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Harpreet Mahajan
International Affairs Building, Room 1514
Executive Director, Information Technology, SIPA
Phone: 212-854-8347
mahajan@sipa.columbia.edu
Fax: 212-864-4847
mahajan@columbia.edu
Biography:
Harpreet Mahajan is the executive director of information technology at the School of International and Public Affairs and adjunct professor of international and public affairs.
Her teaching interests include methodology and quantitative techniques for political science, policy research, international political economy, arms control, strategic studies, international relations, and world politics.
She was the executive director of IT, Institute for Social and Economic Theory and Research (ISERP) (1998–2003), a member of Taskforce on IT security at Columbia (2002-2003), and served on the advisory committee for the Electronic Data Service at Columbia (1994–99). She is a liaison with Columbia Information Technology.
Mahajan received her BS in Delhi, India (1973) and a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (1980). She holds a certificate from the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University (1980) and an MPhil from Columbia as well (1983). In addition, she received a certificate in Computer Technology and Applications from the Advanced Professional Training Program at Columbia (1997).
Search Categories: security, foreign policy
Publications:
Mahajan's publications include "Personal Computer" in Encyclopedia of International Media and Communication (2003); Peace and Disrupted Sovereignty: Reflections on Conflict Over Territory, with F. Kratochwil and P. Rohrlich (University Press of America 1985); Arms Transfer to India, Pakistan, and the Third World (Young Asia Publications 1981); "Gender Differences in Policy Preferences: A Summary of Trends from the 1960s to the 1980s," with R. Y. Shapiro in the Public Opinion Quarterly (1986); and "Indo-U.S. Relations during the Carter and Reagan Era: An Indian Perspective," a paper presented at the AAS annual meeting in San Francisco on March 25–27, 1988.