Rudra Sil

RS

Professor, Department of Political Science

215-898-7661

236 Stiteler Hall

Education

Ph.D. (1996) University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

Book-length study comparing the transformation of labor politics in India, Japan and Russia, with an emphasis on novel forms of collective action and labor solidarity emerging in the course of economic reform and competitive pressures linked to globalization; Articles on qualitative research, comparative-historical methods and philosophy of the social sciences

Courses Taught

Political Change in the “Third World”; Politics of Development