Prerna Singh

About

Prerna Singh is the Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University, with additional appointments in the School of Public Health and the Department of Sociology. Her research spans human development, public health, ethnicity, and nationalism, with numerous award-winning books and articles. Her first book, "How Solidarity Works for Welfare," received best book awards from both the American Political Science Association and the American Sociological Association. Singh has been recognized with fellowships from prestigious institutions including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the Social Science Research Council, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the American Academy of Berlin, the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. She has delivered over a hundred lectures, including keynote addresses, across more than twenty countries, engaging scholarly, policy, and popular audiences. Singh has served on the academic advisory board of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the steering committee of the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University. She is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and co-convenes the Brown-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar in South Asian Politics. Additionally, she serves on the editorial board of Cambridge University Press's Studies in Comparative Politics and…

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Geography
• Linguistics
• Law
• Environmental science
• Political economy
• Oceanography
• Geology

Selected publications

• Populism, Nationalism, and Nationalist Populism

  Studies in Comparative International Development · 2021 · 47 citations

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• How Exclusionary Nationalism Has Made the World Socially Sicker from COVID-19

  Nationalities Papers · 2021-10-20 · 22 citations

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  Abstract COVID-19 struck a world already suffering under a scourge – a rash of right-wing populist, exclusionary nationalisms. Whether it is Donald Trump in the USA, Vladimir Putin in Russia, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Orbán in Hungary, Modi in India, the past decade the world has witnessed the rise of leaders claiming the nation for dominant ethnic groups, excluding and targeting ethnic minorities and immigrants. In this article I argue that this preexisting plague of exclusionary nationalism has mad…

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• The Politics of Contagion: States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases

  Annual Review of Political Science · 2024-04-15 · 4 citations

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  The study of contagion offers important but underexplored opportunities to rethink and advance our understanding of key concepts in political science. These include notably state capacity; social policy; state–society relations, especially the role of trust; nationalism and social solidarity; exclusionary dynamics, such as xenophobia, prejudice, and discrimination; and within political psychology, the role of emotions, including disgust. This article reviews studies on contagion and health withi…

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• Exercise, Body Image and Self-Esteem: A Review

  International Journal of Current Science Research and Review · 2025-03-26 · 1 citations

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  This review of literature examines the relationship between exercise, body-image and self-esteem. The relationship between exercise, body image, and self-esteem has gathered significant focus in studies of psychological and health. This review of literature highlights the evolution of this field’s research over several decades. Findings consistently show that regular exercise positively impacts body image and self-esteem across various population reporting greater body satisfaction and improved…

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• Comparative Historical Analysis

  2024-03-26 · 1 citations

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  Abstract Comparative historical analysis (CHA) is a long-standing, influential research tradition, which has generated foundational texts of political science and sociology as well as 20th-century “classics.” It continues to foster scholarship committed to asking “big” questions of substantial real-world importance and developing, in response, novel theoretical frameworks that push beyond conventional wisdoms. CHA’s theory is inductively developed through in-depth case study comparisons of a sma…

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Frequent coauthors

• Zoya Riyaz Syeda

  Jacksonville College

  64 shared

• Mounika Erukulla

  China Medical University

  64 shared

• Nikhil Deep Kolanu

  Misr University for Science and Technology

  64 shared

• Nandan Joshi

  Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat

  64 shared

• Abhisek Chatterjee

  Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

  11 shared

• P. Karthikeyan

  9 shared

• S Anjana

  Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

  9 shared

• B. Balaji

  6 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Department of Politics

  Princeton University

• M.A and 2nd B.A, Social and Political Sciences

  University of Cambridge

  2002

• B.A (Honours), Economics

  St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University

  2000

Awards & honors

• brainy award from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation
• Berlin Prize from the American Academy of Berlin
• Stanley and Priscilla Kochanek Prize from the American Insti…
• Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship from Prince…
• fellow of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research (CIFAR…

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