Bhumi Purohit is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies gender, bureaucracy, and public service delivery in India.
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests encompass the political economy of development of Latin America and of sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, he studies questions concerning crime, human capital, immigration, and policing under weak institutional settings.
Philip Rogers is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of California, who studies political economy with a focus on China. His research draws upon the nexus of law, policy, and business to study corporate regulation and technological innovation in domestic and international contexts. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked on transnational corporate law cases as a paralegal at the Shanghai office of Zhong Lun Law Firm.
Varsha Venkatasubramanian is a graduate student in the History Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the history of dams in the United States and the World as it relates to foreign policy, policy history, environmental movements, and legal history. Her dissertation focuses on U.S.-India relations and infrastructure projects during the 1950s to the 1980s.
Alison Post is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the intersection of comparative urban politics and comparative political economy in Latin America and South Asia, with a particular focus on the regulation and provision of infrastructure services.
Jennifer Bussell is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the foundations of democratic politics in economically developing states, with an emphasis on the political economy of development, democratic representation, and governance, principally in South Asia and Africa.
