Rikhil R. Bhavnani
Position title: Professor: Comparative Politics | Political Methodology
Email: bhavnani@wisc.edu
Address:
322B North Hall
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Education:
Ph.D. in Political Science, Stanford University, 2010
M.A. in Economics, Stanford University, 2008
MSc. Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2003
B.A. Economics and Political Science, Yale University, 2000
Biography:
Rikhil R. Bhavnani is Professor and the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Chair at the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on the political economy of development and migration, and on inequalities in political representation, mainly in South Asia.
Professor Bhavnani is the co-author, with Bethany Lacina, of a book on the backlash against within-country migration across the developing world, published by Cambridge University Press. His research has also been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics, and has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the International Growth Centre.
Professor Bhavnani currently serves as President of the Midwest Political Science Association. He is a Faculty Affiliate at the La Follette School of Public Affairs, the Data Science Institute, the Elections Research Center, and the Center for South Asia—which he previously directed. He has served as the Department’s Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies.
Before joining UW–Madison, Professor Bhavnani was a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. He has also worked at the Center for Global Development and the International Monetary Fund. Professor Bhavnani received a PhD in political science and an MA in economics from Stanford University, and a BA in political science and economics from Yale University. His pronouns are he/him.
Courses:
Undergraduate
PS 327: Indian Politics in Comparative Perspective
PS 330: Political Economy of Development
PS 401: Political Inequality: Measures, Causes, Effects, Remedies
Graduate
PS 800: Political Science as a Discipline and Profession
PS 801: Dissertation Proposal Research and Writing
PS 817: Empirical Methods of Political Inquiry
PS 840: Comparative Political Economy
PS 843: Political Economy of Development
PS 856: Field Seminar in Comparative Politics
PS 948: Political Inequality: Measures, Causes, Effects, Remedies
PS 948: Democratic Imperfections
Awards:
2022-2023
Honorable Mention, MPSA 2023 Kenneth J. Meier Award for the best paper in bureaucratic politics, public administration, or public policy
2019-2020
Vilas Associates Award, Social Studies Division
2012-2013
Royal Economic Society Prize for the best unsolicited paper published in The Economic Journal in 2012, for “Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth.”
Hear from Professor Bhavnani on this episode of the 1050 Bascom Podcast!