Francine Frankel

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Francine R. Frankel (born 1935) is founding director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India [1] and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] [3] An authority on India's politics, economics and foreign policy , she spent Academic Year 2006-07 at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars [4] completing a book on U.S. and India foreign policy using declassified documents and archival sources.

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Education and career

Frankel received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1965, after completing her Masters from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1958. Additionally, Frankel has been a research scholar at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and the Delhi School of Economics in New Delhi, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Princeton University.

In 1992, Frankel founded the Center for the Advanced Study of India, the only academic research center in the United States for the study of India. [5] The Center collaborates with other institutions in the US, India and elsewhere to carry out its goal of nurturing a new generation of scholars across disciplines and providing a forum for dialogue among the academic, business and foreign policy communities.

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References

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  2. "Frankel, Francine". University of Pennsylvania Political Science Department. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  3. "About CASI". Center for the Advanced Study of India. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  4. "Francine Frankel". Wilson Center. 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  5. "CASI celebrates 25th anniversary with a symposium on 'A Quarter Century of India's Transformations'". The American Bazaar. 13 October 2017.
  6. Frankel, Francine R. (30 November 2006). India's Political Economy: The Gradual Revolution (1947-2004) (Second ed.). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780195683790.