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Prerna Singh

Brown University, Harvard Academy, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University

ORCID iD 0000-0001-9234-4190
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Prerna Singh is Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University. Singh sits on the academic advisory board of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the steering committee of the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown, and is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and co-convenes the Brown-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar in South Asian Politics. She studied at Princeton, Cambridge, and Delhi Universities, and taught previously at Harvard University. Singh has published numerous award-winning books and articles on questions of human development, public health, ethnicity, and nationalism. Her first book, How Solidarity Works for Welfare, was awarded best book prizes from both the American Political Science and the American Sociological Associations. Singh has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the American Academy of Berlin, the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Singh has shared her research with scholarly, policy, and popular audiences in over a hundred lectures delivered across twenty different countries. Singh is working on a book that compares the control of infectious diseases across China and India through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Employment

  • Brown University Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies Faculty associate, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Faculty associate, Center for Contemporary South Asia Affiliate faculty, Department of Sociology
    2014 - Present
  • Harvard Academy Fellowship
    2012 - 2016
  • Harvard University Assistant Professor
    2010 - 2014
  • University of Pennsylvania Pre-doctoral Research Fellow
    2008 - 2009

Education

  • Princeton University Ph.D.
    2010 - Present
  • University of Cambridge M.A and 2nd B.A
    2000 - 2002
  • St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University B.A (Honours)
    1997 - 2000

Projects & Funding

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Publications (15)

  • Populism, Nationalism and Populist Nationalism.
    Studies in Comparative International Development 2021
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  • COVID-19 And Group Relations: Q & A
    Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association (2020). 2020
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  • Studying the Subnational Welfare State in India
    Inside Countries, Cambridge University Press, 2019 2019
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  • The Case for Reclaiming Indian Nationalism
    2019
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  • ‘Nationalism and the Provision of Public Goods
    The Annals of Comparative Democratization. 2019
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  • Census Enumeration and Group Conflict: A Global Analysis of the Consequences of Counting’
    World Politics 2017
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  • Subnationalism and Social Development: A Comparative Analysis of Indian States
    World Politics 2015
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  • How Solidarity works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India
    Cambridge University Press 2015
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  • Ethnicity, State Capacity, and Development: Reconsidering Causal Connections
    The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence 2014
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  • Studies in Comparative International Development
    Conceptualizing and Measuring Ethnic Politics: An Institutional Complement to Demographic, Behavioral and Cognitive Approaches 2012
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