Christopher Candland

Christopher Candland (Columbia, Ph.D.) teaches courses on Comparative Politics, Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, Politics of South Asia, Literature and Politics of South Asia, Politics of Community Development, and Ethnicity, Nationalism, Religion, and Violence. Candland's research focuses on the politics of labor, education, and health in South and Southeast Asia. Candland earned his B.A. from Haverford College, where he studied philosophy, religion, and fine arts.

Candland has published more than one dozen book chapters and several articles in peer-reviewed journals, including The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Critical Asian Studies, The Journal of International Affairs, New Political Economy, and Policy Sciences. Topics include constitutionalism in Indonesia; religious education in Pakistan; religion and community development in South and Southeast Asia; privatization patterns in South Asia; U.S. democratization initiatives in the Middle East; and trade and international labor standards. (Several of his publications – as well as course syllabi – are available at http://www.candland.info/.) His book Labor, Democracy, and Development in India and Pakistan will be published by Routledge in 2007. His co-edited volume The Politics of Labor in a Global Age was published by Oxford in 2001. His present research is on Islam and reproductive health in Indonesia and educational reform in Pakistan.

Candland has worked for the United Nations on disarmament, for the U.S. House of Representatives on trade and labor standards, and for the U.S. Department of State on international labor affairs.

Profile last updated: 12/06