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Francine R. Frankel - Professor
Founding Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary India
232 Stiteler Hall
Spring 2008 Office Hours: T 3:00 - 5:00
Phone 898-7648 or 898-6247
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Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1965.
M.A. in Int'l Relations, Johns Hopkins University, 1958.
Curriculum Vitae (.pdf) (.doc) |
Francine R. Frankel is Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), serving as Director from 1992-2006. She is a Founding Member of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), New Delhi, the counterpart institution of CASI.
Her research interests include India’s political economy, foreign policy decision-making and power realignments in Asia. The recipient of research grants from the Ford Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Smithsonian Institution, American Institute of Indian Studies and the American Philosophical Society, she has held research appointments at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi, Delhi School of Economics, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and the Center for International Studies, Princeton University.
She is the author or editor of eight books, including the second edition of India's Political Economy, 1947-2004, (2005); and co-editor of The India-China Relationship, What the United States Needs
to Know (2004), During 2006-07 she was Scholar in Residence, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, to complete a book tentatively titled Different Worlds: Challenges of
Establishing an Indo-US Global Partnership.
Professor Frankel is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and has served on several policy task forces sponsored by the CFR, the Asia Society, the Brookings Institution and the
Carnegie Foundation for International Peace.
She holds a Ph.D degree from the University of Chicago.
Areas of Interest
• The Political Economy of Development
• State and Society
• India, Pakistan, China
• International Security Studies
• U.S., South and Southwest Asia
Selected Publications
• India's Political Economy 1947-2004, Second Ed. (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• The The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know. (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Columbia University Press, 2004). [co-editor, with Harry Harding]
• Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy. (Oxford University Press, 2000). [editor]
(Buy this book from the publisher)
• The Nonproliferation Treaty: Implications for the U.S. and India. (University Press of America and Center for the Advanced Study of India, 1995). [editor]
(Buy this book from the publisher)
• Dominance and State Power in Modern India. (Oxford University Press, 1989). [editor]
• India's Political Economy, 1947-1977: The Gradual Revolution. (Princeton University Press, 1978).
• India's Green Revolution, Economic Gains and Political Costs. (Princeton University Press, 1971).
Course Sampler
• Economy of Development
• Contexual Democracy
• International Relations of South Asia
• International Relations of US & Asia (Cold War History)
• Politics of India
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