); The Second Thought Liberalization Movement and Institutional Innovation (Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1997), and Whither China? (Seoul, 2003).
Qin GAO
Professor of Social Policy and Social Work
Columbia University
Qin GAO
Qin Gao was a Visiting Scholar at ICI in 2014. She is founding director of Columbia University’s China Center for Social Policy. At the time of her fellowship she was Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University in New York. Her research focuses on the Chinese social benefit system in transition and its impact on poverty, income inequality, and family economic and subjective well-being and cross-national comparative social policy analysis among China, South Korea and Vietnam. Dr. Gao has published in the China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Review of Income and Wealth, and Social Service Review, among others. Her work has been supported by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, the Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation, the Lois and Samuel Silberman Fund, and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, among others.
Prem Shankar Jha
Journalist, India
Prem Shankar Jha
Journalist, India
Prem Shankar Jha was a Visiting Fellow in 2012. He is a noted analyst and commentator, is a former editor of and contributor to The Hindu, The Hindustan Times, The Economic Times, The Financial Express and The Times of India. Additionally, from the years 1986-1990, he wrote as the India correspondent for The Economist. In 1990, he served as Information Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, V.P. Singh. Mr. Jha has taught at the Indian Institute of Management and the University of Virginia, and has been a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard. He is the author of several books including, The Perilous Road to the Market: The Political Economy of Reform in Russia, India and China (Pluto Press, 2003); Kashmir 1947: The Origins of a Dispute (Oxford University Press, 2003); and most recently, The Twilight of the Nation State: Globalisation, Chaos and War, with a forward by Eric Hobsbawm (Sage Press, 2006). He is a regular columnist with several leading publications and currently serves as the Indian Economy Chair at the Sciences-Po, Paris.
LI Bo
Director
Friends of Nature, China
LI Bo
Director
Friends of Nature, China
LI Bo was a Visiting Scholar in 2013. He has a lifetime of experience researching the intersection of environment and economics. Mr. Li grew up in Dali, home to the Bai ethnic group in Yunnan Province. He has been involved in the work of diverse NGOs with different missions: rural livelihoods, indigenous knowledge, natural resource management and world heritage management in Yunnan, community-based tourism, biodiversity conservation, and NGO-led advocacy for transparent dam site decision making in southwest China. Mr. Li completed his MS in natural resources management at Cornell University in 2001. He spent the next five years living with a Tibetan community in northwest Yunnan within the Three Parallel River (Yangtze, Mekong, Salween) World Heritage Site. This experience exposed him to issues of community subsistence and sacred land culture, world heritage management and tourism development, village democracy, and environmental justice in China’s vast western provinces. Mr. Li currently works part-time with the Stockholm Environmental Institute-Asia (SEI-Asia) in Bangkok; as a Research Associate at the Center for Human and Economics Development Studies at Peking University; and as an Adjunct Researcher of environmental justice at the Institute of Environmental Laws at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, Central China. Mr. Li was an India China Fellow from 2008-10.
Manoranjan Mohanty
Distinguished Faculty
Center for Social Development, New Delhi
Manoranjan Mohanty
Manoranjan Mohanty was a Visiting Scholar at ICI in 2014. At the time of his fellowship he was Durgabai Deshmukh Professor of Social Development at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi and Co-chair of the Institute of Chinese Studies. He has been invited to serve as a visiting professor at many institutions in India and abroad including University of California, Berkeley, Oxford University and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and University of California, Santa Barbara. A founder of the China Study Group, Dr. Mohanty is on the editorial board of China Report, China Quarterly and also serves as editor of the journal, Social Change. He is Emeritus Chairperson of the Indian Congress of Asian and Pacific Studies and the president and founder of Orissa Gabeshana Chakra, a research forum devoted to development issues. A founding member of the People’s Union for Democratic Rights, he is President of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy.
Partha Mukhopadhyay
Senior Fellow,
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Partha Mukhopadhyay
Partha Mukhopadhyay was one of the inaugural Fellows of the India China Institute in 2015. He was part of the founding team at the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), focusing on private participation in infrastructure. He has been with the Export Import Bank of India, and with the World Bank in Washington. He was on the faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur and the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi. Most recently, he was chair of the Working Group on Migration, Government of India and member of the High Level Railway Restructuring Committee, Ministry of Railways and of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. He has previously been associated with the Committee on Allocation of Natural Resources and with the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Infrastructure. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Council of LIRNEasia, Colombo. He received his PhD in economics from New York University and an MA and MPhil from the Delhi School of Economics. His research interests are in urbanisation, infrastructure, and the development paths of India and China.
Sukh Deo Muni
Distinguished Fellow
Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi
Sukh Deo Muni
Distinguished Fellow
Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi
Professor S.D. Muni was a Visiting Fellow in 2013. He is a member of Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses’s Executive Council in New Delhi. He was India’s Special Envoy to Southeast Asian countries on UN Security Council Reforms (2005-06) and served as India’s Ambassador to Laos (1997-1999). He retired from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2006 after 33 years of service where he held the prestigious Appadorai Chair of International Relations and Area Studies. He was the founder editor of Indian Foreign Affairs Journal (2005-2008, Cambridge University Press, India) and South Asia Journal (1990-94, Sage India). He is also affiliated with the Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, and Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne, Australia, as a Fellow. He served the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, as Director of Research (2006-2007). A founder Executive Member of the Regional Centre of Strategic Studies, Colombo, Professor Muni was nominated to India’s first National Security Advisory Board in 1990-91. He has been an Executive member of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. His recent publications include The Emerging Dimension of SAARC (New Delhi, 2010); India’s Foreign Policy: The Democracy Factor, (New Delhi, 2009); and India and China: The Next Decade (New Delhi, 2009.)
Luna Ranjit
Co-founder, Adhikaar, New York
Luna Ranjit
Luna is Co-founder of Adihikaar, a social justice organization that served and organized Nepali-speaking immigrant communities and the New York Healthy Nail Salons Coalition, Luna is committed to building the power of marginalized communities. As a visiting fellow at ICI, she documented her experience as the co-founder and former Executive Director of Adhikaar, and conducted research on citizenship, movement of people, and equity. Her earlier groundbreaking work has been recognized by many community organizations and elected officials, including Congressman Joseph Crowley and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. In 2016, she received the Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize created to support and inspire innovative social change makers throughout the world. She holds an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and a BA from Grinnell College. She was a Visiting Scholar at ICI in 2017.
SUN Zhe
Assistant Researcher, Economic Sociology
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
SUN Zhe
Dr. Sun Zhe was a visiting scholar at ICI in 2018. He earned his PhD in E.N.S Paris-Saclay with a French dissertation on the housing market and homeowner society in Shanghai. He studies the rental housing market, tenants groups, and other relevant urban issues such as the informal economy, gentrification and gated-community.
Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vamsi Vakulabharanam was a Visiting Scholar at ICI in 2014 and 2013. Previously, he was Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Hyderabad in India. He has focused his research on inequality in the contemporary economies of India and China. Specifically, he has worked on globalization and agrarian change in India, and consumption and wealth inequality during the period of economic reforms. He has also worked on patterns of workforce development in China during the last decade. His research on India has mainly focused on the political economy of the agrarian crisis in India during and after the 1990s. Until recently, Dr. Vakulabharanam was an assistant professor of economics at Queens College of the City University of New York. Vamsi has published his work in academic journals, including Journal of Development Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Radical Political Economics, and Ethics and Economics. His work on agriculture is being published as a book in his native language, Telugu.
Fulong Wu
Professor of Planning
University College London
Fulong WU
Wu Fulong was a Visiting Scholar at ICI in 2015. His research includes China’s urban development and planning and its social and sustainable challenges. He has completed a book Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China (Routledge 2015). He is co-editor of Restructuring the Chinese City (Routledge, 2005), Marginalization in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), International Perspectives on Suburbanization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and Rural Migrants in Urban China (Routledge, 2013), editor of Globalization and the Chinese City (Routledge, 2006), China’s Emerging Cities (Routledge, 2007), and co-author of Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State, Market, and Space (Routledge, 2007), and China’s Urban Poverty (Edward Elgar, 2010).
YAO Yang
Professor, Economics
Peking University
YAO Yang
Professor, Economics
Peking University
Yao Yang was a Visiting Fellow in 2012. He is also Dean of National School of Development, and Director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University. He has been following issues of land acquisition, ownership transformation, and migration in China for the past decade. Dr. Yao has taught economics at various institutions in China, Japan, and the United States. In addition, he has served as a consultant to the World Bank and participated in numerous contemporary debates about China’s economic reform. Dr. Yao writes widely in the popular and academic press in China and is a respected authority on rural development.
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Post Docs
Current Postdoctoral Fellow
Keren Zhu
Postdoctoral Fellow, Public Policy
Pardee RAND Graduate School
Keren Zhu
Visiting Postdoc Fellow, Pardee RAND Graduate School.
Prior to this, Keren was a Global China Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. She holds a B.A. in English from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an M.Sc. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research focuses on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), global infrastructure, international development, China-Global South relations, and program evaluation. She has worked as a researcher at the RAND Corporation in the United States, BRI international cooperation and policy advisory in China, and public-private partnerships at the International Labor Organization. Keren is working on her book project on the impact of China-financed infrastructure megaprojects on the Global South, which was recently awarded the Smith Richardson Strategy and Policy Fellowship. We are very pleased to welcome Keren to our Institute.
Past Postdoctoral Fellows
Sarandha Jain
Postdoctoral Fellow, Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Columbia University
Sarandha Jain
Visiting Postdoc Fellow, Columbia University.
Sarandha Jain is a socio-cultural and political anthropologist, who recently completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Studying the multi-nodal network of petroleum manufacturing, circulation, and use in India, her research examines petroleum as an infrastructure for the Indian state and society. To understand the politics of petroleum in the everyday, she studies the modes of government, forms of sociality, and constellations of power petroleum produces and is produced by, both in its manufacturing and its use. Focusing on the oil-mediated relationship between the Indian state and citizens, Sarandha investigates how oil becomes government but also escapes government. She explores how the Indian state distributes itself into citizens’ lives via petroleum products, and then what makes petroleum products leak out of the logics of government and capital, be apprehended in unintended ways, and foster alternate networks of power. Her previous work was on rivers, riverine communities, and the Indian state. At large, she is interested in unravelling structures of power, how they are contested in diverse settings, and how this negotiation plays out over the bodies of fluvial substances (rivers, petroleum) that get mired in struggles and negotiations, owing to the affordances they harbor.
Georgina Drew
Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology and Development Studies
The University of Adelaide
Georgina Drew
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Development Studies University of Adelaide
She has been widely published in scholarly outlets, including American Anthropologist, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, and South Asia.
Pasang Sherpa
Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology
Pacific Lutheran University
Pasang Sherpa
Visiting Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran Universitiy.
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Ph.D., is an anthropologist from Nepal. Her research areas include climate change, Indigeneity and the Sherpa diaspora.
She is also affiliated with the South Asia Center of the University of Washington. She served as program director for their Nepal Studies Initiative.
Previously, she was a lecturer in the department of anthropology at Penn State University and a postdoctoral fellow at The New School. She was on-site faculty in India for University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt in the Himalayas program.
She is a fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) and the recipient of the 2014 Senior Fellowship award from the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS). She is a member of the Science, Technology, and Innovation Committee (2019-2021) of the Non-Resident Nepali Association, National Coordination Council of USA. She is a member of the Mountain Spirit (MS), a community led organization dedicated for the wellbeing of mountain communities in Nepal. She currently serves on the advisory board of The Juniper Fund, which supports families and communities impacted by the loss of high-altitude workers on the mountains.
China India Scholar-Leaders
The China India Scholar-Leaders Initiative is made possible by a generous grant from Ford Foundation. It allows two cohorts of a two-year fellowship to support 16 promising, young scholar-leaders who use interdisciplinary research methods to grapple with complex questions related to prosperity and inequality in India and China, and who want to expand their knowledge and research capacities in this area. It seeks to foster the emerging field of India China Studies by supporting a new generation of Scholar-Leaders who are committed to producing critical new research, teaching, and course development. This collaborative initiative involves partnerships with select scholars and institutions, including Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Centre for Policy Research in India, the National Development School at Peking University in China, and the Global Studies program at The New School. Fellows will have the opportunity to engage in a transboundary and interdisciplinary collaboration and conduct field work in India and China to advance their research projects. This program was made possible by a generous grant from the Ford Foundation.
2018-2020
Tshering Chonzom Bhutia
Advisor, Unit for International Cooperation (UIC), National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA)
Associate Editor, India Quarterly, Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA)
Tshering Chonzom Bhutia
Associate Fellow
Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi
Tshering Chonzom Bhutia received her PhD in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2014. She also holds an MPhil in Chinese Studies and an MA in Politics, also from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research focuses on the Sino-Tibetan dialogue process; the political economy of Chinese development policies in Tibet (including Tibet and the Belt and Road Initiative); domestic (minority) sources of China’s foreign policy; Tibet factor in India-China relations & Tibetan question in India; Tibetan diaspora politics and post-14th Dalai Lama contingencies. She completed a major Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) funded research project comparing the Indian and Chinese government’s minority policies.
Anand Parappadi Krishnan
Visiting Associate Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
Anand Parappadi Krishnan
Research Associate
Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
Anand P. Krishnan received his MPhil and PhD degrees in Chinese Politics from the Centre for East Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2017. His doctoral thesis is titled “Market Dynamics and State Responses in China: Social Welfare and Industrial Workers, 1987-2008”. His Master’s thesis is titled “The Concept of Socialist Market Economy: A Study of the Chinese Discourse during the Deng Period.” He completed his MA in Politics (with specialization in International Relations) from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2006. Dr. Krishnan also completed a two-year India-China comparative project awarded by the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) on Labour and Social Security in Small and Medium Enterprises in Mumbai and Wenzhou, in August 2016. His areas of interest include labor relations in developing countries, informal work, interfaces of labor and urban, and welfare.
LIU Peng
Associate Professor, Center for China’s Neighbor Diplomacy Studies, Yunnan University
LIU Peng
Associate Professor, International Studies
Yunnan University
Liu Peng is Associate Professor of School of International Studies at Yunnan University and Deputy Director of International Exchange and Cooperation Office, also at Yunnan University. He was formerly Associate Professor at the Research Institute for Indian Ocean Economies (RIIO), Yunnan University of Finance & Economics. He holds a PhD from the School of International Studies, Jinan University. He is also a certified Economic Analyst in banking, and was a visiting scholar at Washington University in St. Louis (2015-2016). His research interests include Sino-India relations; the Indian Ocean region; and overseas Chinese. His research papers have been published in journals both in Chinese and English, and he has also translated more than ten papers from English into Chinese. Dr. Liu is currently translating The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Vijayanka Nair
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University
Vijayanka Nair
Fellow, Center for the Humanities
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vijayanka Nair received her PhD in Anthropology from New York University in 2018 (January 22). She holds an MPhil in Social Anthropological Analysis from the University of Cambridge, as well as an MA in Sociology and a BA in Philosophy from Delhi University. Dr. Nair’s research ethnographically examines large-scale, technology-driven governance experiments in contemporary South Asia and their sociopolitical implications. Her doctoral work focused on India’s Aadhaar (“foundation”) program—the world’s largest national biometrics-based ID system—and the ways in which it reconfigures the relationship between the state and the individual. Dr. Nair situates her work at the intersections of the anthropologies of the state, politics, ethics, personhood, and technology. Her publications include “An eye for an I: recording biometrics and reconsidering identity in postcolonial India” (forthcoming in Contemporary South Asia). Vijayanka’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council, among others.
Chandra Sen
Academic Councillor (IGNOU), Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi
Chandra Sen
PhD, Centre for East Asican Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Chandra Sen completed his PhD in International Studies from the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He also holds his MPhil and MA in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His research focuses on social and economic exclusion in China and India, with special reference to ethnic minorities of Sichuan, China, and Dalits of Uttar Pradesh, India. He has published his research in national and international Journals. He was awarded a research fellowship from the Indian Council for Social Science Research in 2015, and has also received Junior Research Fellowship in International Studies from the University Grants Commission of India.
Sophie Ping SUN
Institute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Sophie Ping SUN
Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Communication
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Sophie Ping Sun received her PhD from the School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 2016. She was a visiting scholar at Oxford University from 2015 to 2016. Her research interests are information and communication technologies; new media; and digital labour. Dr. Sun is especially interested in how technology and algorithms generate socio-technical and political valence in the digital economy. She was the winner of two Best Paper Awards at the International Communication Conference (ICA) and Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC). Her recent publications include Programming Practices of Chinese Code Farmers: Articulations, Technology, and Alternatives in China Perspective (2017), and Knowledge Workers, Identities, and Communication Practices: Understanding Code Farmers(co-authored with Michelangelo Magasic) in China in tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (2016). Dr. Sun currently resides in Beijing, China.
Wenjuan ZHENG
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Wenjuan ZHENG
Post-Doc, Civic Life of Cities Lab and China Program
Stanford University
Wenjuan Zheng received her PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York-The Graduate Center. She holds an MA in Sociology from Columbia University and a BS in City Studies and Environment Science from the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research focused on civil society, organizations and social change in China and India. She is currently Adjunct Professor at Queens College in New York City. Her publications include “Migration and Popular Resistance in Rural China: Wukan and Beyond” (co-authored with Lu, Yao and Huang, Wei in The China Quarterly, 2017), and “Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy Literature Review” (co-authored with Paul Ong and Karna Wong, Global Chinese Philanthropy Initiative, 2017).
2017-2019
Wenrui CHEN
Human Behavior and Cultural Strategist, Beijing
Wenrui CHEN
Human Behavior and Cultural Strategist
Beijing
Wenrui Chen received her PhD in Anthropology from New York University in 2015. She also holds an MA in Anthropology from New York University and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her research draws from two years of ethnographic fieldwork at the Beijing Family Therapy Center and explores the unique problems Chinese families face in contemporary China and the ramifications of learning to understand and manage familial problems in psychotherapeutic terms. She is currently an Independent Researcher and previously served as an Adjunct Instructor at Emmanuel College in Boston. She was awarded the Annette B. Weiner Fellowship in Cultural Anthropology from 2012-2013 and the New York University MacCracken Fellowship for Doctoral Students from 2008-2015.
Qudsiya Contractor
Independent scholar based in Goa. Previously Assistant Professor, TISS Mumbai and ISEC Bangalore
Qudsiya Contractor
Assistant Professor, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies
Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai
Qudsiya Contractor received her PhD in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai, in 2014. She also holds an MA from Tata and a BS from the University of Mumbai. Her research focused on spatial politics and urban marginality of Muslim slums in Mumbai. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany in 2015, and had a fellowship at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris, from 2009-2010. Her publications include “Kitchen Politics: Muslim Women, Caste and the Beef Ban in Mumbai,” in Anupama Rao (ed), The Difference of Caste. (Women Unlimited, forthcoming) and Uprooted Homes, Uprooted Lives – A Study on the Impact of Resettlement on a Slum Community in Mumbai, co-authored with Neha Madhiwala and Meena Gopal (CEHAT, 2006).
Aveivey Dahrii
Assistant Professor (Guest Faculty), Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Tetso College, Dimapur
Aveivey Dahrii
Assistant Professor
Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi
Aveivey Dahrii received her PhD from the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She also holds an MPhil from University of Delhi, an MA in sociology from Delhi School of Economics and a BA from University of Delhi. She had worked as a research consultant at Dr. Ambedkar Foundation, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (2016-17). She was awarded a study tour programme to the London School of Economics and Political Science, London in 2015, and the Dr. Ambedkar National Merit Award in 2016. She served as a consultant for the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India in 2015 and 2016. Her publications include “Julia Gillard’s China Policy: An Analysis” in Eurasia Review (2013) and “Muivah’s Intended Visit to Somdal Stirs up Demand for Nagalim” in Mainstream (2010).
Xiaowen HU
Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Yunnan University
Xiaowen HU
Associate Professor, International Relations
Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences in China
Xiaowen Hu is Associate Professor of School of International Studies, Yunnan University, and Associate Professor of the Institute for Indian Studies, also at Yunnan University. She received her PhD in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi in 2016. She also holds an MA in Southeast Asia Studies from Jinan University, China and a BA in Business Administration from the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, in Chengdu, China. Her research focuses on China’s and India’s think-tanks; India’s foreign policy; and China-India relations. She was recognized as an Outstanding Research Fellow there in 2011 and 2012, and she is currently leading the “Chinese Studies in Indian Think Tanks” project at the Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Yunnan Province. Her publications include “Promoting BRICS: The Role of China’s Think-Tanks” in China and the BRICS: Setting up a Different Kitchen (Pentagon Press, 2016) and “India-Myanmar relations after democratic reform of Myanmar” in Contemporary South Asian Countries (Social Sciences Academic Press, 2016).
Marina Kaneti
Assistant Professor and MPP Programme Co-Chair, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Marina Kaneti
Assistant Professor, International Relations
Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore
Marina Kaneti’s main specialization is in global politics and political theory, with a thematic focus on migration, state policies, and economic development. She received her PhD from the New School for Social Research in 2016; and was the recipient of the 2016 Hannah Arendt Dissertation Award. She also holds an MPhil in Political Theory from the New School, as well as MS in Social Enterprise Administration and BA in East Asian Studies from Columbia University. Dr. Kaneti accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Global Studies at the Grand Valley State University in West Michigan. Her current research is an examination of the intersection between trade agreements, migrants’ networks, and urbanization dynamics in the context of the Chinese New Silk Road, also known as the Belt-Road initiative. She will be spending the summer researching the “Belt” part of the Silk Road. Her most recent publications include “(Re)branding the State: Border Control and the Moral Imperative of State Sovereignty,” co-authored with Mariana Assis in Social Research (2016), and “Mêtis, Migrants, and the Autonomy of Migration” in Citizenship Studies (2015).
Joe Thomas Karackattu
Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
Faculty In-Charge, IIT Madras China Studies Centre
Joe Thomas Karackattu
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Professor Karackattu received his PhD in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India in 2012. He also holds an MPhil in Chinese Studies and an MA in Politics, both from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research focused on economic interdependence and vulnerability in recent Chinese-Taiwanese relations. Dr. Karackattu was a recipient of the Centenary Visiting Fellowship Award at the University of London in 2013 and the President’s Award from the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in 2011. His publications include “Assessing Sino-Indian Economic Relations in an Interdependence Framework: 1992-2008” in Economic and Political Studies (2015) and The Economic Partnership between India and Taiwan in a Post-ECFA Ecosystem (Springer, 2013).
Yang LU
Research Fellow, Institute of the Belt and Road Initiative
Resident Scholar at Carnegie Tsinghua Center, Tsinghua University
Associate Member, Institute of South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Yang LU
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of International Relations,
Tsinghua University, Beijing
Yang Lu is a She was previously at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where she was a Lecturer and Senior Research Assistant in the Department of Political Science, from 2011-1015. In 2014, Dr. Lu received her PhD in Political Science from the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Heidelberg. During her doctoral study, she received a research assistantship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and was awarded Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (2011). She was a visiting scholar at the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2013) and a former “Emerging Scholars on India China Studies (2015)” with the India China Institute at The New School. Dr. Lu’s research interest mainly focuses on South Asia, working on Indian foreign policy, China’s relations with South Asia, South Asian security and regional cooperation and ethno-national movements in Pakistan. She is the author of China-India Relations in the Contemporary World: Dynamics of National Interest and Identity (Routledge, 2017). Her articles on various aspects of China and South Asian countries have been published both in Chinese and in English.
Shuxi YIN
Professor, Hefei University of Technology, China
Shuxi YIN
PhD, Economics
University of Tuebingen, German
Professor Yin also holds an MPA in International Development from Harvard University and a double BA in Economics and Law from Peking University. His research focused on inequalities across ethnicities in China. He is currently teaching at Hefei University of Technology in China. He was the recipient of the Japanese government’s Asian Leaders Fellowship Program in 2015, and a Social Science Research Council, also in 2015. His publications include “Determinants of Health Inequality in China: An Empirical Study” in the Journal of Economic Inequality (2016) and “Inequality across Ethnicities in China: Problems and Solutions” in Issue and Studies (2015).
India China Leadership Fellows
The centerpiece of ICI is the India China Leaders Program, which aims to create an international community of experts and scholars committed to a critical, multidisciplinary approach to examining the reemergence of India and China onto the world stage. The program serves as a cornerstone of research, exchange, and collaboration among experts from The New School, India, and China. Since 2006, three cohorts of fellows have addressed challenging issues in three thematic areas: Urbanization and Globalization, Prosperity and Inequality, and Social Innovation for Sustainable Environments. The goal of these two-year residencies is to generate collaboratively produced policy papers and ongoing intellectual exchange.
ICI offered two-year fellowships to academics, entrepreneurs, policy experts, politicians, artists, and journalists through a generous gift from The Starr Foundation. Six years and three rounds of fellowships later, the program has grown to include 37 fellows, representing over 15 academic disciplines and fields of expertise.
Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
Visiting Distinguished Fellow
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi
Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
Visiting Distinguished Fellow
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi
At the time of his fellowship Jayanta Bandyopadhyay was Advisor to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) in New Delhi and a former Professor and Head of the Center for Development and Environment Policy, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Professor Bandyopadhyay recently retired as Professor and Head of the Centre for Development and Environment Policy at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. His research focuses on the generation of a trans-disciplinary public interest in critical issues related to environment and development. Among other publications, he is the author of Water, Ecosystems and Society: A Confluence of Disciplines (Sage, 2009); the expert contributor of The Indian Sundarbans Delta: A Vision (WWF-India, 2011); and the co-editor of Environmental Governance: Approaches, Imperatives and Methods (Bloomsbury, New Delhi, 2012). His public talk at the ICI was “Innovations in Himalayan Water Policy and Sustainable Water Futures of China and India.”
Sanjay Chaturvedi
Professor and Dean, Department of International Relations
South Asian University, New Delhi
Sanjay Chaturvedi
Professor and Dean, Department of International Relations
South Asian University, New Delhi
At the time of his fellowship with India China Institute, Sanjay Chaturvedi was Professor of Political Science at Punjab University in Chandigarh, India. He is a member of multiple editorial boards and committees and has been a member of delegations representing the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences. He has written dozens of books, articles, and journal publications on the geopolitics of climate change, energy security, and the political geography of the polar regions. He would like to use the ICI Fellowship to co-design and teach a course on climate change, ecological justice, and human security, and to develop a chapter in his forthcoming book dedicated to sustainability questions in China, further exploring the critical geopolitics of climate change.
DONG Shikui
Professor, School of Environment
Beijing Normal University
DONG Shikui
Professor, School of Environment
Beijing Normal University
Professor Dong completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Grassland Science from Gansu Agricultural University in 1995 and 1998, respectively; he received his PhD in Grassland Ecology from Gansu Agricultural University in 2001; and he completed his post-doc program in Natural Sciences at Beijing Normal University in 2003. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Natural Resource Department of Cornell University.
LO Sze Ping
CEO, World Wildlife Fund, China
LO Sze Ping
CEO, World Wildlife Fund, China
LO Sze Ping is a prominent Chinese environmentalist with over 20 years of experience in campaigning and advocacy. He was also former CEO of Greenovation Hub and the founder of Forward Works. Sze Ping has rich experience directing both international and local NGOs in the country of spectacular economic growth and unprecedented environmental challenges. Previously, Lo Sze Ping was the Secretary General of the Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology [referred to as Alashan in Chinese], which is a leading Chinese NGO for environment protection. He led the establishment of Greenpeace China as campaign director and sits on the boards of directors of Friends of Nature and the All China Federation of Environmental Protection.
Victoria Marshall
PhD, Geography
National University of Singapore
Victoria Marshall
PhD, Geography
National University of Singapore
Victoria Marshall is a PhD researcher in the Urban-Rural Systems Group at the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) of the Singapore-ETH Centre. Victoria is currently teaching at Yale-NUS. At the time of her ICI fellowship she was Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Parsons The New School for Design. She is a licensed landscape architect, and the founder of TILL, a Newark based design studio. In 2010 she launched and directed the Urban Design BS Program at The New School, the first undergraduate urban design program in an art and design school in the United States. Her ICI project is framed by two cities that have different mixtures of models of urbanization: Kolkata in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Megadelta, India and Shaoxing in the Yangtze River Megadelta, China. Drawing on her integrated modes of teaching and practice, she plans to co-teach or co-design a seminar collaborating with ICI Fellows on these research themes and to exhibit her research project in India, China and New York.
Nidhi Srinivas
Associate Professor, Nonprofit Management
Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy
Nidhi Srinivas
Associate Professor, Nonprofit Management
Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy
Nidhi Srinivas was an India-China Institute Fellow (2010-2012). His research interests center on critical theory, the management of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and the transfer of management knowledge in postcolonial settings. His research has been published in leading journals such as Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly’, Organizations and Critical perspectives on international business. Professor Srinivas’ forthcoming book Against Non-Governmental Organizations? A Critical Perspective on their Management will be published by Routledge Press.
Prosperity and Inequality, 2008-2010
Adriana Abdenur
Fellow, Instituto Igarapé, Brazil
Adriana Abdenur
Fellow, Instituto Igarapé, Brazil
Abdenur is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil. Her research focuses on the role of rising powers, including Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRICs), in development cooperation–especially South-South cooperation– and international security. She also coordinates the Igarapé-Institute of Security Studies (ISS) partnership on mapping armed conflict prevention in Africa. Her recent publications include journal articles in Global Governance, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Africa Review, and the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. She is the co-editor, with Thomas G. Weiss, of Emerging Powers and the United Nations (Routledge, 2016). As an ICI Fellow, Abdenur has collaborated with colleagues in India and China on the book India China: Rethinking Borders and Security (University of Michigan, 2017). Abdenur also received funding from the Earth Institute’s AC4 Initiative (Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity) to continue her ICI-sponsored research on sustainability and development. From 2006 to 2009, she was Assistant Professor of International Affairs at The New School. She has also worked as a consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Bank, and several agencies of the United Nations.
Lopamudra Banerjee
Faculty, Economics
Bennington College, Vermont
Lopamudra Banerjee
Faculty, Economics, Bennington College, Vermont
Lopamudra Banerjee’s academic interests are at the interface of environmental economics and development economics. In particular, her work encompasses two areas of studies: analyses of natural disasters and analyses of distributional asymmetries in a population (in terms of economic inequality and poverty). She received her doctorate in economics from the University of California, Riverside in 2007 and her MA and BA in economics from the University of Calcutta, and has taught economics at The New School for Social Research. Her work has been published, among other places, in Environmental Hazards, World Development, Development and Change, Oxford Development Studies, The Review of Black Political Economy, Singapore Economic Review, and Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Climate Change. Her recent research focuses on risk analyses of disasters, as well as on the social conditions under which people’s chances of experiencing adverse outcomes of an extreme natural event are realized.
Ashwini Deshpande
Professor, Economics
Ashoka University, New Delhi
Ashwini Deshpande
Professor, Economics, Ashoka University, New Delhi
Ashwini Deshpande is also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies in New Delhi. Deshpande is interested in issues related to globalization and development, and her specific research areas include the economics of discrimination; inequality and inter-group disparities, with a focus on caste and gender in India; international debt; and aspects of the Chinese economy. Her fellowship focuses on regional disparities and gender discrimination in China.
Jeesoon HONG
Assistant Professor, Chinese Studies, University of Manchester, UK
Jeesoon HONG
Assistant Professor, Chinese Studies, University of Manchester, UK
Jeesoon Hong was formerly an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Humanities at The New School. Dr. Hong writes on the body and imperialism in East Asia and also on developing stereotypes as a theoretical concept to explain cross-cultural transactions of images. As a fellow, she explored female domestic migrant workers and compared their experiences in global cities like New York, Shanghai, and Mumbai.
Nimmi Kurian
Associate Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Nimmi Kurian
Associate Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Nimmi Kurian is interested in foreign policy, in particular India’s border states, China’s domestic politics, Indian and Chinese approaches to regionalism, and transborder governance. Her recent work includes studies of the accountability debates in India and China, post-Mao policy shifts in China’s regional development, and Northeast India and its neighbourhood. She has also produced a critical reading of the transborder subregion and an agenda for India-China water dialogue. She is part of the Asian Borderlands Research Initiative, a network of scholars interested in the reconfiguration of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of borderlands. She is also part of the BCIM Forum, a subregional Track-II initiative of research institutes from India, China, Bangladesh, and Myanmar to study processes of marginalisation in the peripheries and suggest actionable and alternate imaginaries. Kurian received her PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her past publications include Emerging China and India’s Policy Options and the co-edited Welfare States and the Future. Her latest book is entitled India-China Borderlands: Conversations beyond the Centre (Sage, 2014).
Mahendra P. Lama
Professor, School of International Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Mahendra Lama
Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Mahendra P. Lama was the first Vice Chancellor of the newly established Central University of Sikkim in India. Dr. Lama holds a PhD in Economics. Until recently he was Professor of South Asian Economies and the Chairman of the Centre for South, Central, South East Asia and South West Pacific Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He also served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Sikkim with a Cabinet Minister rank. Dr. Lama is presently a Member of the National Security Advisory Board. He was a member of the National Committee of the revamping of the North Eastern Council in 2004 and the national steering committee for North East Vision document. Besides authoring and editing 15 books, he has extensively worked on the issues of human security, migration, refugees, trade, investment and energy cooperation in South Asia. He has closely worked with the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (Islamabad), Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies and Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (Dhaka) and Institute of Integrated Development Studies (Kathmandu), Institute of Policy Studies (Colombo) and Centre for Bhutan Studies (Thimphu). He has been an Asia Leadership Fellow in Japan in 2001; a Ford Foundation Fellow in the USA in 1997; a Visiting Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo 2004-2005; a Visiting Fellow at Calcutta University, Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies and an India-China Fellow at The New School in 2008. Until recently, he was a Member of the National Steering Committee to prepare XIth Plan (2007-2012) for the North East region of India appointed by the National Planning Commission 2006-2007.
LI Bo
Director, Friends of Nature, China
LI Bo
Director, Friends of Nature, China
LI Bo has a lifetime of experience researching the intersection of environment and economics. Mr. Li grew up in Dali, home to the Bai ethnic group in Yunnan Province. He has been involved in the work of diverse NGOs with different missions: rural livelihoods, indigenous knowledge, natural resource management and world heritage management in Yunnan, community-based tourism, biodiversity conservation, and NGO-led advocacy for transparent dam site decision making in southwest China. Mr. Li completed his MS in natural resources management at Cornell University in 2001. He spent the next five years living with a Tibetan community in northwest Yunnan within the Three Parallel River (Yangtze, Mekong, Salween) World Heritage Site. This experience exposed him to issues of community subsistence and sacred land culture, world heritage management and tourism development, village democracy, and environmental justice in China’s vast western provinces. Mr. Li currently works part-time with the Stockholm Environmental Institute-Asia (SEI-Asia) in Bangkok; as a Research Associate at the Center for Human and Economics Development Studies at Peking University; and as an Adjunct Researcher of environmental justice at the Institute of Environmental Laws at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, Central China.
L. H. M. Ling
Professor, International Affairs, Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs
L. H. M. Ling
14 November 1955 – 1 October 2018
Lily was a scholar of singular importance whose work leaves a lasting mark on International Relations (IR). Rejecting the Westphalian premise of world politics as an “arena of ceaseless strife and competition”, she began to offer an alternative paradigm, one that she called “Worldism”. She was a pioneer of post-colonial and feminist approaches to IR, fields that have gained rapid momentum over the last decade. She was honored as the 2018 Eminent Scholar by Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section of the International Studies Association. And her 2002 book Postcolonial International Relations: Conquest and Desire between Asia and the West serves as one of the founding texts.
Milind Murugkar
Policy Researcher, Pragati Abhiyan, India
Milind Murugkar
Policy Researcher, Pragati Abhiyan, India
Milind Murugkar is also an activist associated in Nashik, Maharashtra, India. Mr. Murugkar’s work focuses on fostering understanding of economic and trade policies at the grassroots level through use of press reports, workshops, and focus group discussions. With the Fellowship, Mr. Murugkar explored how Chinese small farmers are responding to the liberalized trade regime as well as researched the nature of market integration on the input and output side of farm production and new models of private-public partnership in agriculture.
Sanjay Ruparelia
Associate Professor, Politics and Public Administration
Ryerson University, Ottawa
Sanjay Ruparelia
Associate Professor, Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Ottawa
Sanjay Ruparelis’s research addresses the politics of democracy, equality and development in the postcolonial world; the prospects and difficulties of power-sharing in federal coalition governments in deeply diverse democracies; and the role of institutions, power and judgment in politics. Although India remains his primary region of inquiry, new research encompasses analogous developments in post-Maoist China, as is his effort to analyze the trajectory of capitalist development, political contestation and social well-being in both countries. Sanjay’s most recent book is Divided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern India, (London: Hurst & Company; New York and New Delhi: Oxford University Press; 2015). Sanjay received his PhD from Cambridge University in 2006. From 2013-2014 he received an Inter-Asia Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam
Associate Professor, Economics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam
Associate Professor, Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam was previously Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Hyderabad in India, and Assistant Professor of Economics at Queens College of the City University of New York, from 2004 to 2007. Dr. Vakulabharanam is a former Fellow and a Visiting Scholar of the India China Institute. He is currently a grantee at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET, NYC) working on a project titled, “Economic Development and Inequality: What Can the Asian Experience Teach Us?” Dr. Vakulabharanam’s recent research focuses on inequality in the contemporary Asian economies, including India and China. His additional research interests include political economy, economic development, economics of inequality and the economics of Asia. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
WEI Zhong
Professor, Economics
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
WEI Zhong
Professor, Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
Economist Wei Zhong has spent the last ten years studying income distribution. As a professor and director of the Institute of Economics at CASS, his work has encompassed policy research for international organizations, governments and NGOs, published reports in Chinese media and academic journals, research in macroeconomics and a term as editor of the Economic Research Journal in China.
Zhiyong XU
Attorney and Human Rights Activist, China
Zhiyong XU
Attorney and Human Rights Activist, China
Zhiyong XU is an attorney and human rights activist, and is currently in prison. He is an Elected Legislator and received his PhD in law from Peking University. He was previously the Director of the Open Constitution Initiative (Gongmeng) in Beijing and a university lecturer at the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications. He has been active in promoting human rights and rule of law in China. In 2009, Foreign Policy listed him as one of their Top 100 Global Thinkers for his work in voicing victim’s rights. He is also an independently elected legislator in his local district.
YAN Ming
Professor
Institute of Sociology and Center for Social Policy Studies
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
YAN Ming
Professor, Institute of Sociology and Center for Social Policy Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
YAN Ming is an expert on China’s social transformation in the contemporary period from both historical and sociological perspectives. She has also been engaged in policy-oriented studies concerning the impact of urban redevelopment on communities, housing issues, and lives of rural-to-urban migrants. As a fellow of the ICI, Yan expanded her work concerning the struggle of China’s social transformations with regard to disadvantaged groups, while comparing the experiences of development of India and China.
Jian YI
Documentary Filmmaker, China
Jian YI
Documentary Filmmaker, China
Jian YI, a documentary filmmaker and photographer, founded the ARTiSIMPLE Studio in January 2005, which has pioneered the art of collaborative community and citizen projects, while writing, producing and directing award-winning documentary films. Among his many acclaimed films, Mr. Yi produced and directed Super Girls!, a documentary film about China’s popular television show Super Girl Singing Contest. He has also worked as a filmmaker and communication consultant for a number of European Union projects focusing on China issues.
Urbanization and Globalization, 2006-2008
Jonathan Bach
Professor, Global Studies, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
Jonathan Bach
Professor, Global Studies, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
At the time of his fellowship Jonathan Bach was Chair of the interdisciplinary Global Studies undergraduate program and Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York. His work concerns post-socialist transition in Germany and China and how these societies appropriate their past. He has also written on information technology and organizational change, labor migration and citizenship, and political theory. Bach is the author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989 (St. Martin’s Press 1999), and his articles have appeared in Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Politics, Public Culture, Theory, Culture and Society, Cultural Politics, Studies in Comparative and International Development, Geopolitics, and Philosophy and Social Science. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University and has held visiting positions at Brown and Columbia Universities, the Center for Literature and Cultural Studies in Berlin and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies in Hamburg. He has held post-doctoral fellowships at Columbia University and Harvard University, where he is a faculty affiliate. Bach is a faculty affiliate at Columbia University’s Center on Organizational Innovation and the New School Department of Anthropology.
Amita Bhide
Professor, Department of Urban and Rural Development , Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Amita Bhide
Professor, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Amita Bhide works to ensure that the urban poor are not marginalized by the process of urbanization currently shaping India’s global economy. As a member of the District Urban Development Agency, she has been instrumental in pushing the local government of Greater Mumbai to redress poverty in the city. Working with the Committee for Right to Housing in Mumbai, Bhide is also involved in developing a rehabilitation plan for people displaced by recent slum demolitions. She is currently helping develop a concentration in urban development as part of the newly configured master’s curriculum in social work at her institute. It will evolve under her guidance into a Center for Urban Development in the near future. Bhide has a formidable record of accomplishments in the field of urban poverty and development communication.
Ghanta Chakrapani
Chairman, Telangana State Public Service Commission, India
Ghanta Chakrapani
Chairman, Telangana State Public Service Commission, India
Ghanta Chakrapani is a human rights activist and scholar who studies globalization as it affects the Dalit communities of India–-economically, socially, and culturally oppressed groups branded untouchable and considered impure, dangerous influences on higher orders of the caste system. He has organized several workshops for Dalit NGOs on human rights and globalization, including the World Social Forum desk on Dalit rights. He has also participated in international conferences and seminars, including a conference organized by the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations. Moreover, Dr. Chakrapani has been instrumental in introducing progressive and innovative courses to the curriculum at his university in fields such as human rights, women’s studies, and mass media. Widely published as an academic and journalist, he has participated in important social policy debates in Telugu print media and research journals and developed content for several television and radio documentary programs.
Hiren Doshi
Entrepreneur
Hiren Doshi
GUO Yukuan
Deputy Director, China Research Center for Public Policy
GUO Yukuan
Deputy Director, China Research Center for Public Policy
GUO Yukuan organized the first investigative journalism training program in China, and established a cross-district collaborative network for journalists. He does hard-hitting segments on medical fraud, environmental issues, urbanization, and equality in education for CCTV’s high-profile program News Probing. In Nanfengchuang magazine, he recently reported on urban land seizures in the country after interviewing more than 100 victims, lawyers, and government officials. He has traveled to Kashgar, Xinjiang to interview Islamic leaders and to study the volatile relationship between the Han (the majority population) and various minority groups there. Mr. Guo is a fervent and influential advocate of free thinking, critical thought, and truth-seeking in the Chinese media.
Colleen Macklin
Associate Professor, Media Design, Parsons School of Design.
Colleen Macklin
Associate Professor, Media Design, Parsons School of Design.
Colleen Macklin has led collaborative research projects focused on open source and grassroots media with partners such as the United Nations and the Open Society Institute. In addition to her work at Parsons, she was an interaction designer at several design firms for clients such as Citibank, France Telecom, Moët, and technology-based installation artist with exhibitions and events in New York and Asia. She holds an undergraduate degree in Media Arts from Pratt Institute; and graduate studies in Computer Science, CUNY and International Affairs at The New School.
Brian McGrath
Professor, Urban Design, Parsons School of Design
Brian McGrath
Professor, Urban Design, Parsons School of Design
Brian McGrath is the founder and principal of Urban-Interface, LLC, an urban design consultancy fusing expertise in architecture, ecology and social media. McGrath is also a principal researcher in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a National Science Foundation’s Long Term Ecological Research, where he leads the Urban Design Working Group. His books and publications include: Urban Design Ecologies Reader, (2012), Digital Modeling for Urban Design (2008), Transparent Cities (1994), Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design (2012), co-edited with Steward Pickett and Mary Cadenasso, Growing Cities in a Shrinking World: The Challenges in India and China (2010), co-edited with Ashok Gurung and Jiyanying Zha, Sensing the 21st Century City (2007) co-edited by Grahame Shane, and Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today (2007) co-authored with Jean Gardner. McGrath served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Thailand in 1998-99 and an India China Institute Fellow in 2006-2008 and currently is the Research Director in the joint US-EU Transatlantic exchange program Urbanisms of Inclusion. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University and his Masters of Architecture degree from Princeton University, and interned at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York. He was formerly Dean at the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons.
Partha Mukhopadhyay
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Partha Mukhopadhyay
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Partha Mukhopadhyay’s current research interests are in urban development, the development paths of India and China and infrastructure. He was in the first cohort of Fellows of the India China Institute. His last assignment was with the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), where he worked on policy and regulatory frameworks for the flow of private capital into infrastructure. Earlier, he was with Export-Import Bank of India, as the first Director of their Eximius Learning Centre in Bangalore, and with the World Bank, in the Trade Policy Division in Washington. He has been associated with a number of government committees, most recently with the Committee on Allocation of Natural Resources of the Cabinet Secretariat. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; XLRI, Jamshedpur and the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of LIRNEasia, Colombo. Partha Mukhopadhyay has a PhD in Economics from New York University and an MA and MPhil from the Delhi School of Economics.
Partha Mukhopadhyay’s current research interests are in urban development, the development paths of India and China and infrastructure. He was in the first cohort of Fellows of the India China Institute. His last assignment was with the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), where he worked on policy and regulatory frameworks for the flow of private capital into infrastructure. Earlier, he was with Export-Import Bank of India, as the first Director of their Eximius Learning Centre in Bangalore, and with the World Bank, in the Trade Policy Division in Washington. He has been associated with a number of government committees, most recently with the Committee on Allocation of Natural Resources of the Cabinet Secretariat. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; XLRI, Jamshedpur and the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of LIRNEasia, Colombo. Partha Mukhopadhyay has a PhD in Economics from New York University and an MA and MPhil from the Delhi School of Economics.
Vyjayanthi Rao
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, The New School for Social Research
Vyjayanthi Rao
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, The New School for Social Research
Vyjayanthi Rao is also Core Faculty for the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School for General Studies. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on globalization, development, and cities, in particular issues of technology, infrastructure, memory and modernity in South Asia. The ICI Grant enabled her to conduct fieldwork in China and collaborate with the ICI Fellows in development of her project entitled Shanghai Dreams, a comparative study on the makeover of Mumbai into a world class city vis-à-vis its role model, Shanghai.
Aromar Revi
Founding Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India
Aromar Revi
Founding Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India
At the time of his fellowship Aromar Revi was a graduate of the Indian Institutes of Technology-Delhi and the Law and Management schools of the University of Delhi. He is one of South Asia’s most experienced risk and disaster management professionals. He led teams to plan and execute rehabilitation programmes for ten major earthquake, cyclone and flood events affecting over 5 million people and has been on the Advisory Board of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Scientific & Technical Advisory Group and its bi-annual Global Assessment of Risk, since 2008. He works in sustainable development, public policy and governance, human settlements, global environmental and technological change.
Paul Ross
Assistant Professor, History, Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts
Paul Ross
Assistant Professor, History, Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts
Paul Ross’ primary research interest is Latin American history. He was working on a documentary film project, Creative Cities: Contemporary Art, Urban Creativity, and Globalization in Beijing, Delhi, and Mexico City, which takes urban art scenes as the vantage point from which to examine the current impact of globalization on these countries. The ICI Grant facilitated his travels to Beijing and Delhi to conduct follow-up interviews and deeper research in support of his film project.
WEN Zongyong
Urban Planner and Historic Preservation Expert, Beijing Government
WEN Zongyong
Urban Planner and Historic Preservation Expert, Beijing Government
WEN Zhongyong has over 15 years of experience in urban planning work with the Beijing government and is a leader in the field of historic preservation. Mr. Wen manages many urban planning efforts at the Beijing Municipal Urban Planning Commission, and has led numerous major surveys that produced important preservation and renovation plans for Beijing’s old city areas. He also has advised the Beijing municipal government on its often controversial urban planning policy. He focuses on the issues of urbanization in the age of globalization and has consistently participated in programs and studies centering on urban planning and space development. Frequently published in Chinese journals, Mr. Wen is currently a PhD candidate in city culture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China.
WU Xiaobo
Qiushi Chair Professor of Strategy and Innovation Management, Zhejiang University
WU Xiaobo
Qiushi Chair Professor of Strategy and Innovation Management, Zhejiang University
Xiaobo WU is also Dean of the School of Management, Director of the National Institute for Innovation Management, and Director of the Global Zhejiang Entrepreneur Research Center at Zhejiang University. He is also the director of the Zhejiang University—Cambridge University Joint Research Center for Global Manufacturing and Innovation Management. Dr. Wu received his BS in Electrical Engineering, a MS in Techno-economic Management, and PhD in Management Science and Technology, all from Zhejiang University. He previously worked for government agencies and industrial organizations as an assistant engineer. He worked at the Institute for Manufacturing and Judge Institute of Management Studies at Cambridge University. As a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, he worked at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Dr. Wu’s current research interests include managing technological innovation, inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship, global manufacturing and network-based competitive strategy. He is also a founding member of the Institute for Manufacturing, at Cambridge University and also serves as a strategic advisor for companies such as Siemens, Geely and Hikvision.
YANG Zuojun
Director General, Hangzhou Urban Planning Bureau, China
YANG Zuojun
Director General, Hangzhou Urban Planning Bureau, China
YANG Zuojun has been responsible for the recent development of historic Hangzhou, China into a city poised for participation in the global arena. An architect and urban planner by training, he aided in the contemporary urban planning of Beijing before working in Hangzhou. Yang is deeply interested in the future of urban development in China and how it dovetails with similar development efforts in cities in India and the United States. He was previously Director of the Hangzhou Commission of Urban and Rural Construction, subsequently Director of the Hangzhou Department of Science and Technology. He is currently a CEO of the Bluetown Real Estate and Construction Management Group in Zhejiang, China.
YAO Yang
Professor, Economics, Peking University.
YAO Yang
Professor, Economics, Peking University
Yao Yang is also Dean of the National School of Development and Director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University in Beijing. He has been following issues of land acquisition, ownership transformation, and migration in China for the past decade. Dr. Yao has taught economics at various institutions in China, Japan, and the United States. In addition, he has served as a consultant to the World Bank and participated in numerous contemporary debates about China’s economic reform. Dr. Yao writes widely in the popular and academic press in China and is a respected authority on rural development.
Emerging Scholars
The Emerging Scholars program draws on The New School’s tradition of fostering and enhancing knowledge-sharing across disciplines and amongst scholars in different stages of their careers. This unique initiative is designed to provide a platform for both advanced level graduate students in professional fields as well as current PhD scholars and those who received their PhD within the last five years, to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research and to discuss recent advances and new trends in research on India and China.
The Emerging Scholars program was funded by a generous gift from The Starr Foundation.
2015
Jingfeng Li, Assistant Researcher, Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences
Joe Thomas Krackattu, Assistant Professor, China Studies Centre Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
Amen Jaffer, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Forman Christian College, Lahore
Yang Lu, Lecturer, Heidelberg University
Marina Kaneti, PhD Candidate, Politics, The New School for Social Research
Yuan Zhang, Research Fellow, Sanskrit Centre of Institute of Foreign Literature, China Academy of Social Sciences
Barnali Chanda, Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkatta
2014
HUANG Yinghong
Assistant Professor, School of Asia-Pacific Studies
Sun Yat-sen University
Prakash Kashwan
Assistant Professor, Political Science
University of Connecticut
Uttam Lal
Assistant Professor, Geography & Natural Resources Management
Sikkim University, India
Nirmola Sharma
Doctoral Candidate, East Asian Studies
University of Delhi
SU Ying
PhD Candidate, Institute of International Studies
Yunnan University
Min YE
Assistant Professor, International Relations
Boston University
YU Zheng
Assistant Professor, Political Science
University of Connecticut
2013
Shahana Chattaraj
Post-doctoral Fellow, The Lauder Institute
University of Pennsylvania
Anil Kumar
Doctoral Candidate, East Asian Studies
University of Delhi
Dhriti Roy
Assistant Professor, Asian Languages
Sikkim University
XIN Zhang
Faculty Fellow
School of Advanced International and Area Studies
East China Normal University
YAN Yifei
Erasmus Mundus student, European Master in law and Economics
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai
Social Innovation for Sustainable Environments, 2010-2013