Mark Frazier is Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research and Co-Director of the India China Institute at The New School (New York City). He is the author of The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth Century Shanghai and Bombay (2019), Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (2010), The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace (2002), and co-editor of Constrained Expertise in India and China: Knowledge and Power in Policymaking (Amsterdam University Press, 2025). In 2025-26, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Visiting Researcher at National Taiwan University, for a project on the politics of population aging in Taiwan and China.