Chandrika Rajagopal, Ph.D.

Biographical Information

Chandrika Rajagopal received her Undergraduate and Masters degrees in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. She completed her doctoral degree in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Minnesota in 1985. After moving from Minneapolis to Michigan to Washington DC, she and her family settled down in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for almost fifteen years. During this time, Chandrika worked in a small business, engineering research and consulting firm in western Pennsylvania. While in Pittsburgh, she also served as the founding chairperson for the Indian Nationality Room project at the University of Pittsburgh, and discovered a passion for fundraising and development. She assisted her committee and her community to be the first in the history of the Nationality Rooms Program to raise the funds, design, construct and dedicate a classroom in less than seven and a half years. Chandrika moved to College Station in 1997 where her husband had accepted a faculty position in the mechanical engineering department at Texas A&M University. Her duties include working with international faculty and teaching assistants, and leading the development efforts of the CTE.