Francine R. Frankel (born 1935) is founding director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India[1] and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
[2][3] An authority on India's politics, economics and foreign policy,[4] she spent Academic Year 2006-07 at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars[5] completing a book on U.S. and India foreign policy using declassified documents and archival sources.
Additionally, Frankel has been a research scholar at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and the Delhi School of Economics in New Delhi, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Princeton University.
[6] In 1992, Frankel founded the Center for the Advanced Study of India, the only academic research center in the United States for the study of India.
[7] The Center collaborates with other institutions in the US, India and elsewhere to carry out its goal of nurturing a new generation of scholars across disciplines and providing a forum for dialogue among the academic, business and foreign policy communities.