Francine R. Frankel

Francine R. Frankel is Founding Director, [http://casi.ssc.upenn.edu Center for the Advanced Study of India] and Professor of [http://www.polisci.upenn.edu Political Science] at the [http://www.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania] . A leading authority on India's politics, economics and foreign policy [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=196378] , she spent Academic Year 2006-07 at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars completing a book on U.S. and India foreign policy using declassified documents and archival sources.

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 (New Delhi), the Delhi School of Economics, The Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and Princeton University. [http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/home/bios/bio_FrankelF.html]

Books

Written

* "India's green revolution: Economic gains and political costs" (Princeton University Press, 1971)
* "India's Political Economy, 1947-1977: The Gradual Revolution" (Princeton Univ Press, 1978)
* "The Nonproliferation Treaty" (University Press of America, 1995)
* "India's Political Economy 1947-2004: The Gradual Revolution, 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2005)
* "India's Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Edited

* "Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order, Volume 1" (Oxford University Press, 1990), with M. S. A. Rao
* "Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order, Volume 2" (Oxford University Press, 1990), with M. S. A. Rao
* "Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy" (Oxford University Press, 2002), with Zoya Hasan, Rajeev Bhargava and Balveer Arora
* "The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know" (Columbia University Press, 2004), with Harry Harding

External links

* [http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/home/bios/bio_FrankelF.html Faculty bio]
* [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=196378 Faculty bio]