Fellows

Julia Lynch is a political scientist who studies the comparative politics of health and social policies in advanced industrial democracies, particularly Western Europe and North America. For the last ten years, her research has centered on three themes: public beliefs about equity in the realm of health and health care, mainly in the United States; the relationship between health and home mortgage foreclosure, again mainly in the United States; and the politics of policymaking surrounding health inequalities by race, gender, socioeconomic status, and region in the United States and Europe. Prof. Lynch is a former fellow of the SSRC’s International

William Mazzarella is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Chicago. He writes and teaches on mass media, globalization, public culture and consumerism, critical theory, commodity aesthetics, and post-coloniality in contemporary India. His first book, Shoveling Smoke (Duke UP, 2003), is an ethnography of the Bombay advertising business and its role in the rise and elaboration of mass consumerism in India in the 1980s and 1990s. Mazzarella’s current projects include a book on censorship, cinema, and mediation in modern India. He also serves as Chair on the Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. He received his