Please join us for a seminar on South Asian politics co-hosted by the Saxena Center at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and the Mittal Institute at Harvard University.
Speaker:
- Rajeshwari Majumdar, Assistant Professor, School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University
Discussant:
- Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Political Science at Brown University
- Gautam Nair, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Feyaad Allie, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University
- Mashail Malik, Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University
About the Speaker:
Rajeshwari Majumdar is Assistant Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, affiliated with the Identity & Conflict Lab in The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. She received my Ph.D. in political science from New York University in 2024.
Her research interests lie in political communication, intergroup relations, ethnic nationalism, experimental methods, and Indian politics. Broadly, she investigates how individuals react to information about controversial political and social issues, with a focus on the case of political rhetoric and discourse around religious nationalist policies in India. She also conducts research on the role of WhatsApp in the politics of developing countries.