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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

Nikhil Anand

Associate Faculty Director, CASI
Daniel Braun Silvers and Robert Peter Silvers Family Presidential Professor of Anthropology;
Director, Envirolab
University of Pennsylvania

Juliana Di Giustini

Executive Director

Georgette Rochlin

Deputy Director

Alan Atchison

Head of Communications

Juni Bahuguna

Assistant Director, Student & Visitor Programs

Rachael Dougherty

Administrative Coordinator

Matt Barlow

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Kiran Kumbhar

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Shahana Sheikh

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Jitender Swami

Research Coordinator - CASI/DevLab

Manya Gupta

Research Assistant

Rohan Venkat

Managing Editor, India in Transition

Sobti Family Fellows

Advait Rajagopal Aiyer

Doctoral Candidate, Applied Economics

Deepaboli Chatterjee

Doctoral Candidate, Political Science

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