Team

Leadership

Mark Frazier

Co-Director,
India China Institute
Professor of Politics
The New School for Social Research

Mark Frazier

Mark W. Frazier’s research interests focus on labor and social policy in China, and more recently on the political conflict over urbanization, migration, and citizenship in China and India. His newest book, The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay (Cambridge University Press, 2019) examines long-term changes in political geographies and patterns of popular protest in the two cities. He is also the author of Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell University Press, 2010), The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and Co-Editor of the SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China (SAGE Publications, 2018). He has authored op-ed pieces and essays for The New York Times, Daedalus, and The Diplomat. Dr. Frazier serves on the editorial board of China Quarterly and is a Faculty Associate at the Columbia University’s China Center for Social Policy. He received a Fulbright Research Award in 2004-05 and has been a Public Intellectuals Program fellow at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations since 2005. Before assuming his current position at The New School in 2012, he held a chaired professorship in Chinese Politics at the University of Oklahoma and was the Luce Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of East Asia at Lawrence University, a liberal arts college in Wisconsin.

For more info: https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/mark-w-frazier/

Manjari Mahajan

Co-Director,
India China Institute
Associate Professor, Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs
Schools of Public Engagement

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Manjari Mahajan

Manjari Mahajan’s work lies at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, Development Studies, and Anthropology. Her research and teaching are on the topics of global health, philanthrocapitalism, and digital governance. Much of her empirical focus has been on India and South Africa, and more recently, on global organizations such as the Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization. She has held fellowships at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle, Germany, and the Social Science Research Council in the United States. Her papers have received prizes from the Society for Social Studies for Science and the American Anthropological Association. She received her PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University, her MSc in Science and Technology Policy from SPRU Sussex University, and her BA from Harvard University.

For more info: https://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/faculty/manjari-mahajan/

Grace Hou

Deputy Director,
India China Institute

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Grace Hou

Grace Hou possesses over 15 years of experience in higher education, as a faculty and an administrator. She is a founding member of the India China Institute, and serves as a core resource and relationship builder/keeper internally with other constituencies of The New School, and externally with the Institute’s numerous partners, funders, scholars, leaders, consultants, and vendors. Grace oversees the operation and administration of ICI, including the management of its annual budget, personnel and contracting, and public programming. She received graduate education in both China and the U.S. She also received legal training at New York University. Prior to the India China Institute, Grace practiced as a Senior Paralegal at the Vice President and General Counsel’s Office of The New School. She is knowledgeable in immigration, contracts and labor law. Grace is ex-officio of the Faculty Advisory Committee and Executive Committee at ICI; on various selection committees such as the Asian leaders fellowship, ICI Starr Foundation student and faculty travel fellowships, faculty curricula development fellowship, postdoctoral fellowship and other international fellowships. She also sits on The New School’s Joint Committee on Global Education and the Committee on Study Abroad Programs.