Prerna Singh is Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, with appointments in the School of Public Health and the Department of Sociology at Brown University.
RECENT
Carnegie Council for Ethnic in International Affairs
Panel on Illiberal Democracy on the Rise: Examining Brazil, Hungary, & India.
June 2021
IN THE NEWS
How Indian Americans Got the President’s Ear (Commentary)
Politico
4 May 2021
How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India
“Prerna Singh’s book...presents a radically new and original argument....It provides powerful and novel ideas about how to think about policy and promises to have the same sort of impact on political science that Robert Putnam’s book, Making Democracy Work, has had.”
Woodrow Wilson Award
Best Book on Government, Politics, or International Affairs in 2015
American Political Science Association
“Singh’s book struck us as an example of wonderful comparative-historical analysis that directly challenges our core ideas about where variations in national welfare state-efforts come from. She starts with a compelling empirical puzzle and develops a plausible theory, tested both through deep case-based analysis and an appropriately modestly interpreted quantitative analysis.”
Barrington Moore Prize
Best Book Published in Comparative Historical Sociology in 2015
American Sociological Association'
Contact
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Brown University
111 Thayer Street
Providence, RI 02912
E-mail: prerna_singh@brown.edu