CURRICULUM
VITAE
Office address: Home address:
Department of Government 102 Vicar Court
and
Foreign Affairs Charlottesville,
VA 22901
University of Virginia Phone:
(804)-977-9984
Charlottesville, VA 22901
Phone: (804)924-3968
Fax:
(804)924-3359
E-Mail: JEE8P@VIRGINIA.EDU
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of Political Science,
University of Chicago. Dissertation:
"The State and the Poor: A Comparative
Analysis of Policy Implementation
in India and the United States" (1987)
Diploma and Valedictorian. Central Hindi
Institute, Government of India,
New Delhi (1977)
M.A. Department of Political Science, University
of Chicago (1976)
B.A. Duke University. Double Major: History and Comparative Area
Studies (1974)
HONORS
AND AWARDS
University of Virginia, Summer
Research Grant 2001
Center for Advanced Studies, University of
Virginia, Sesquicentennial
Award (1997-98, deferred until 2000-01)
American Institute of Indian Studies Senior,
Long-term Fellowship (1998-99)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant
(1997)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant
(1995)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant
(1994)
The 1993 Theodore J. Lowi Award presented by the
Policy Studies
Organization for the best article in the Policy
Studies Journal in 1992.
American Institute of Indian Studies Senior
Short-term Fellowship (1991-92)
Center for Advanced Studies, University of
Virginia, Sesquicentennial
Award (1991-92)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant
(1990)
University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant
(1989)
MacArthur Scholar in Residence at the Overseas
Development Council,
Washington, D.C. (1988-89)
University of Virginia, Summer Research
Grant (1987)
Committee on Southern Asian Studies, University
of Chicago, Dissertation
Write-Up Grant (1984-85)
U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays
Dissertation Research Fellowship (1983-4)
American Institute of Indian Studies Language
Fellowship (1976-77)
B.A. Graduation from Duke University Magna Cum
Laude (1974)
PROFESSIONAL
EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH
Associate Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department
of Government and
Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, (1993
to date)
Associate Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Department
of Government and
Foreign Affairs (1997 to 2000)
Assistant Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department
of Government and
Foreign
Affairs, University of Virginia (1987 to 1993)
Associate Director, Center For South Asian
Studies, University of Virginia
(1990-1991)
Consultant, "Promoting Democracy in
Asia," a seminar for the Democratic
Pluralism
Initiative, sponsored by U.S. Agency for International Development,
Washington, D.C. (1990)
Visiting Fellow, Overseas Development Council,
Washington, D.C. (1988-89)
Acting Assistant Professor, Woodrow Wilson
Department of Government
and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
(1986-87)
Lecturer, Division of Social Sciences,
University of Chicago, (1985-86)
Fulbright Scholar, Dissertational Research in
India (1983-84)
Lecturer, Department of Political Science,
Purdue University (Calumet) (1983)
Editorial Assistant, In These Times
(1980-82)
Assistant to the Director of the Undergraduate
Program of the Department
of Political Science, University of Chicago
(1980-81)
Research Assistant for the National Institute of
Education Project: "Urban School
Organization and the American Working
Class" (1979-80)
Founder and Treasurer, Kamalsaagar Labor
Contract Society for Cooperative Farming
(Azamgarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India,
1977-78)
American Institute of Indian Studies Language
Program and Diploma
Course in Hindi at the Central Hindi Institute
of the Government of India
(1976-77)
College Year in India Program of the University
of Wisconsin. Fieldwork
Research Paper: "Cooperative Societies in
Uttar Pradesh" (1973-74)
PUBLICATIONS
A. BOOKS
John Echeverri-Gent. The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political
Development in India and the United States. New Delhi: Vistaar (Sage)
Publications, 1995, (A new Indian addition including
a detailed preface
updating the evolution of rural poverty programs in India:
"Structure and
Agency
in Indian Poverty Alleviation," pp. ix-xxviii.)
John Echeverri-Gent, The State and the Poor:
Public Policy and Political
Development in India and the United States. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1993.
312pp.
Richard E. Feinberg, John Echeverri-Gent and
Friedemann Muller (eds.)
Economic
Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy and the USSR,
China
and India. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1990.
viii +
241 pp.
B. JOURNALS ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
John Echeverri-Gent, “Political Economy of
India’s Fiscal and Financial Policy,”
essay
written for a volume edited by Anne Krueger.
Volume is under review at
theUniversity of Chicago Press.
John Echeverri-Gent, “India’s Decentered Polity, ” in India Briefing,
2002.
Edited by Alyssa Ayres and Philip
Oldenburg. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe,
forthcoming.
John Echeverri-Gent,
“India: Financial Globalization, Liberal Norms, and the
Ambiguities of Democracy,” in Financial
Globalization and Democracy In
Emerging Markets. Edited by Leslie Elliott Armijo. New York: St. Martins,
1999, pp. 207-232.
John Echeverri-Gent,
“Political Science,” in India’s Worlds and U.S. Scholars
1947-97. Edited by Joseph Elder, Edward Dimock,
and Ainslie Embree. New
Delhi: Manohar, 1998, pp. 399-418.
John Echeverri-Gent,
“Governance in a Globalizing World: Deconstructing
Decentralization in India, China, and the
United States,” in Governance in
India, Southeast Asia and the United States edited by Satu
Limaye. New York:
Asia Society, 1998.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Government
and Politics," in India: a country study.
Edited by Robert Worden and James Heitzman. Washington, D.C. U.S.
Library
of Congress, 1996. pp. 429-506.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Structure and Agency in Indian Poverty
Alleviation,"
Preface to John Echeverri-Gent, The
State and the Poor: Public Policy and
Political Development in India and
the United States. New Delhi:
Vistaar/Sage, 1995, pp.
ix-xxix.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Popular Participation and Poverty
Alleviation: The
Experience of Reform Communists in India's West
Bengal," World
Development
20 no. 10 (October 1992): 1401-1422.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Politics of
Development and the Development of Politics:
An Inquiry into the Political Means of Equitable Development," Contemporary
South Asia 1 no. 3, (Fall 1992):
325-349.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Between Autonomy and Capture: Embedding
Implementing Agencies in their Societal Environment," Policy
Studies
Journal 22 no. 3 (Summer
1992): 342-364.
John Echeverri-Gent, "Economic Reform in India: A Long and Winding
Road," in
Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy and the USSR,
China
and India. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1990,
pp. 103-134.
John Echeverri-Gent and Friedemann Muller,
"The Political Economy of
Reform in the Giants," in Economic
Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign
Policy and the USSR, China and India. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
Books, 1990, pp. 135-168.
Richard E. Feinberg, John Echeverri-Gent
and Friedemann Muller, "Introduction:
Overview," in Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S.
Foreign Policy and the
USSR, China and India. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1990,
pp. 3-
28.
John Echeverri-Gent,
"Guaranteed Employment in an Indian State: The
Maharashtra Experience," Asian Survey 23 no. 12 (December
1988): 1294-1310.
Co-Author with Paul E. Peterson, Margaret Weir
and Marcia Turner- Jones, "The
Politics of Race and Equity," in Paul E. Peterson. The Politics of School
Reform, 1987-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Co-author with Paul E. Peterson, Margaret Weir,
Carol Peterson and David Plank,
"Finance and Reform: Issues of the Thirties," in Paul E.
Peterson. The Politics
of
School Reform, 1987-1940. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1985.
C. WORKS IN PROCESS
John Echeverri-Gent, Globalization
and Governance Structures: Reforming
India’s Stock Exchanges in a Globalizing
World (book manuscript in
process)
John Echeverri-Gent, Ajay Shah, and Susan
Thomas, “Reforming India’s Equities
Markets in a Globalizing World,” article length
manuscript.
D. BOOK REVIEWS
Pradeep Chhibber, Democracy
without Associations. Ann Arbor:
University of
Michigan Press,
1999. in American Political Science
Review 94:4 (December
2000) pp. 961-62.
Review of Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, India:
Economic Development and
Social
Opportunity. Delhi: Oxford University Press, Journal of Asian Studies
57:4
(November 1998) pp. 1197-98.
Review of Sunita Parikh, The Politics of
Preference: Democratic Institutions and
Affirmative Action in the United States and India . Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1997. In American
Journal of Sociology103 no. 5 (March,
1998)
pp. 1465-67.
Review of Jagdish Bhagwati, India in
Transition: Freeing the Economy.
Oxford:
Clarendon, 1993 in Economic Development and Cultural Change 43
no. 4 (July
1995)
pp. 895-97.
Review of Nikhilesh Bhattacharya, Dipankor
Coondoo, Pradip Maiti and Robin
Mukherjee, Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Rural India. New Delhi: Sage
Publications, 1991; and Arun Sinha. Against the Few: Struggles of
India's Rural
Poor. London: Zed Books Ltd, 1991 in Journal of
Asian Studies (August,
1994).
Review of George Sorensen, Democracy,
Dictatorship and Development. New
York:
St. Martins Press, 1991. In Economic
Development and Cultural Change
41 no.
3 (April 1993) pp. 679-684.
Review
of Dennis Merrill. Bread and Ballot:
The United States and India's
Economic Development. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1990. In Political Science
Quarterly (Fall 1991).
Review of Alexandra George. Social Ferment in
India. London: Athlone Press,
1986. In Journal of Asian
Studies 47 no. 3 (August 1988).
Review of Jon Pynoos. Breaking the Rules: Bureaucracy and Reform in Public
Housing. New York: Plenum Press, 1986. In American
Journal of Sociology
92:3
(November 1987).
Review of Pradip K. Ghosh (ed.) Developing
South Asia: A Modernization
Perspective.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. In
Contemporary
Sociology.
15, no. 3 (May 1986).
Review of Hernan Vidal. Dar la Vida por la Vida: La Agrupacion
Chilena de
Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos.
Minneapolis: Institute for the
Study
of
Ideologies and Literature, 1982. In Ethics
(Autumn 1983).
Review of Marvin E. Gettleman et al. (eds.) El
Salvador: Central America in the
New
Cold War. New York: Grove Press, 1981. In These Times (November 18,
1981).
INVITED
TALKS AND PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
“Pakistan’s Fragile State and International
Terrorism,” talk given at the Miller Center for
Public Affairs, University of Virginia,
September 17, 2001.
“Reforming India’s Equities Markets in a
Globalizing World,” paper co-authored with
Ajay Shah, and Susan Thomas, presented at the
American Political Science Association,
San Francisco, August 29-September 2, 2001.
Chair, Panel on “Reforming the
Economy” at the American Political Science Association,
San Francisco, August 29-September 2, 2001.
“The Future of India’s Financial Sector Reform,”
comments prepared for Conference on
India’s
Economic Reform, Stanford University, Stanford CA. June 1-2, 2001.
“The Political Economy of Reforming India’s
Stock Exchanges,” paper presented at
University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 13, 2001.
“Economic Governance Regimes and the Reform of
India’s Stock Exchanges.” Paper
presented
at the International Political Science World
Congress, Quebec City, August 1-5, 2000.
“Globalization and Decentralization: Lessons in
Good Governance from China and India.” Paper
presented at Yale University, February 11,
2000.
“Globalization and Decentralization: Lessons in
Good Governance from China and India.” Paper
presented at the University of Connecticut,
February 10, 2000.
“The Construction of India's Capital Market in a
Globalizing World,” Paper presented at
the Annual Meeting of the International Studies
Association, Los Angeles, March 15 -18,
1999.
“Governance Structures and the Political Economy
of India’s Stock Exchanges” National
Stock Exchange, Mumbai, India, August 23, 1999
“Governance Structures and the Political Economy
of India’s Stock Exchanges” Indira
Gandhi Institute of Development Studies, Mumbai,
India, August 20, 1999.
“Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Delusions,
Nightmares, and Lessons of the Morning
After,” Lecture given at The Miller Center of
Public Affairs, Charlottesville, VA
February 9, 1999
“Globalization, Partisan Competition and the
Paradox of India’s Economic Reform,” at
the
conference on “India and Globalization,” India International Centre, New Delhi
January
14-17, 1999.
“Globalization, Partisan Competition, and the
Paradox of India’s Economic Reform,” at
the National Institute of Public Finance and
Policy, New Delhi, January 15, 1999.
“Globalization, Partisan Competition, and the
Paradox of India’s Economic Reform,” at
the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, January 13,
1999.
“Governance
Structures and Market‑Making: Regulating India's Equity Markets in
a
Globalizing World” presented at the conference
on “India’s Economic Reform”
University of California-Santa Cruz, November
20-21, 1998.
Invited participant conference on “The Indian
Sub-Continent: Prospects in the Twenty-
First Century,” sponsored by The Ditchley
Foundation Oxfordshire, England, October
9-11, 1998. (Declined)
“Weak State, Strong Reforms? Globalization,
Partisan Competition, and the Paradox of
India’s Economic Reform” paper presented at the
94th Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Boston, September 3-6, 1998. Panel organizer: “Political
Parties and Economic Reform”.
“Financial Globalization and the Ambiguities of
Democracy: The Case of India,” a paper
presented to South Asia and Middle East Seminar,
University of Chicago, May 14, 1998.
“Explaining the Paradox of India’s Economic
Reform: Globalization, Partisan
Competition, and the incentives for Reform,”
paper presented at Symposium on "The
Indian Democracy and the Politics of Nation‑Building,"
Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, March
26‑27, 1998.
Invited participant, symposium on
"Democratization and Decentralization in India" at
Princeton University, October 31 and November 1,
1997.
Invited participant, conference on “India’s
Democracy at Fifty” sponsored by the
National Endowment for Democracy’s International
Forum for Democratic Studies,
Washington D.C., September 24, 1997.
Chair and Discussant, Panel on “The Quality of
Democracy and Democratic
Consolidation” Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association,
Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 1997.
Discussant, panel on “Comparative Perspectives,”
Symposium on “Power, Agrarian
Structure, and Peasant Mobilization in Modern
India” Charlottesville, VA May 23-25, 1997.
Invited participant, conference on
"Indian's Economic Reform" Harvard University,
Cambridge Massachusetts, December 13-14, 1996.
Chair "Asia to 2010: The Interdependence of
Security & Prosperity" The University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, November 2, 1996.
"Governance in a Globalizing World:
Deconstructing Decentralization in India, China,
and the United States," paper presented at
the conference on "India, Southeast Asia and
the United States: Common Challenges to
Governance into the 21st Century" sponsored
and organized by the Asia Society, New York, September
5-7, 1996.
"Financial Globalization and the New
Geography of Democracy and Development in
India" Paper
presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, San Francisco, August 29-September
1, 1996.
Discussant, Panel on "Ethnic conflict and
the International Normative Regime," at the
1996 Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, San Francisco,
August 29-September 1, 1996.
"New Campaign Technologies, Party
Organization, and the Politics of Economic Reform
in India and China"
paper to be presented at the conference on Political and Economic
Reform in China and India, Marquette University,
Milwaukee WI July 12-13, 1996.
Chair and discussant, Panel entitled
"Neo-Liberal Economic Reforms in Latin America,"
1996 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago IL April
18-20, 1996.
"India: the Political Economy of
Integration into Global Capital Markets," Conference on
Culture Clash: Financial Globalization, National
Policy Autonomy, and Democratization
in the Emerging Markets," Brown University,
Providence, RI, November 11, 1995.
Chair of Panel entitled "Politics of
Economic Development: The Role of the State,
Parties and Business Groups" Paper
presented with co-author Christopher Sabatini,
"Where's the Party: Political Parties and
the Partisan Theory of Economic Reform,"
1995 Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August
31-September 3, 1995.
"Political Reforms: Civil Society/Ethnic
Conflict Management," and Comparative
Reforms in China and India: An Assessment,"
Symposium on Comparative Reforms in
China and India, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee & Marquette University Center
for International Studies, Milwaukee, WI May
12-13, 1995.
Discussant, Panel on "The Political Element
in Economic Development: Perspectives
from India and Pakistan," 1995 Annual
Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies,
Washington, D.C. April 6-9, 1995.
Organizer of Panel entitled "Bringing
Parties Back In: Political Parties, Democratic
Consolidation, and Economic Reform, the Midwest
Political Science Association
Meetings, Chicago April 4-6, 1995. Paper to be
presented: "Liberal Democracy
without Liberal Parties? India's political
paradox and its consequences for the
Politics of Economic Reform."
"India's Growing Middle Class and Its
Emerging Stock Market: Two Factors in the
Expanding Economic Linkages Between the United
States and India" talk given to
the McIntire School of Commerce, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, April 15,
1994.
"Against Equilibria: The Dynamic
Constraints of India's Economic Reform," paper presented
to the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association Meetings,
Washington, D.C. September 2-5.
"Between Market and
the State: "The Dynamics of Formulating Effective Technology
Policy, paper presented at 1993 Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science
Association Meetings, Washington, D.C. September
2-5.
Organizer of Panel at the 1993 Annual Meeting of
the Association for Asian Studies, Los
Angeles (March 25-28, 1993). Panel title: "Theory of the State:
Perspectives from the
Grassroots" Title of paper to be presented:
"Theories of the State: A Critique from
India's Grassroots".
"Managed Trade and Competitive
Advantage," talk given at the Darden School of
Business, University of Virginia, April 7, 1993.
Chair, Panel Entitled "Theoretical
Frameworks for Democratic Political Development
Assessments", Organized by the National
Academy of Sciences, National Research
Council, Washington, D.C. January 7, 1993.
Roundtable on Asian Politics. 1992 Conference of Virginia Political
Scientists,
Washington and Lee University, Lexington
Virginia, (December 5, 1992).
"Strength in Weakness? Paradoxes in the
Political Economy of India's Economic
Reform" paper presented at the 1992
Southern Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, Atlanta (November 5-8, 1992).
Discussant, Panel on Political Parties and
Transitions to Democracy. Southern
Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta
(November 5-8, 1992).
Co-organizer
with Brantly Womack, Roundtable on "Asia in a Post-Cold War
World".
Other participants: Brantly Womack, Allen Lynch
and Leonard Schoppa. University of
Virginia, Charlottesville VA (September 30,
1992)
"Public Policy and Political Development:
The Political Dynamics of Rural Development
in the United States and India" Indian
Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi,
(July 28, 1992)
Organizer
of Roundtable on "Marxism in a Post-Communist World". Other panelists:
Gianfranco Poggi, Allan Megill, and Robert
Fatton. University of Virginia,
Charlottesville,
VA (October 9, 1991)
"Social Democracy for Peasants: Making
India's Rural Development More Equitable"
A
paper presented to the Midwest Political Science
Association Meetings, Chicago (April
18-29, 1991)
"Social Democracy for Peasants: Making
India's Rural Development More Equitable"
A
paper presented to the Seminar on South Asian
Political Economy, University of Chicago
(April 18, 1991)
Organizer Conference on "Public Policy and
Social Change in Contemporary India"
(January 26, 1991) Charlottesville, VA. Paper presented: "The Politics of
Poverty
Alleviation in India"
"Primary Education as Poverty Alleviation,"
A paper presented to the National Institute
of Educational Planning and Administration, New
Delhi (January 16, 1991) “The Decline
of Congress Hegemony and the Rise of Social
Strife in India" Talk sponsored by William
and Mary University (December 7, 1990)
Consultant, "Promoting Democracy in
Asia," a seminar for the Democratic Pluralism
Initiative, sponsored by U.S. Agency for
International Development, Washington, D.C.
(June 1, 1990)
"The Political Economy of Economic Reform
in Three Giants," a paper presented to the
Seminar on South Asian Political Economy,
University of Chicago (November 9, 1989)
Paper presented at the 1989 Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association,
Atlanta, GA.
Title: "Moving to the Frontier: Promoting Technological Change in
India's
Computer Industry,"
Paper presented at the 1988 Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C. Title: "Between Autonomy and Capture:
Embedding
Implementing Agencies in Their Societal Environment"
Organizer of Panel at the 1988 Annual Meeting of
the Association for Asian Studies.
Panel title: "Economic Development and
Redistributive Reforms: Comparative
Perspectives From India's Grassroots" Title of paper presented: "The
Political Means
of Effective Development: Comparing Public Works
Programs in Maharashtra and
West Bengal"
Participant in the Conference on the USA, The
USSR and World Economic Development
sponsored by American Academy of Learned
Societies and the Soviet Academy of
Sciences.
Washington, D.C. (October 5-7, 1987)
Paper Presented at the Twenty-first Bengal
Studies Conference, (May 1987). Title
"Politics Takes Command: Implementation of
the National Rural Employment
Programme in West Bengal"
"Revenge of the Rational Peasant: Paradoxes
in Rural Development," talk given to
Seminar, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia (February
19, 1987)
Paper presented at the 1985 Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science
Association.
Title: Bureaucratic Policy Implementation: A Resource Dependence
Perspective"
Discussant on "Pro-Poor Policies For South
Asia" Panel at the 32nd Annual Meeting of
the Association for Asian Studies Chicago,
(April 1982)
Paper presented at the Annual Conference on
Third World Issues (Chicago, March 1981).
Title:
"Unemployment and Response:
The Case of the Employment Guarantee Scheme
in India."
RECENT
PUBLIC SERVICE TALKS
Interview with on situation in Afghaniston on
Mitch Abom Show nationally syndicated by ABC radio.
November 15, 2001.
Interviewed on public radio station WVTF’s
“Evening Edition”, an hour-long news show with audience
call-ins, November 13, 2001. Excerpts of the interview were played on
WVTF segments of “Morning
Edition” November 14, 2001 at 7:00 AM and 8:00
AM.
Interview with WRVA, Richmond radio
station, October 16, 2001.
Interview on current situation in Afghanistan
and Pakistan, WINA, Charlottesville Radio
Station, October 11, 2001.
"Precarious States and High Stakes:
Pakistan and Afghanistan" talk given at Teach-in on International
Terrorism, sponsored by the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies University of Virginia, October 9, 2001.
Organizer and moderator of panel on
“International Terrorism, Islamic Fundamentalism
and the Predicament of Afghanistan
and Pakistan: Diverse Perspectives”.
Sponsored by
the Center for South Asian Studies, September
28, 2001.
“International Terrorism and Political Response
in Pakistan and Afghanistan”. Talk
sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies University
of Virginia, September 21, 2001.
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE
A. ACADEMIC COMMUNITY
Member, Association for Asian Studies’ Ananda
Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize
Selection Committee for best English Language
Book in South Asian Studies
(1998 to date, Committee Chair 2000-01)
Trustee, American Institute of Indian Studies
(1996 to date)
Chair, Panel on “New Fellowships for non-Area
Specialists” American Institute of
Indian Studies (2001).
Member, Fellowship Selection Committee, American
Institute of Indian Studies, (1994-1996)
Reader, Woodrow Wilson Institute Fellowship
Proposals (1994 to date)
Reviewer of articles for World Politics, Comparative
Politics, American Journal
of
Sociology, American Journal of Political Science, Economic Development
and Cultural Change, Governance, Journal of
Asian Studies, The Journal of
Policy
Reform, Political Research Quarterly, Asian Survey, and World Development
Member of the editorial board of Annual
Editions: Comparative Politics.
Responsibilities involved selection of articles for this annual volume
oriented to
undergraduate
classes in comparative politics (1987 to date)
Consultant, U.S. Agency for International
Development, Democratic Pluralism
Initiative (1990)
"Economic Reform in the Soviet Union, China
and India," talk given to students,
Charlottesville High School (April 14, 1990)
"Democracy and Development: The Case of
India," Talk given to High School
Teachers, Charlottesville, VA (April 4, 1987)
B. UNIVERSITY
Member, Program Review Committee for the
Department of Asian and Middle
Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of
Virginia, 1999-2000.
Member, University of Virginia Commission on
Public Service and Outreach,
Chair of the Exploratory Group on Volunteer
Service, 1999-2000
Member, Program Review Committee for the
McIntire School of Commerce,
University of Virginia, 1998-99.
Core Faculty Member, Center for South Asian
Studies, University of Virginia
(1986 to date) [ Associate Chair (1990-91);
Chair of Curriculum Committee (1995
to date, Co-chair of Fundraising Committee (1995
to date), member Library Committee,
(1995 to date), Chair, Center for South Asian
Studies Evaluation Committee (1996),
Member CSAS FLAS Fellowship Selection Committee
(1987-91, 1994-98
Member, University Library Committee
(1997-2000).
Member, Dean’s Planning Committee for the
Division of Asian and Middle
Eastern Languages and Culture, University of
Virginia (1997-98)
Chair, Selection Committee to appoint Visiting
Lecture in International Business
specializing in South Asia. (Position is jointly funded by Center for
South
Asian Studies an the McIntire School of
Business) (1996)
University Representative, Board of Madison
House, Office of Volunteer
Community Service for the University of
Virginia, (1995-2000); Co-Chair of the
Board of Directors (1999-2000), Secretary
of Madison House, (1998-1999)
Administrator, Taraknath Das Foundation Fund,
University of Virginia (1987 to
date)
Member, Search Committee for Lecturer in Hindi
(1996-97)
Organizer, visit to the University of the
Honorable Naresh Chandra, Ambassador
of India
to the United States, (February 5, 1997)
Faculty Associate for Advising first and second
year students (1990 to May 1996)
Member of dean's committee to select recipients
of Weedon Foundation awards to
scholars in Asian Studies (1991 to 1995)
Organizer, visit to the University of the
Honorable Abida Hussain, Ambassador of
Pakistan to the United States, (February 4,
1992)
Organizer, speech and reception of the Deputy
Chief of Mission, Embassy
of Pakistan (April 17, 1991)
Organizer, visit to the University of the
Honorable Abid Hussain, Ambassador
of
India to the United States (October 8, 1990)
A. DEPARTMENT
Director, Department of
Government and Foreign Affairs Honors Program (2001
to date)
Associate Chair, Department of Government and
Foreign Affairs, (1997 to 2000)
Co-Chair, Comparative Politics Group, Department
of Government and Foreign
Affairs, 1996 to date)
Organizer of first Rowland Egger Lecture (1997)
Member, Departmental Chair Search Committee
(1996-97)
Member, Search Committee for position in
American Political Behavior (1996-7)
Member, Graduate Committee (1996- to date)
Co-chair, Comparative Politics Self-Study Group
(1994 to date)
Member, Public Policy Self-Study Group (1994 to
date)
Chair, Comparative Politics/Western Europe
Faculty Search Committee
(1995-96)
Associate Undergraduate Advisor, Department of
Government and Foreign
Affairs
(1988 to 1996)
Member, Graduate Review Committee, (1994-5)
Chair, Departmental Assessment Committee
(1993-4)
Member, Departmental Chair Selection Committee,
(1993)
Member, Department of Government and Foreign
Affairs, Middle East
Search Committee (1993-94)
Member Computer Committee, Department of
Government and Foreign
Affairs, University of Virginia (1987 to 1990)
Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of
Government and
Foreign Affairs (1989 to date)
Member, Department of Government and Foreign
Affairs, Middle East
Faculty Search Committee (1991-92)
Member, Department of Government and Foreign
Affairs, Ad Hoc
Committee on Governance (1991)
Member, Graduate Committee, Department of
Government and Foreign Affairs,
University of Virginia (1987-91, 1994 to date)
Member, Department of Government and Foreign
Affairs, Soviet Politics Faculty
Search Committee (1990-91)
Member, Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid
Committee, Department of
Government and Foreign Affairs (1986-88,
1989-1990)
Member, Department of Government and Foreign
Affairs, Japanese
Politics Faculty Search Committee (1989-90)
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