King Center welcomes two new postdoctoral fellows for 2020 - 2021
Nirvikar Jassal and Madeline McKelway will join the King Center on Global Development as postdoctoral fellows for the 2020 - 2021 academic year.
Jassal’s research focuses on gender, sexual violence, ethnic conflict and hate crime, and policing with a regional focus on South Asia. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the American Political Science Review and Asian Survey. He completed his PhD from the University of California—Berkeley in 2020 and previously worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and in the New York City government.
“Thank you for welcoming me to Stanford and the King Center community,” said Jassal. “I hope that, despite the crisis, I shall have the chance to meet with the wider Stanford community (even virtually). My research focuses on policing and violence in the Subcontinent. The major projects I am currently working on include a text-as-data analysis of violence in India as well as one on the effect of economic shocks on crime. Relatedly, I’ve been working on a study about how the creation of new subnational borders affects development and conflict-related outcomes in the region.”
McKelway's research is in development economics, more specifically focusing on the empowerment and employment of women in India. She received her PhD in economics from MIT and in July 2021 McKelway will become an assistant professor in the economics department at Dartmouth College.
"During my time at the King Center,” said McKelway. “I will continue my dissertation research on the empowerment and employment of women in India. I also hope to work on new projects touching on mental health, gender, and labor supply in poor settings. I look forward to learning about research happening at the King Center and across campus."
