Date:
Location:
"Seeing Like a Business: Privatized Service Delivery and Trust in Urban Pakistan"
Speaker:
Erum Haider, Assistant Professor in Political Science and Environmental Studies, College of Wooster.
Contact:
Carlin Carr
carlincarr@fas.harvard.edu
The Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics is co-sponsored by the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and South Asia Institute at Harvard University, and the MIT Center for International Studies.
Speaker Bio:
Erum Haider is Assistant Professor in Political Science and Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster. She received her PhD from Georgetown University, Department of Government, and is the recipient of the USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar pre-doctoral fellowship for 2019-20. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Mahbub ul Haq Research Center in Lahore, Pakistan. Haider studies the privatization of public goods. Her doctoral research examined the ability of citizens to use political representatives to lobby for better provision. Her research primarily takes place in Karachi, Pakistan.
