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Shahana Sheikh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on political parties, political behavior, and party-voter linkages in developing democracies, particularly South Asia.
She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University, where her dissertation explored the impact of Internet-based communication technologies on Indian political dynamics. Prior to this, she received a master’s in public policy from the National University of Singapore and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a bachelor’s in economics (Honors) from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.
Her work examines how development-related transformations—such as urbanization, environmental degradation, and digital communication—shape political strategies and participation in India. Methodologically, she employs interviews, participant observation, grounded theory, content analysis, surveys, and survey experiments.
She has also taught courses on Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, and Statistics. Earlier, she worked as a policy researcher at the Centre for Policy Research and the Centre for Public Policy, focusing on urban governance and public finance in India.
