Msu Honors College

Siddharth Chandra is a professor in James Madison College at Michigan State University and director of the Asian Studies Center. Siddharth’s research interests include behavior and policy relating to addictive substances, the intersection of economics, health, and history in Asia, and applications of portfolio theory to fields outside finance. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for his research, which has been published in a variety of journals. At James Madison College, he teaches a senior seminar titled “Drug policy from Asia to America,” in which students learn about different approaches to drug policy in Asia and the USA. Siddharth earned his doctorate from Cornell University.