Aseema Sinha
asinha@polisci.wisc.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin - Madison
312 Nort h Hall - 1050 Bascom Mall - Madison, WI. 53706


Aseema Sinha is an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches Comparative Politics.  Her research interests relate to political economy of India, India-China comparisons, Emerging Powers (Brazil, Russia, India and China) in the International system, and International Organizations and developing countries.  She teaches courses on South Asia, Social Movements, Globalization and Developing Countries, and Comparative Political Economy.  She is affiliated with the Center for South Asia, the World Affairs in the Global Economy and Global Studies.  She is the co-collaborator in a WAGE project on "Remaking the Developmental State," 2008-2011.

 
She has authored a prize-winning book, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2005).  She is also an author of journal articles on federalism, subnational comparisons in India, India and China, business collective action in India, and public expenditure across Indian states.  She is completing a book on the World Trade Organization titled: When David Meets Goliath: How Global Trade Rules Shape Domestic Politics.