Profile
Shylashri Shankar was previously an Assistant Professor in the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She has held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. She was a Frank C Irwin Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, a President's Fellow at Columbia University, and a Fellow at the German and American Young Scholars Institute 2003/2004 on "Secularization and Religion". She has been a consultant for the World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Health Organisation. She contributes regularly to newspapers in the mainstream Indian press on a range of issues including India’s foreign policy, South Asian and Middle East politics, judiciary and rights, ethnic conflict, and politics and impact of anti-poverty programs. She has a Bellagio Residency Fellowship in June-July 2011 at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy.
She is currently co-authoring a book with Prof. Raghav Gaiha on battling corruption in NREGA. Her current research areas include the politics of implementing anti-poverty programs like the national rural employment guarantee scheme, secularism and constitutions, migration of ideas between judiciaries, transformational courts, urbanization and old cities, among others.
Contact: shylashris@gmail.com
