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I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania. I am also a research affiliate at University of Chicago's Center on Democracy. I completed my PhD from Yale University's Department of Political Science. I study political behavior and party-voter linkages, with a regional focus on South Asia. My research agenda is centered on party strategy, campaigns, and political participation. In my research projects, I use a variety of methods, including in-depth, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, grounded theory, content analysis, surveys, and survey experiments. I have taught courses on Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, and Statistics. Previously, I was a policy researcher at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and at the Centre for Public Policy, IIM Bangalore, where I researched issues of urban governance and public finance. I received my master's in public policy and public administration from National University of Singapore and London School of Economics and Political Science; and my bachelor's degree (Hons) in economics from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. You can contact me at: shahanas[at]sas.upenn.edu |