Congratulations to Penn's graduating Class of 2024!
CASI Election Conversations 2024:
As millions of Indians set out to vote, India in Transition brings you CASI Election Conversations 2024, an interview series featuring IiT Consulting Editor & CASI Spring 2024 Visiting Fellow Rohan Venkat speaking with renowned scholars, reflecting on the factors and dimensions of politics, political economy, and democracy that will define India’s 2024 election.
Sumitra Badrinathan on the Need to Study Misinformation in India
Sumitra Badrinathan & Rohan Venkat
May 13, 2024
In Part 6 of the series, Rohan Venkat speaks to Sumitra Badrinathan (Assistant Professor of Political Science at American University) about the state of research on the subject, a recent paper of hers that examines efforts to correct misinformation related to vigilante violence in India, and the urgent need for more scholarship examining fake news in the Global South.
Neelanjan Sircar on the Roots of Political and Economic Centralization in India
Neelanjan Sircar & Rohan Venkat
May 20, 2024
In Part 7 of the series, Rohan Venkat speaks to Neelanjan Sircar (Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research and CASI Non-Resident Visiting Scholar) about his research into the roots of this “vishwas” politics, its antecedents in regional party structures emerging in the 1990s, and why you cannot study political centralization without engaging with the concentration of economic power.
CASI Student Programs
Congratulations to CASI's 2024 Summer Interns and Summer Research Grant recipients!
2024 CASI Summer Research Grant Recipients:
Tanya Vaidya: Penn Arts and Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science
The Contractualization of the "Sarkari Naukri"
Sage Leland: College'26, Neuroscience
A study of patient digital usage habits, access, and attitudes at a high-volume eye hospital in Southern India
Norah Rami: College'26, English
Literary Freedom and Political Dialogue on Kolkata's College Street
Kshama Mumbai: College '26, Economics
Effect of Dissent Within RBI on Financial Markets
Koyna Tomar: Ph.D. Candidate in History and Sociology of Science
Dairy Democracy: Food and Techno-politics in Modern India, c.1880-1989
Kamalini Hegde: Joint Ph.D. Candidate South Asia Studies and Anthropology
Mapping Agricultural Cooperatives in Karnataka: A Preliminary Exploration
Christopher LaMack: Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology
An Investigation of Small Industry in Colonial Bellary District, 1800-1947
2024 CASI Summer Interns:
Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI): Gurgaon, Haryana
Jaymaba Ndiaye: SAS'25, Health and Society
Shristi Mapchan: College'25 Psychology, Minor in Medical Sociology and Chemistry
Siddiqa Faruki: Nursing'26, Global Health
Aravind Eye Care System: Madurai and Pondicherry
Amanda Kossoff: Vagelos Life Sciences & Management Dual-Degree Program'27, B.S. in Economics & B.A. in Biology
Asanti Mergiya: Life Sciences & Management Dual-Degree Program'26 B.S. in Economics, Health Care Management & Policy & B.A. in Biology
Alicia Zhang: College'27, Computational Biology
Hana Matsuda: Engineering'25, Bioengineering
Nitin Seshadri: College'25, Neuroscience
Shivek Narang: College'25, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science with a minor in Healthcare Management
Shahi Exports:
Bedansh Pandey: College'26, International Relations
Iniyaal Raguraj: College'26, Political Science and Computer Science
All Sobti Fellowship Applications Now CLOSED—thanks to all who applied!
Keep up with student travel funds winners' experiences on the CASI Student Programs Blog!
Questions about CASI Student Programs?
Please contact Juni Bahuguna (Assistant Director, Student & Visitor Programs) at junib@sas.upenn.edu
Upcoming Events
Our events for this academic year have concluded. Thanks to all who participated in-person and/or virtually. The Fall 2024 events program will be announced later this summer.
CASI 2023 Data Seminar Series Videos Available
View the full videos of all 12 seminars in the CASI 2023 Data Seminar Series—hosted by CASI Non-Resident Visiting Scholar Rukmini S. (Independent Data Journalist; Founder of Data For India).
Campus Location
CASI's office is located close to the heart of Penn's campus at the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics at 133 South 36th Street (Suite 230) Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215.
Please note: CASI is operating on a hybrid schedule.
