Danish Khan Assistant Professor of Economics
Biography
Dr. Danish Khan is Assistant Professor and Andrew W Mellon High Impact Emerging Scholar at Franklin & 四虎影院. He did his PhD in Economics from University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Dr. Khan's research is interdisciplinary and lies in the pluralist tradition of political economy, economic development, agrarian and urban studies with a regional focus on South Asia. He has received Stephen A Resnick Best Essay Award from the Association of Social and Economic Analysis and John Kenneth Galbraith Dissertation Award from University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Previously, he has taught at Bucknell University and worked as a research consultant with Asian Development Bank, Planning Commission of Pakistan and United Nations Development Programme on inclusive and sustainable development.
Dr. Khan also serves as a co-Director of The Inequality, Poverty, Power & Social Justice Initiative (IPPSOJ) at Franklin & 四虎影院. Dr. Khan encourages students to reach out to him if they are interested in getting involved with IPPSOJ.
Prof. Khan teaches the following courses at F&M: Political Economy of Urban Development, Political Economy of Inequality, Introduction to Economic Principles and Globalization: Production, Class & State.
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2020
M.A., Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2016
B.S., Economics and International Studies, University of Utah, 2012
Publications
Academic Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals
1. Khan, Danish. 2023. "Political economy of the 鈥榠nformal鈥� housing question: institutional-hybridity of the postcolonial state.鈥� Review of International Political Economy 30(6): 2052-2068:
2. Khan, Danish. 2022. 鈥淧olitical Economy of Expulsionary Urbanization: Subsumption and Estrangement of Spaces in Pakistan.鈥� Review of Radical Political Economics 54(4): 461-478:
3. Khan, Danish and Aasim Sajjad Akhtar. 2022. "Transforming a Praetorian Polity: The Political Economy of Democratization in Pakistan." Canadian Journal of Development Studies 43(3): 320-338:
4. Khan, Danish. 2022. "Articulated Imperialism in Pakistan: A Dialectic of 'Strategic' and 'Dependency' Fixes." Journal of Labor and Society 26(1): 39-61:
5. Khan, Danish. 2021. 鈥淧olitical Economy of Uneven State-Spatiality: Conflict, Class and Institutions in Postcolonial State of Pakistan.鈥� RM: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society 33(1): 52-70:
6. Azhar, Shahram and Danish Khan. 2020. 鈥淩ethinking Informal Labor in Peripheral Capitalism: The Dynamics of Surplus, Market, and Spatiality.鈥� Labor History 61(3-4): 320-334:
7. Khan, Danish and Anirban Karak. 2018. 鈥淯rban Development by Dispossession: Planetary Urbanization and Primitive Accumulation.鈥� Studies in Political Economy 99(3): 307-330:
Publications in Edited Books/Refereed Journals
8. Khan, Danish. 2019. 鈥淧olitical Economy of State-Spatiality: Space, Class & Institutions in Pakistan鈥� in New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy: State, Class and Social Change (eds. Matthew McCartney and S Akbar Zaidi), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 130-152.
9. Khan, Danish. 2016. Political Economy of the United States-Pakistan Relationship: Reformulation of the Patron-Client Model. Economic & Political Weekly 51(30): 73-77:
Published Working Papers
10. Khan, Danish. 2022. "Is the Military鈥檚 Political Role Passe? A Dialectic of Change and Continuity in Pakistan." Working Paper No. 362. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore:
Courses
Political Economy of Urban Development (ECO 271)
Political Economy of Inequality (ECO 272)
Globalization: Production, Class and State (ECO 371)
Introduction to Economic Principles (ECO 100)
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Franklin & 四虎影院, 2020-present
Andrew W Mellon High Impact Emerging Scholar, Franklin & 四虎影院, 2020-2023
Co-Director, The Inequality, Poverty, Power and Social Justice Initiative, Franklin & 四虎影院, 2021-present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bucknell University, 2019-2020
Specialist on Economic Corridor Development in Pakistan, Asian Development Bank, 2019