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Professor
Francine R. Frankel is the Founding Director of the Center
for the Advanced Study of India. She is Professor of Political
Science and South Asian Regional Studies at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Professor Frankel has
received numerous grants and fellowships. During 2006-2007
she is a resident fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. She has also received
fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, The Smithsonian
Institution, and the American Institute of Indian Studies.
Prof. Frankel was a founding member (1995-2006) of the Governing
Council of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the
Advanced Study of India, New Delhi. |
Prof. Frankel holds a BA
(History) from the City College of New York; an MA (International
Relations) from John Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies; and a PhD (Political Science) from the University
of Chicago.
Selected Publications
India's Political
Economy: The Gradual Revolution (1947 - 2004), Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 2005).
The India-China Relationship: What the United States Need
to Know, Co-editor
(with Harry Harding) and contributor (Columbia University
Press, 2004).
Transforming India,
Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy, editor (with Zoya Hasan, Rajeev Bhargava, and Balveer Arora)
and contributor (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Dominance and State
Power in Modern India, Decline of a Social Order, editor (with M.S.A. Rao) and contributor, 2 vols. (Oxford
University Press, 1989 and 1990).
Affiliations & Memberships
Member, Council on Foreign
Relations, 1982 - present
Member, Board of Directors, Holdeen India Fund, 1994 - 2001
Founding member, University of Pennsylvania Institute for
the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI)
Member, Governing Council,
UPIASI, 1995 - present
Member, Asia Society &
Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on India
& South Asia, 2001 - 2003
Member, Executive Committee, Project on Tracking the Strategic
Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region, The National Bureau
of Asian Research, Seattle, 2000 - present
Member, Brookings Institution
& Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force
on South Asia, 1999 - 2000
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