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Contact Information:
Brown University
Department of Sociology
Box 1916
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: (401) 863-6023
Fax: (401) 863-3213
Shruti_Majumdar@brown.edu

Year of Entry: 2006

Previous Degrees:
B.A. in Sociology, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, India, 2006
A.M. in Sociology, Brown University, USA, 2008

Areas of Interest:
Political Economy of Development, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology and Ethnography

Shruti Majumdar is a fifth year doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Brown. She has a Masters in Sociology from Brown University, and a B.A. in Sociology from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, India.

Her research and teaching interests include the political economy of development, urban sociology and political sociology. She is currently writing her dissertation on urban governance issues in Indian cities, focusing on variation in civic engagement and citizenship practices among the urban poor in Calcutta. Her fieldwork in four of the largest slums and squatters in Calcutta has been supported over the last four years by the Brown University Dissertation Fellowship, the Watson Institute’s Summer Fieldwork Grants and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.

In addition to dissertation research, she is also working for Professor Ashutosh Varshney in the Political Science Department at Brown University on a number of projects examining sub-national variation in revenue streams from the center to states, as well as affirmative action in India. She has also provided research support for his other projects on the “rise of lower caste parties in India,” and “terrorism and economic development in the global South.” Her prior work has revolved around state-business relations and the location choices of foreign investors at the sub-national level in India. During her research assistantship with Professor David Meyer in the Sociology Department, she has had the opportunity to work on the contemporary Indian financial sector, and provide research support for network based analysis on professional mobility of leading Indian financiers.