Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia

Melani Cammett and Poulomi Chakrabarti — Defensive Cooperation: Understanding Pro-Social Attitudes in Indian Muslims

Friday, December 1, 2023

2:00pm - 4:00pm EST

Harvard University, Rm S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA 

Join us for a MIT-Brown-Harvard Joint Seminar on Defensive Cooperation: Understanding Pro-Social Attitudes in Indian Muslims with Melani Cammett and Poulomi Dar Chakrabarti. 

Melani Cammett is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She also holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.

Poulomi Dar Chakrabarti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University. Based at Harvard University this year as a visiting scholar in the Department of Government, she studies how social identity – ethnicity, class, and particularly social status – shapes political mobilization and redistributive politics.

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics