Steering Committee

Ashutosh Varshney

Director of the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

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