Rudra Sil is Professor of Political Science and the SAS Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and has been teaching at Penn since 1996. His scholarly interests encompass comparative politics, international development, the politics of labor, Russian and Asian studies, qualitative methodology, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He is also an elected board member of the Committee on Concepts and Methods of IPSA, the International Political Science Association. Sil is author, co-author or co-editor of seven books. These include a sole-authored book, Managing ‘Modernity’: Work, Community, and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia (University of Michigan Press, 2002), and the volume Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications (Oxford University Press, 2018), coedited with Ariel Ahram and Patrick Koellner. He is also author of three dozen articles and book chapters, including “The Fate of Labor After Regime Change: Lessons From Post-Communist Poland and Post-Apartheid South Africa For Tunisia’s Nobel-Prize Winning Unions,” published in Economic and Industrial Democracy (with Ian M. Hartshorn). His other peer-reviewed articles have appeared in such journals as Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Post-Soviet Affairs. Sil’s most recent paper on labor – coauthored with former Penn Ph.D. student, Allison Evans – was awarded the 2019 Dorothy Day Award for Outstanding Labor Scholarship.