Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Duke University
Master of Arts (MA), University of Chicago
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Chicago

Research Interests

My early research studied rural poverty programs in India and the United States to evaluate different strategies for implementing pro-poor policies in stratified societies. Upon completing this project, I examined the politics of economic reform in Russia, China, and India. This research led to a project that I call “Politics of Markets”. It investigates the ways in which politics affects the development of financial markets in India and other developing countries. In 2004, I was asked to chair a Task Force on Difference, Inequality, and Developing Societies for the American Political Science Association. As part of this project, I have put together a symposium entitled “New Approaches to the Politics of Inequality in Developing Countries” published in the journal PS: Political Science & Politics (October 2009) and an edited volume examining how inequality has affected economic development in different regions of the developing world.