Praveen K. Chaudhry, PhD

Education

BA, MA, MPhil, University of Delhi
PhD, University of Pennsylvania

2009-10 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities

Biography

Praveen K. Chaudhry is a recipient of the State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor's Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities. Before joining FIT, Professor Chaudhry taught at Swarthmore College, Lafayette College, Ohio University, University of Pennsylvania and University of Delhi. From 2004 to 2011, he was a visiting research fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India: during this period, he produced several books.

He was a Visiting Fellow at the Office of the Executive Director (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan), International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC. The publications connected with this fellowship dealt with the relationships between the United States and IMF and were translated into several languages. He was also a Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela  Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is involved in SUNY COIL with a focus on MENA countries, specifically Lebanon where he offers courses on Human Rights and International Relations. He serves on the International Political Science Association (IPSA) committee on Visual Politics (RC04)

Professor Chaudhry has carried out extensive research and interviews and has lectured in Asia, Europe, and South America. His recent works have focused on conducting visual ethnographic research on the impact of globalization, problems of state formation, and understanding resistance movements through the eyes of nomadic peoples and weavers in the Kashmir, parts of the Tibetan Plateau, and Taurus Mountains in Turkey.  As a visual ethnographer, the evolutionary processes of this project have been on display in multiple galleries.

Selected Publications

Books and Chapters

Chaudhry, Praveen K., Marta Vanduzer-Snow, United States and India: The Formative Years through Declassified Documents, Sage Publishers, 2008, also Kindle Edition

Chaudhry, Praveen K., Marta Vanduzer-Snow, United States and India: The Later Years through Declassified Documents (Two Volumes), Sage Publishers, 2011 also Kindle Edition

Chaudhry, Praveen K., Vijay Kelkar, Marta Vanduzer-Snow, V. Bhaskar, Reforming the International Monetary Fund: Towards Enhanced Accountability and Legitimacy, in Reforming the Governance of the IMF and the World Bank, Ariel Buira (ed), Anthem Press 2005

Papers

Chaudhry, Praveen. K., Chasing a dying river: The Yamuna in Delhi. London School of Economics. 2024

Chaudhry, Praveen K., The Rise of BRICS, Sept 2015

Chaudhry, Praveen K., Vijay Kelkar, Marta Vanduzer-Snow, A Time for Change at the IMF, Finance and Development, March 2005

Chaudhry, Praveen.  K., Kelkar, Vijay, Yadav, Vikash, Reforming the Governance of International Monetary Fund, The World Economy, Volume 27, Issue 5, 2004

Chaudhry, Praveen. K., Kelkar, Vijay. Yadav, Vikash, The Evolution of “Homegrown Conditionality” in India – IMF Relations, Journal of Development Studies, Volume 40, No.6, August 2004

Selected Exhibitions

Weavers of Oaxaca. State University of New York-FIT. 2025 (upcoming) 

Fotomatter Collective 1.0. Rochester Community and Technical College. Rochester, MN. 2024 (upcoming)    

On the River. University of Wisconsin-River Falls. 2024

Vanishing Community, Vanishing Culture: The invisible nomads and weavers. Gallery DotWalk, India. 2024

Chasing a Dying River: Ghat 24, Yamuna, Delhi. State University of New York-FIT. 2023

New York City: Pandemic, Resilience, and Hope, The Art and Design Gallery at FIT, New York City, 2021
Video: Virtual Artists Talks Series: Praveen K. Chaudhry on New York City: Pandemic, Resilience and Hope

Vanishing Community, Vanishing Cultures: The Yörüks of Taurus Mountains, Turkey
Watch the documentary on FilmFreeway

Gallery at Gladys Marcus Library, FIT, New York City, 2020
View selected images from the exhibit

Museo de La Ciudad de Cuernavaca (MuCIC) September, 2019

Invisible Nomads of Himalayas: A life Caught in Turmoil (also a book project in progress)
Read Dr. Joyce F. Brown's note on her blog
Watch the documentary on FilmFreeway

Café Galería Amparo, Puebla City, Mexico, 2017

Teatro Cine Morelos (Morelos Cinema), Cuernavaca, Mexico 2016

Museo Casa del Risco, Mexico City, Mexico, 2016

Tecnológico de Monterrey, Querétaro, Mexico, 2016

Marvin Feldman Center FIT, New York City, 2016

Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico, 2015

Galerie Romain Rolland - Alliance Française de Delhi, India, 2011

Courses

• SS 151 Introduction to World Affairs
• SS 202 Bollywood and the Making of India
• SS 354 Comparative Political Systems
• SS 356 Asia in Motion
• SS 397 Religion and Global Politics (Honors)
• SS 444 Senior Thesis
• GF 621 Politics & World Trade Today (Graduate Seminar)