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Neema Kudva's research focuses on international urbanization particularly issues related to small cities and their regions, and on institutional structures for equitable planning and development at the local level. She has explored various aspects of the role of public agencies and nongovernmental organizations in planning and development (primarily in South Asia but also in the U.S.). She is currently working on a monograph that focuses on a rapidly growing smaller city and its region in southwestern India and on an edited reader (with Faranak Miraftab) on cities across the global south. Kudva directs the International Studies in Planning Program, and is the faculty lead for the Nilgiris Field Learning Center, a collaborative program of Cornell University and the Keystone Foundation, India. At Cornell, she is affiliated with the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, the South Asia Studies Program at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Visual Studies Program at Cornell, and is a faculty fellow at Carl Becker House. She is also the cochair (2009–11) for the Global Planning Educators Interest Group at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Prior to joining CRP in 2001, she worked as a planning consultant to public agencies in San Francisco and as an architect in India and Europe. Kudva received her Dip.Arch. from the school of architecture at Ahmedabad, India, in 1989 and her M.Arch./M.C.P. and Ph.D. from the University of California–Berkeley in 2001.