{"id":10306,"date":"2023-10-06T10:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10306"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:19:45","slug":"vidhu-mukundan","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/profile\/vidhu-mukundan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vidhu Mukundan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vidhu Priya Mukundan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ph.D. student, Department of Political Science, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>MA in International Affairs, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, 2022<\/p>\n<p>MSc in Political Economy of Development, SOAS University of London, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:vpmn@bu.edu\">vpmn@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vidhu Priya Mukundan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. Her research seeks to understand the understudied gendered element of clientelism in urban democracies. Specifically, Vidhu\u2019s research seeks to understand how women in urban India participate in claim-making and the role of women\u2019s social networks in improving their interaction with the state in the urban context. With her work, Vidhu aims to better understand the social and structural barriers to women\u2019s access to the state and how women mobilize in response to these barriers.<\/p>\n<p>Vidhu holds an MA in International Affairs (specialization in Global Economic Affairs) from the BU Pardee School of Global Studies and an MSc in Political Economy of Development from SOAS University of London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><br \/>\nCurriculum Vitae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20029,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10604,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10306\/revisions\/10604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}