Mark Schneider is a student of Indian politics. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan advised by Prof. Ashutosh Varshney he wrote his thesis on the topic of change over time in levels of Hindu-Muslim violence in urban India. This involved fieldwork in the formerly riot-prone western Uttar Pradesh town of Meerut City. As a PhD student Mark's work focuses on political behavior, voter-party linkages, and intra-party politics. This work addresses topics such as patterns of partisanship, the mechanisms of ethnic voting (in progress including a test of the Kanchan Chandra's (2004) Head Counting hypothesis), and plans for a future paper on new party success. Mark's dissertation will focus on intra-party politics with attention to the relationship between electoral incentives and intra-party dynamics across parties and districts. Mark Schneider is also the founder of the South Asia Political Science Network (http://www.columbia.edu/~mas2215/sapsn/), which is a web site that connects South Asia political science scholars together and serves as a resource for community building and fieldwork among South Asianists.