Dr. Ronojoy Sen is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies and the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. He has worked for over a decade with leading Indian newspapers, most recently as an editor for The Times of India.

Charlotte Marie Chadwick (Char) is a Visiting Scholar at SEAP during the Fall semester. They will be working under the guidance of Professor Arnika Fuhrmann.

Sadia Mahmood holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Arizona State University. Her research investigates religious difference and the production and governance of postcolonial minorities in South Asia. Grounded in fieldwork among Hindu communities in the Tharparkar region of Sindh and archival work in Pakistan and Bangladesh, her work examines the governance of minorities through legal and bureaucratic regimes in Pakistan, caste and identity politics along the Sindh-Rajasthan borderlands and Dalit strategies of assertion in Sindh. 

Andrew Mertha is the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Director of the China Studies Program, and Director of the SAIS China Research Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). From 2019 to 2021, Mertha served as the Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at SAIS. He is formerly a professor of Government at Cornell University and an assistant professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis.

Norhafiza Mohd Hed is a Visiting Scholar at SEAP for the academic year 2024-2025. She is currently affiliated with the Department of Malaysian Studies at Sultan Idris Education University Malaysia, as a senior lecturer. Specializing in comparative politics, her research focuses on political participation, political behavior, and social movements.

David Cortright is professor emeritus of the practice at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, Cortright was the director of policy studies at the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and director of the institute’s Peace Accords Matrix project, the largest existing collection of implementation data on intrastate peace agreements.

Agnieszka Nimark has been a long-term visiting scholar at PACS since 2014. She is also a non-resident associate senior researcher in Global Geopolitics and Security at Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) in Spain.

Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah received his bachelor’s degree in geology from Kabul University, Master’s in Agriculture, and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology of Japan. He conducts research on groundwater resources investigation, climate change impacts on water resources, climate change mitigation through renewable energy resources, peacebuilding, climate change, and migration. He is also an AGU Global Engagement Committee member.

Yoshiko Okuyama (PhD, University of Arizona) is a professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Languages at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. Her areas of specialization include Japanese popular culture, disability studies, deaf studies, second language acquisition, and technology-mediated communication.

James Mason is a system scientist focused on the intersection of human capital, social capital, entrepreneurship, and economic development as a complex adaptive system. His research focus is the design and performance validation of enterprise-system value-network architectures – wherein portfolios of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are integrated & aligned with higher-level development objectives.