JOHN ECHEVERRI-GENT

                                                          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)

 

LANGUAGES

 

Spanish                        Bengali

Hindi                            French

Urdu