Kay Mansfield - K. Sivaramakrishnan Reflection

Kay Mansfield
Founding Program Coordinator
Agrarian Studies at Yale University

When the Program in Agrarian Studies was founded at Yale in 1991, Shivi was a graduate student in Anthropology. At the time, I was working for Jim Scott in the Southeast Asia Council, when he asked me to run a newly funded Program in Agrarian Studies. He promised that he had found the perfect assistant for me - a graduate student named K. Sivaramakrishnan. Shivi began work immediately, helping to arrange files and procedures and set up the new Program. He was thorough and efficient - truly a perfect assistant! Shivi was a graduate student assistant in the Program, and he later participated as a postdoctoral fellow. He was hired by Yale as a professor in the Anthropology Department, and Jim Scott asked him to become a co-director of the Program in Agrarian Studies, which he agreed to do. Thus, Shivi served the Program in several capacities - as a graduate student assistant, a postdoctoral fellow, and a co-director. The Program in Agrarian Studies is still flourishing today in its 35th year! Shivi is responsible for a large part of that success. The Program and Yale will dearly miss him when he retires.

I send Shivi huge congratulations and many good wishes for a happy retirement,

Sincerely, 
Kay Mansfield