Reflections on an Economist’s Journey with Research Examples

As a labor economist and academic administrator from New Mexico who studies socioeconomic outcomes of Hispanic/Latino groups in the United States, Dr. Marie Mora will share reflections about her journey, including why and how she became an economist. She will also provide an overview of her recent research, including how Puerto Rico’s severe economic crisis and Hurricane Maria have affected Puerto Ricans on the island and U.S. mainland.

Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India

Dr. Shivaji Mukherjee works on political violence and conflict in India, and do research on insurgencies in South Asia, particularly focusing on the Maoist insurgency in India. He also has an interest in state formation, legacies of colonial institutions, and other types of political violence in South Asia like the Kashmir insurgency and Hindu-Muslim violence and vigilantism. His book, "Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India", shows that different forms of colonial indirect rule and indirect land tenure created weak state capacity and land inequalities which persisted and facilitated post-colonial Maoist insurgency in India, and urges the civil war scholarship to take history seriously.