Thursday, March 25th, 2021 How Embedded Interventions Controlled Contagion: Ideas, Institutions and the First Vaccine in China and India

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Prerna Singh is Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University. Singh is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, serves on the academic advisory board of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the steering committee of the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown, and co-convenes the Brown-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar in South Asian Politics. She studied at Princeton, Cambridge and Delhi Universities, and taught previously at Harvard University. Singh has published numerous award-winning books and articles on questions of human development, public health, ethnicity and nationalism. Her first book, How Solidarity Works for Welfare was awarded best book prizes from both the American Political Science and the American Sociological Associations. Singh has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the Andrew Carnegie foundation, the American Academy of Berlin, the SSRC, the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Singh has shared her research with scholarly, policy and popular audiences in over a hundred lectures delivered across twenty different countries. Singh is presently working on two book projects. The first, tentatively entitled Embedded Interventions: Vaccines, Viruses, and Public Health in China and India compares the differences in the popular uptake of vaccines and consequently the control of infectious diseases with a focus on China and India across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second is a book on the potential of, and challenges to constructing an inclusive nationalism.