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Rudra Sil is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and has been at Penn since 1996. His research focuses on comparative politics with specializations in Russian/post-communist studies, Asian studies, labor politics, and qualitative methodology. Sil has authored/co-authored eight books, including *Beyond Paradigms* (2010) and *Managing “Modernity”* (2002), and his work bridges theoretical eclecticism and regional studies.
His research interests include post-communist transitions, labor movements in extractive industries, and methodological debates in political science. He has received the Dorothy Day Award for labor scholarship (2020) and the Ira H. Abrams Teaching Prize (2022). Sil teaches courses on comparative politics, Russian politics, and international studies, and advises doctoral students like Allison Evans. His current project explores Russia’s post-Cold War geopolitical identity.
Key themes in his scholarship include analytic eclecticism, cross-regional comparisons, and the evolution of area studies. Sil’s work often integrates historical, institutional, and cultural dimensions to analyze political and socioeconomic change in late-industrializing and post-communist societies.
