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https://dornsife.usc.edu/poir/wp-content/uploads/sites/65/2025/08/photo_1144513-768x1024.jpg600800Shenali Pilapitiya She / Her / Hers Ph.D. Student pilapiti@usc.edu Biography Shenali Pilapitiya is a PhD student in Political Science specializing in Comparative Politics and Methods. Her work focuses on contentious politics, social movements, political culture, and political theory. She is currently working on the relationship between social movements and party realignment in South Asia. […]