Madhushree Sekher
| Grant Category: | Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Seminar |
| Project Title: | NA |
| Field of Study: | Higher Education Administration |
| Home Institution: | Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra |
| Host Institution: | University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame, IN |
| Grant Start Month: | October 2024 |
| Duration of Grant: | Two weeks |
Brief Bio:
Prof. Madhushree Sekher is at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). She is known internationally for her interdisciplinary research, being a recipient of the Australian Research Council (Discovery) grant, DFAT-Australia Awards fellowship, and grants from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI), ICSSR-Major Project grant, and the UGC-UKIERI Thematic Partnership Award. She represents TISS from India in a multi-university collaborative teaching program being led by Cornell University on ‘food-energy-water nexus.’ She is associated with an international research consortium on ethnic power relations which was funded by the Swiss Development Council and the Swiss National Science Foundation. She has been a visiting faculty at IFPRI-Washington, the University of Hohenheim-Stuttgart (Germany), the University of Sydney (Australia), and the Tata-Cornell Institute, Cornell University. She coordinated and led two training programmes for the Leadership for Academicians Program (LEAP) from TISS for the Ministry of Education, Government of India (2019, 2020), partnering with UPenn-GSE, Philadelphia. She has authored many research articles and books, including Feeding India: Livelihoods, Entitlements and Capabilities (Earthscan, 2013), Governance and Governed (Springer, 2017), and Including the Excluded in South Asia (Springer, 2019). She has a PhD in political science, and was a recipient of the World Bank Robert S. McNamara fellowship for post-doctoral research.