Dr. Preya Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor
Dr. Preya Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, at The Dr. Mack Henry Jones Department of Political Science, Clark Atlanta University (August 2024-Present). Before joining CAU, she was an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Political Science, Xavier University of Louisiana (August 2023-May 2024); a Postdoctoral Fellow, at The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology (January 2023-July 2023); and an Adjunct Faculty, at the Department of Political Science, Kent State University (August 2020-May 2022). She is currently working on her second monograph, “Microfinance and Post-Conflict Women’s Empowerment in the Balkans: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis”, to be published with Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. She has also published a monograph on, “An Introduction to Panel Data QCA in R, with Chapman & Hall/ CRC Press (August 2024); an edited anthology textbook, on International Relations, titled "The Global Politics Reader: A Foundational Anthology”, with Cognella Academic Publishing (August 2023), and articles on “How to build and analyze a panel data QCA Model? A Methodological Note”, with Methodological Innovations (July 2023), and “What is Ragin’s Indirect Method of Calibration?”, with International Journal of Social Research Methodology, (August 2022).
International Political Economy, International Peace and Security, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development, Panel-data Qualitative, Comparative Analysis (QCA), Mixed and Multi-Method Research, Gender Equality and Development, European Union and the Balkans.