CASI Faculty and Staff | Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)

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	Tariq Thachil Director Professor of Political Science Madan Lal Sobti Professor for the Study of Contemporary India University of Pennsylvania
	Juliana Di Giustini Deputy Director
	Georgette Rochlin Senior Associate Director
	Nikhil Anand *Associate Faculty Director, CASI* Daniel Braun Silvers and Robert Peter Silvers Family Presidential Professor of Anthropology; Director, Envirolab University of Pennsylvania
	Alan Atchison Head of Communications
	Juni Bahuguna Assistant Director, Student & Visitor Programs
	Rachael Dougherty Administrative Coordinator
	Amrita A. Kurian Postdoctoral Research Fellow
	Sarath Pillai Postdoctoral Research Fellow
	Shikhar Singh Postdoctoral Research Fellow
	Jitender Swami Research Coordinator - CASI/DevLab
	Rohan Venkat Consulting Editor, India in Transition CASI Spring 2024 Visiting Fellow

Sobti Family Fellows

Rashi Sabherwal

Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Politics

Raka Sen

Doctoral Candidate, Sociology

Former CASI Directors

	Marshall M. Bouton *CASI Senior Fellow* CASI Acting Director & Visiting Scholar (2018-2020) CASI IAB Chairman (2004-12) President Emeritus, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
	Devesh Kapur CASI Director (2006-2018) *CASI Senior Fellow (2018-2023)* Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor and Asia Programs Director Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
	Francine R. Frankel Founding Director, CASI (1992-2006) Professor Emerita of Political Science and South Asian Regional Studies University of Pennsylvania