Francine R. Frankel

Who is Francine R. Frankel?

Francine R. Frankel is Founding Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. An authority on India's politics, economics and foreign policy, she spent Academic Year 2006-07 at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars completing a book on U.S. and India foreign policy using declassified documents and archival sources.

Frankel received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1965, after completing her Masters from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1958. Additionally, Frankel has been a research scholar at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, the Delhi School of Economics, The Institute for Advanced Study, and Princeton University.