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Several UofL faculty members participate in CAD research, allowing for varied interdisciplinary perspectives on topics related to democracy in Asia. The core CAD research faculty have special expertise in issues including religious nationalism, varieties of colonialism, authoritarianism, political economy, and grassroots political contention.
Faculty Research
Email: rodger.payne@louisville.edu
Profile: Rodger A. Payne
Phone: 502-852-3316
- Kurt Mills and Rodger A. Payne. "America First and the human rights regime." Journal of Human Rights 19, no. 4 (2020): 399-424.
- Payne, Rodger. "Cooperative Security in the Indian Ocean Region." in The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy, Ensuring Access and Promoting Security. Ed. by Peter Dombrowski and Andrew C. Winner. Georgetown University Press (2014): 119-138.
- Rodger A. Payne and Nayef H. Samhat. Democratizing global politics: Discourse norms, international regimes, and political community. SUNY Press, 2004.
Email: siddhant.issar@louisville
Profile: Siddhant Issar
- Siddhant Issar. Reckoning with Racial Capitalism: Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Left Critique Beyond Neoliberalism. Columbia University Press, 2026
- Siddhant Issar. “Agrarian Labor, Property, and Locke: Fashioning a Transnational Political Theory of Colonization.” Political Theory, 51(1) (2023), 262-270.
- Siddhant Issar. "Theorising Racial/Colonial Primitive Accumulation: Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and Racial Capitalism." Race & Class, 63(1) (2021), 23-50.
- Lisa Björkman Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai University of Minnesota Press, 2025
- Lisa Björkman Bombay Brokers Duke University Press, 2021
- Lisa Björkman and Patton Burchett. 2021. “The Value of Tantra: Markets, Modernity, and Mumbai’s Master of Mantra,” Journal of American Academy of Religion, 89(3): 885-908.
- Lisa Björkman Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai Duke University Press, 2015
- Thad Dunning, et al. Voter information campaigns and political accountability: Cumulative findings from a preregistered meta-analysis of coordinated trials. Science Advances 2019
- 2019 Meta-analysis (with Thad Dunning, Clara Bicalho, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan Hyde, Craig Mcintosh and Gareth Nellis) in Information, Accountability and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I. Cambridge University Press.
- 2017 Do Gram Panchayats Get Their Money? A Case Study of Gram Panchayat Fund Flows in Birbhum District, West Bengal (with Ambrish Dongre and Yamini Aiyar) in Decentralisation, Governance and Development: An Indian Perspective. Orient Black Swan.
Prof. Fowler has published recent book chapters in Chinese Legality: Ideology, Law, and Institutions and The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War. Professor Fowler has served as a two-time Fulbright Scholar to Japan at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa. He lectured at Bond University in Australia and presented a two-week seminar for professors from across China at the China Foreign Affairs University. Through the Program for International Studies in Asia, he has taught on multiple occasions at the training wings of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam and Laos. Fowler published an edited volume, Envisioning Reform: Enhancing UN Accountability in the Twenty-First Century, alongside former UN Assistant Secretary-General Sumihiro Kuyama.
- The Chinese Dream and Law: The Third Surge of Utopianism, 2012-2024, (SUNY Press, 2025).
- Chinese Legal Culture and Constitutional Order, (London: Routledge, 2019), Winner of “Best Publication Award for Original Research,” Association of Chinese Professors in Social Sciences (USA).
- Chinese Political Culture, 1989-2000, (Routledge, 2016).
Dr. Rauf's research involves the use of census-level administrative data from multiple sources across decades to develop large observational village-level datasets for Sufi Khanaqahs in India. This allows for rigorous statistical analysis and causal inference with multiple placebo tests and instrumental variable analysis, illuminating the channels of persistence. In addition to quantitative methods, he employs multi-site and multi-method qualitative fieldwork, including archival research, participant observation and in-depth interviews, to elaborate on the institutional differences in coordination mechanisms.
- Russia in the Pacific: The Quest for Great Power Recognition (Oxford University Press, 2024)
- Charles E. Ziegler, "Filling the Void Left by Great-Power Retrenchment: Russia, Central Asia, and the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan" Texas National Security Review, Vol. 7, Issue 4 (Fall 2024),
- Tricia Gray and Charles E. Ziegler, "Gender politics in Costa Rica: from descriptive to substantive representation," Politics, Groups and Interests, 22 July 2024
Profile: Khasan Redjaboev
Dr. Redjaboev is working on a book project, State Patriarchy: Forced Labor and the Making of Progressive Authoritarianism in Eurasia. It offers new theoretical and empirical insights into how authoritarian social outcomes emerged through forced labor extraction, and how progressive authoritarian policies shape development and political behavior.