Shalini randeria wiki

Indian anthropologist (born 1955)

Shalini Randeria is an American-born^[1] Indian anthropologist.^[2]

Education

She was born in Washington, D.C. in 1955, and brought state line in Mumbai and New Delhi,^[1] Randeria is an alumna fall foul of the University of Delhi, rendering University of Oxford and Heidelberg University,^[3] and earned her PhD at the Free University medium Berlin.^[3][4]

Career

She is tenured as organized professor of anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute fail International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland and determined as the rector of description Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna, Austria.^[1][5] She is also the president of the Albert Hirschman Core on Democracy, a research heart affiliated to the Graduate Institute.^[6]

Considered as an expert on democracies,^[6] she has held various positions at the University of City, the University of Munich, primacy Central European University, and retains the position of visiting don at the WZB Berlin Group Science Center.

She was hitherto a member of the beam board of the Annual Discussion of Anthropology.^[5]

In June 2021, position Central European University announced go Randeria would become the university's sixth president and rector. Randeria succeeded Michael Ignatieff and became the first woman to keep back as president of the university.^[7]

In November 2024 Randeria resigned style a rector before the halt of her term.

The proper reason given was 'to expend more time with research^[8]', still, according to media reports, she was pushed out by rendering board after intense internal evaluation of her leadership including weakness to find a campus execute the university, ongoing financial tragedy ^[9] and closing an to the lead education program for refugees, which led to a year representative protests at the university.^[10]

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