Francine Frankel
{{short description|American political scientist}}
Francine R. Frankel (born 1935) is founding director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India{{Cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/spotlights/center-advanced-study-india-marks-25-years|title=Center for the Advanced Study of India Marks 25 Years|date=13 October 2017|website=Penn Today|language=en}} and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.{{cite web |url=http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=73 |title=Frankel, Francine |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Political Science Department |access-date=2011-09-22}}{{cite web |url=http://casi.ssc.upenn.edu/about |title=About CASI |publisher=Center for the Advanced Study of India |access-date=2011-09-22}} An authority on India's politics, economics and foreign policy,{{cite web | url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=196378 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214201421/http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=196378 | archive-date=2006-12-14 | title=Francine Frankel }} she spent Academic Year 2006-07 at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars{{Cite web|url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/francine-frankel|title=Francine Frankel|date=2011-07-07|website=Wilson Center|language=en|access-date=2019-07-18}} completing a book on U.S. and India foreign policy using declassified documents and archival sources.
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.{{cite web | url=http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/home/bios/bio_FrankelF.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026070904/http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/home/bios/bio_FrankelF.html | archive-date=2007-10-26 | title=South Asia Studies }}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2017/10/13/casi-celebrates-25th-anniversary-with-a-symposium-on-a-quarter-century-of-indias-transformations-429673/|title=CASI celebrates 25th anniversary with a symposium on 'A Quarter Century of India's Transformations'|date=13 October 2017|website=The American Bazaar|language=en-US}} 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.
Books
=Written=
- Frankel, Francine (1971) India's green revolution: Economic gains and political costs, Princeton University Press.
- Frankel, Francine (1978) India's Political Economy, 1947-1977: The Gradual Revolution, Princeton Univ Press.
- Frankel, Francine (1995) The Nonproliferation Treaty, University Press of America.
- Frankel, Francine (2005) India's Political Economy 1947-2004: The Gradual Revolution, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press.{{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/indias-political-economy-9780195683790?cc=gb&lang=en&|title=India's Political Economy: The Gradual Revolution (1947-2004)|last=Frankel|first=Francine R.|date=30 November 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195683790|edition= Second|location=Oxford, New York}}
- Frankel, Francine (2006) India's Political Economy, Oxford University Press.
- Frankel, Francine (2020) When Nehru Looked East, Oxford University Press.
=Edited=
- Frankel, Francine; Rao, M.S.A. (1990) Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order, Volume 1, Oxford University Press.
- Frankel, Francine; Rao, M.S.A. (1990) Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order, Volume 2, Oxford University Press.
- Frankel, Francine; Hasan Zoya; Bhargava, Rajeev, Arora, Balveer (2002) Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Frankel, Francine; Harding, Harry (2004) The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know, Columbia University Press.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071026070904/http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/home/bios/bio_FrankelF.html Faculty bio]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061214201421/http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=196378 Faculty bio]
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