Curriculum Vitae: Danish Khan October 2019

DANISH KHAN

CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Economics, Phone: +1-413-801-2718 Bucknell University Email: [email protected] One Dent Drive, Lewisburg PA 17837

EDUCATION Ph.D. in Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, expected May 2020

Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Political Economy of Inequality Committee: Vamsi Vakulabharanam (chair), Michael Ash and Sripad Motiram

M.A. in Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2016

B.S. in Economics and International Studies, University of Utah, 2012

Primary Fields: Political Economy, Economic Development, Labor Studies. Secondary Fields: Urban Economics, Macroeconomics, Economic Geography, Applied Econometrics. RESEARCH Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals Khan, Danish (2018) “Urban Development by Dispossession: Planetary Urbanization and Primitive Accumulation”, Studies in Political Economy, Volume 99, Issue 3, pp. 307-330 (with Anirban Karak) Khan, Danish (2016) “Political Economy of the United States- Relationship: Reformulation of the Patron-Client Model”, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 51, Issue No. 30, 23 July 2016. Revise and Resubmit Khan, Danish (2019) “Precarious and Informal Labor: A Marxian Critique and Theoretical Reformulation of Labor Processes in ‘Postcolonial’ Capitalism”, Labor History (with Shahram Azhar)

Chapters in Edited Books Khan, Danish (2019) “Political Economy of State-Spatiality: Space, Class & Institutions in Postcolonial Pakistan” In Matthew McCartney and S Akbar Zaidi (Eds.), New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

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Curriculum Vitae: Danish Khan October 2019

Working Papers Khan, Danish (2018) “Re-conceptualizing Processes of Post-Colonial Development in Pakistan: The Interplay between Labor Processes and Institutions”, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), MA, USA, Working Paper No. 447.

Khan, Danish (2019) “Political economy of road networks: What happens to a local economy when a new road is built?”, Working Paper, International Growth Center (with Vamsi Vakulabharanam and Shahram Azhar) Khan, Danish (2020) “Slums and Human Development in ”, Introductory chapter, South Asia 2019, Mahbub-ul-Haq Research Center, LUMS (forthcoming)

Dissertation Essays: The ‘Slum Question’: Understanding the Creation, Demolition and Persistence of Slums in South Asia, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (job paper). Class, Gender and Spatiality in Urban Slums: Reconceptualizing the ‘Slum’ as a Site of Critical Analysis (dissertation essay) Infrastructure Development, Dispossession and Immiseration of Labor: Empirical Evidence from Postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan (dissertation essay)

Work in Progress Political Economy of ‘Favelas’ in Brazil: Analyzing Labor Processes through ‘Space and Surplus’ Approach (with Pedro de Almeida)

Patriarchal Mode of Production: Class and Gendered Labor Processes in South Asia (with Shahram Azhar)

Rethinking the Efficacy of ‘Good’ Governance in Postcolonial Transitional Democracies (with Aasim Sajjad Akhtar). Political Economy of the Conflict of Kashmir: A game theoretic model of Competitive Militarization (with Kartik Misra) TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Visiting Assistant Professor August 2019 --- May 2020 Department of Economics Bucknell University Courses: Economic Principles and Problems (Fall 2019, Spring 2020) Political Economy of Urban Development (Fall 2019) Intermediate Macroeconomics (Spring 2020)

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Lecturer Fall 2015 --- Spring 2016 Department of Economics Keene State College, New Hampshire Courses: Introduction to Macroeconomics (Fall 2015, Spring 2016)

Instructor/Teaching Associate Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Courses: Intermediate Macroeconomics (Summer 2019 online) Introduction to Political Economy (Summer 2015 online, Spring 2019 online)

Teaching Assistant Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Courses: Introduction to Macroeconomics (Fall 2013, Fall 2018) Introduction to Microeconomics (Fall 2014)

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

Asian Development Bank, Feb’2019 --- Aug’2019 National Specialist on Economic Corridor Development in Pakistan

Mahbub-ul-Haq Research Center, LUMS Spring 2019 Visiting Fellow

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Sep’2016---Sep’2017 & Planning Commission of Pakistan Research /Consultant

AWARDS & GRANTS I was awarded a Solomon Barkin 2018 dissertation award by department of economics, UMass- Amherst 2018 in recognition of significance and relevance of my dissertation with the real-world issues faced by labor and working-class people in the global South.

I was awarded a fellowship by Graduate School for promoting diversity and inclusivity at UMass-Amherst campus.

I received a reserach grant from International Growth Center (IGC) to study impact of infrastructural development on labor market and provision of public goods in Punjab, Pakistan (with Dr. Vamsi Vakulabharanam & Dr. Shahram Azhar)

I was awarded a dissertation research grant by American Institute of Pakistan Studies to do research on slums in Islamabad, Pakistan

I was awarded a dissertation Grant by Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), UMass- Amherst to study political economy of inequality in slum settlements of Islamabad, Pakistan.

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I received distinction in Ph.D. comprehensive exam of Political Economy, UMass-Amherst

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS

“Political Economy of the Slum-Question in Postcolonial Capitalism: Accumulation, Dispossession and Urban Inequality in Pakistan”, Faculty Presentation Series, Department of Economics, Bucknell University, November, 2019

“Rethinking Precariat in the Post-Colonial Context: An Empirical Examination of Slum Settlements in Pakistan”, Union of Radical Political Economics 50th Anniversary Conference at UMass-Amherst, September 2018 (with Shahram Azhar)

“Political Economy of Unequal provision of public goods in urban slums of Pakistan”, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts April 05, 2017.

“Urban Spatial Reconfiguration: Moments of Accumulation by Dispossession”, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, April 02, 2016.

“Re-conceptualizing the Conflict of Kashmir: A case of competitive Militarization”, South Asia Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, October 2015 (with Kartik Misra)

“Conceptualizing transition in post-colonial states: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory” Left Forum, John Jay College, , May 2015.

“Re-conceptualizing the Conflict of Kashmir: A Game Theoretical Model”, Critical Agrarian Studies and Political Economy workshop, UMass-Amherst, September 2015.

SHORT ARTICLES Khan, Danish (2018) “Coercion from Above and Consent from Below”, Dawn, book review of The Politics of Common Sense: State, Culture and Society in Pakistan, by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, India. Khan, Danish (2017) “The Relationship between development and inequality”, Development Insight, Planning Commission of Pakistan, Islamabad. Khan, Danish (2017) “Beyond corruption: Re-conceptualising the political economy of Pakistan”, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, South Asia Blog LSE, 07 Feb 2017. Khan, Danish (2016) “The economics of land reforms”, The News International, February 22, 2016 Khan, Danish (2016) “Feminism makes economic sense”, The News International, January 10, 2016

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Khan, Danish (2015) “The hegemony of Neoliberal policies”, The News International, May 31, 2015

SERVICE EGSO representative on undergraduate curriculum committee Economics Department, UMass-Amherst

Member, Allocation Committee, Economics Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) Economics Department, UMass-Amherst

SKILLS Proficient in STATA, E-Views Languages: English (proficient), Kashmiri (native), (proficient) REFERENCES

Vamsi Vakulabharanam (Chair) Michael Ash Associate Professor of Economics, Professor of Public Policy & Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst University of Massachusetts-Amherst Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Sripad Motiram Geoff Schneider Associate Professor of Economics, Professor and co-chair of Economics University of Massachusetts-Boston Bucknell University [email protected] [email protected]

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