Priyam finished her PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan in May 2018 and joined TCPD as its Associate Director. She completed her BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue in 2009 after which she spent 3 years in the Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame before moving to Michigan in 2012. She is interested in understanding the dynamics of political and social change using multiple forms of evidence such as government sources, newspapers, NGO reports and survey data.
