Steering Committee

Ashutosh Varshney

Director of the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Office 238, Stephen Robert '62 Hal, 280 Brook St.

Areas of Interest: lndian politics, political economy of development, ethnic conflict and nationalism.

• +1 401 863 6059
• ashutosh_varshney@brown.edu

Shahzad Bashir

Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities Professor of History

• 401-863-6449
• shahzad_bashir@brown.edu

Andrew Foster

Professor of Economics
Director of the Population Studies and Training Center

Areas of Interest: Voluntary certification, Scale economies, Intergenerational economic mobility

• 401-863-2537
• andrew_foster@brown.edu

Patrick Heller

Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
(On leave 2022-2023)

Areas of Interest: Urban governance and citizenship, development and globalization

• +1 401 863 7465
• patrick_heller@brown.edu

Holly Shaffer

Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture

• holly_shaffer@brown.edu

Prerna Singh

Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

Areas of Interest: Comparative political economy of development, politics of social welfare and public health; identity politics, including ethnic politics and nationalism, and gender politics; and the politics of South Asia and East Asia.

• prerna_singh@brown.edu