SIDDHARTH CHANDRA
Director, Asian Studies Center, Professor, James Madison College, and Professor (by courtesy), Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University
Recent publications
Chandra, Siddharth, Rajiv Sarkar and Banseilang Rynjah. 2024. "Birth Patterns in the Aftermath of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in India: the Case of Madras City," Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 18(7):e13355.
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Bjarnadottir, Margret, Siddharth Chandra, Greg Midgette and Pengfei He. 2024. “Analyzing Illegal Psychostimulant Trafficking Networks Using Noisy and Sparse Data,” IISE Transactions 56(3): 269-81.
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Chandra, Siddharth and Madhur Chandra. 2024. "Designing a Research Study," Chapter 7 in Leong, Frederick T.L. and James T. Austin, The Psychology Research Handbook: A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants. Third edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
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Chandra, Siddharth and Teng Zhang. 2023. “Glimpses of Indonesia’s 1965 Massacre through the Lens of the Census: the Role of Civilian Organizations in the Mass Anti-Communist Killings of 1965-66 in East Java,” Indonesia 116:49-85.
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Selya, Arielle, Rasmus Wissmann, Saul Shiffman, Siddharth Chandra, Mark Sembower, Jonah Joselow and Sooyong Kim. 2023. “Sales of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) and Cigarette Sales in the USA: A Trend Break Analysis,” Journal of Consumer Policy 46:79-93. Public impact: Altmetric.
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Winward, Mark and Siddharth Chandra. 2023. “Violence on the Margins: Local power, spillover effects, and patterns of violence in Gunung Kidul, 1965-66,” Indonesia, 116:11-30.
Chandra, Siddharth and Foster, Angela Williams. 2023. "The “Revolution of Rising Expectations,” Relative Deprivation, and the Urban Social Disorders of the 1960s: Evidence from State-Level Data," Social Science History, special virtual issue on "Race in the United States in Social Science History." Previously published as Chandra, Siddharth and Foster, Angela Williams. 2005. "The “Revolution of Rising Expectations,” Relative Deprivation, and the Urban Social Disorders of the 1960s: Evidence from State-Level Data​," Social Science History 29(2): 299-332.
Chandra, Siddharth and Madhur Chandra. 2022. "Deviation in the Age Structure of Mortality as an Indicator of COVID-19 Pandemic Severity,"
American Journal of Public Health, 112(1):165-168.
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Chandra, Siddharth and Julia Christensen. 2021. "Tracking Pandemic Severity Using Data on the Age-structure of Mortality: Lessons from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Michigan," American Journal of Public Health 111(S2):S149-S155.
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Chandra, Siddharth, Julia Christensen, Madhur Chandra and Nigel Paneth. 2021. "Pandemic Re-emergence and Four Waves of Excess Mortality Coinciding with the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Michigan: Insights for COVID-19," American Journal of Public Health 111(3):430-7. Public impact: Altmetric.
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Chandra, Siddharth, Julia Christensen and Shimon Likhtman. 2020. "Connectivity and Seasonality: the 1918 Influenza and COVID-19 Pandemics in Global Perspective," Journal of Global History 15(3):408-20.
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Chandra, Siddharth. 2019. "The Indonesian Killings of 1965-66: the Case of Central Java," Critical Asian Studies 51(3):307-330. View an infographic explaining this paper at the New Mandala website and a summary in Bahasa Indonesia on this Narasi TV video.
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Chandra, Siddharth. 2019. "Glimpses of Indonesia’s 1965 Massacre through the Lens of the Census: the Role of Trucks and Roads in ‘Crushing’ the Indonesian Communist Party in East Java," Indonesia 108:1-21. View an infographic explaining this paper at the New Mandala website and a summary in Bahasa Indonesia on this Narasi TV video.
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Benitez, Galia, Siddharth Chandra, Teniente Coronel Liz Wendy Cuadros Veloza and Intendente José Darío Díaz Cárdenas. 2019. "Following the Price: Identifying Cocaine Trafficking Networks in Colombia," Global Crime 20(2):90-114.
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Chandra, Siddharth and Julia Christensen. 2019. "RE: "Reassessing the Global Mortality Burden of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic,"" American Journal of Epidemiology 188(7):1404-1406.
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Chandra, Siddharth, Julia Christensen, Svenn-Erik Mamelund and Nigel Paneth. 2018. "Short-term Birth Sequelae of the 1918-20 Influenza Pandemic in the United States: State-Level Analysis," American Journal of Epidemiology 187(12):2585-95. Public impact: Altmetric.
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Chandra, Siddharth and Johnathan Joba. 2018. "The Importance of Economic Context in Interpreting Forensic Data on Drug Trafficking Networks," Forensic Science International 283:e18.
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Reyes, Olivia, Elizabeth Lee, Pratha Sah, Cecile Viboud, Siddharth Chandra and Shweta Bansal. 2018. "Spatio-temporal patterns and diffusion of the 1918 influenza pandemic in British India," American Journal of Epidemiology, 187(12):2550-60. Public impact: Altmetric.
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Dunbar, Michael, Saul Shiffman and Siddharth Chandra. 2018. "Exposure to Workplace Smoking Bans and Continuity of Daily Smoking Patterns on Workdays and Weekends," Addictive Behaviors 80:53-58.
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Chandra, Siddharth. 2017. "Glimpses of Indonesia’s 1965 Massacre through the Lens of the Census: Migration and Refuge in East Java," Indonesia, 104:27-39. Also published online as "Sekilas tentang Pembantaian Massal Indonesia Tahun 1965 lewat Kacamata Sensus: Migrasi dan Pengungsi di Jawa Timur," translated by Febriana Firdaus, May 30, 2018. View an infographic explaining this paper at the Inside Indonesia website (English) or the YPKP65 website (Bahasa Indonesia) and a summary in Bahasa Indonesia on this Narasi TV video.
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Chandra, Siddharth. 2017. "New Findings on the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66," Journal of Asian Studies 76(4):1056-86. View an infographic explaining this paper at the New Mandala website and a summary in Bahasa Indonesia on this Narasi TV video.
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Chandra, Siddharth and Julia Christensen. 2017. "Preparing for Pandemic Influenza: The Global 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Role of World Historical Information," Journal of World Historical Information 3-4(1).
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Chandra, Siddharth and Frederick T.L. Leong. 2017. "Diverse Perspectives are Welcome: Reply to Martin (2017)," American Psychologist 72(7):699-700.
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Chandra, Siddharth, Yan-liang Yu and Vinay Bihani. 2017. "How MDMA Flows Across the U.S.A.: Evidence from Price Data," Global Crime 18(2):122-39. Public impact: Altmetric.
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Chandra, Siddharth and Frederick T. L. Leong. 2016. "A Diversified Portfolio Model of Adaptability," American Psychologist 71(9):847-62.
Vyas, D, M Hollis, R Abraham, N Rustagi, S Chandra, A Malhotra, V Rajpurohit, H Purohit and R Pal. 2016. "Prehospital Care Training in a Rapidly Developing Economy: a Multi-institutional Study," Journal of Surgical Research 203(1): 22-27.
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Chandra, Siddharth and Yan-liang Yu. 2015. "Fertility Decline and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Taiwan," Biodemography and Social Biology 61(3):266-72.
Chandra, Siddharth and Madhur Chandra. 2015. "Do Consumers Substitute Opium for Hashish? An Economic Analysis of Simultaneous Cannabinoid and Opiate Consumption in a Legal Regime," Drug and Alcohol Dependence 156: 170-75.
Chandra, Siddharth and Yan-liang Yu. 2015. "The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Subsequent Birth Deficit in Japan," Demographic Research 33:313-326.
Chandra, Siddharth and Johnathan Joba. 2015. "Transnational Cocaine and Heroin Flow Networks in Western Europe: A Comparison," International Journal of Drug Policy 26(8):772-80.
Chandra, Siddharth and Nita Rudra. 2015. "Reassessing the Links between Regime Type and Economic Performance: Why Some Authoritarian Regimes Show Stable Growth and Others Do Not," British Journal of Political Science 45(2):253-85.
Leong, Frederick T.L., Madhur Chandra and Siddharth Chandra. 2015. "Applying the Portfolio Model of Adaptability: A Career Guide to Managing Academic Environments and Departmental Politics." In Dana S. Dunn, ed., Oxford Handbook of Psychology Education: Teaching, Pedagogy, and Professional Issues. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chandra, Siddharth and Eva Kassens-Noor. 2014. "The Evolution of Pandemic Influenza: Evidence from India, 1918-19," BMC Infectious Diseases 14:510. Public impact: Altmetric.
Chandra, Siddharth and Dilshani Sarathchandra. 2014: "The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 in Sri Lanka: its Demographic Cost, Timing, and Propagation," Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 8(3):267-73.
Chandra, Siddharth, Samuel Peters, and Nathaniel Zimmer. 2014. "How powdered cocaine flows across the USA: Evidence from open-source price data," Journal of Drug Issues 44(4):344-61.
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Chandra, Siddharth. 2013. "Deaths Associated with Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19, Japan," Emerging Infectious Diseases 19(4):616-622.
Chandra, Siddharth, Eva Kassens-Noor, Goran Kuljanin and Joshua Vertalka. 2013. "A geographic analysis of population density thresholds in the influenza pandemic of 1918-19," International Journal of Health Geographics 12:9. Public impact: Altmetric.
Chandra, Siddharth. 2013. "Mortality from the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 in Indonesia," Population Studies 67(2):85-93. Public impact: Altmetric.
Chandra, Siddharth and Matthew Barkell. 2012. "What the price data tell us about heroin flows across Europe," International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 37(1):1-13.
Chandra, Siddharth, Goran Kuljanin and Jennifer Wray. 2012. "Mortality From the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: The Case of India," Demography 49(3):857-865. Public impact: Altmetric.
Chandra, Siddharth, Deborah Scharf and Saul Shiffman. 2011. “Within-Day Temporal Patterns of Smoking, Withdrawal Symptoms, and Craving.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence 117(2):118-25.
Chandra, Siddharth, Joe Gitchell and Saul Shiffman. 2011. “Seasonality in Sales of Nicotine Replacement Therapies: Patterns and Implications for Tobacco Control,” Nicotine and Tobacco Research 13(5):395-8.