Service

2008-09     Member, International Relations Curriculum Committee, The College of Wooster

2005 -08    Standing Group on Third World Politics, European Consortium of Political   Research

Memberships

International Political Science Association, German Political Science Association (DVPW), American Political Science Association, European Network for Contemporary Academic Research on India (ENCARI)

Grants and Awards

• 2007. Travel Grants from APSA and South Asia Institute, APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2007
• 2007. Travel Grant, German Research Foundation (DFG), MPSA Annual Conference, Chicago, 2007
• 2005. Visiting Doctoral Scholar Fellowship, Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi
• 2005. Travel and Fieldwork Grant (India), South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
• 2004. European Commission Grant for organization of Socrates Intensive Programs (seed grant) + German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), German Summer Academy grant for organization of the “Summer School in Modern South Asian Studies 2004” (Total: Euros 31,000)
• 2004. Travel Grant, Conference attendance 2004, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
• 2003. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), German Summer Academy grant for the organization of the “Summer School in Modern South Asian Studies 2003” (Total: Euros 23,400)
• 2002. Scholarship of the Institut du Fédéralisme, Université de Fribourg, Summer University Fellowship
• 1998. Erasmus Scholarship of the European Union, Study of Law at SOAS, University of London (1998-1999)

Conferences/Workshops

• 2009. Discussant. Panel "Democratic Transitions?", Annual Conference, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2009.
  
• 2008. Invited Participant. Midwest Faculty Seminar ("American Empire and the Exportation of Democracy"). University of Chicago, October 2008.
  
• 2008. Discussant, Panels “Space, Society and the Public Sphere” and “Ideas, Memory and History in Politics”, Annual Conference, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.
• 2007. Poster, “Democratic Backlash – Revisiting competing explanations for the 1977 post-Emergency electoral verdict in India”, Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 2007.
• 2007. Poster, “The Study of Politics in Germany: A bibliometric study of methods and subfields”, Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 2007.
• 2007. Paper Presentation, “Democratic Backlash – Revisiting competing explanations for the 1977 post-Emergency electoral verdict in India”, Annual Conference, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.
• 2006. In-house seminar presentation, Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi.
  
• 2005. Invited Lecture, “Peace and Conflict Research – An Overview”, University of Education Heidelberg, Peace Education Lecture Series, November 2005.
• 2005. Paper (co-authored and presented), “Democratic resilience in a non-western context: Party system, participation and judicialisation as contributors to democratic consolidation in India”, Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2005.
• 2004. Keynote presentation, “The Parliamentary Elections in India 2004: Evaluation and Prospects”, Indo-German Society, Annual Meeting, Stuttgart, September 2004.
• 2004. Discussant, Panel 34 (Changing Social Bases and the Dominance of Right Wing Ideologies), 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund/Sweden, July 2004.
• 2003. Paper (co-authored): ‘Floor Crossing and Nascent Democracies: A Neglected Aspect of Electoral Systems? The Current South African Debate in the Light of the Indian Experience’, Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, Philadelphia 2003.
• 2003. Invited Participant, Workshop on ‘Distribution of Powers and Responsibilities in Federal Polities: The case of Germany’, organized by the Institute for Federal Studies, University of Hannover and the Forum of Federations, July 2003 in Hanover/Germany.