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CASI Faculty and Staff

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

Megan Cuadrado

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 Non-Resident Visiting Scholar

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