South Asian Studies Faculty

Full Members

SAREETA AMRUTE, PhD, University of Chicago (2007), Assistant Professor, Anthropology;  Diasporas; social networks; international professional migration

JAMEEL AHMAD, MA Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (1996), PhD Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (in progress); Lecturer, Asian Languages and Literatures; Urdu Language and Literature.

JORDANNA BAILKIN, PhD Stanford University (1998); Associate Professor, History; Colonial History.

MANISH CHALANA, PhD Colorado (2005); Assistant Professor, Urban Design and Planning; International Planning and Devlopment, Historic Preservation Planning, India.

COLLETT COX, PhD Columbia (1983); Professor, Asian Languages and Literature; comparative religion, Indian and Chinese Buddhism

PURNIMA DHAVAN, PhD University of Virginia (2003); Assistant Professor, History, early modern India, Sikhism, religion, ritual, social history, and identity formation in seventeenth and eighteenth century Panjab (India and Pakistan)

TER ELLINGSON, PhD Wisconsin-Madison (1979); Professor, Ethnomusicology and Anthropology; comparative religions and South Asian ritual, Buddhism, Shamanism, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka

DARRYL HOLMAN, PhD Penn State University (1996); Associate Professor, Anthropology; paleo-demography, human reproductive ecology, anthropological demography, Bangladesh

SUNILA KALE, PhD University of Texas (2007), Assistant Professor, International Studies; economic development in India, globalization, liberalization

SANJEEV KHAGRAM, PhD Stanford University (1999); Associate Professor, Public Affairs and International Studies, international development, global governance, environment, India

DONNA LEONETTI, PhD Washington (1976) Associate Professor; Anthropology; bio-cultural anthropology, household ecology and intergenerational effects on fertility, child survival and health in NE India

CLARK LOMBARDI, PhD Columbia (2001), JD Columbia (1998); Assistant Professor, Law; Islamic law, constitutional law, comparative legal institutions, development law, as well as law and religion, Afghanistan

SUDHIR MAHADEVAN, PhD New York University (2008); Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature; Indian cinema, world cinemas, media history and theory, film theory and history

BIREN (RATNESH) NAGDA, PhD University of Michigan (1996); Associate Professor, School of Social Work; education and intergroup dialogue.

CHRISTIAN NOVETZKE, PhD Columbia University (2002); Assistant Professor, International Studies and Comparative Religion; South Asian religious practice and literature; Hinduism

ARZOO OSANLOO, PhD Stanford (2002); Assistant Professor, Law, Justice & Society Program and Anthropology; gender and Islam, human rights and the Islamic state, Pakistan

FIROOZEH PAPAN-MATIN, PhD UCLA (2003); Persian language and literature; Iranian culture and Islamic texts; Indo-Persian texts

SAMUEL PARKER, PhD Chicago (1989); Associate Professor, Liberal Studies, UW-Tacoma; aesthetic anthropology, India

HEIDI PAUWELS, PhD Washington (1994);, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature; Hindi literature, Hinduism

ASEEM PRAKASH, PhD Indiana (1997); Associate Professor, Political Science; environmental policy, management, globalization, international political economy, India

VIKRAM PRAKASH, PhD Cornell (1994); Chair and Associate Professor, Architecture; history of architecture, urban design, women and development, India

PRITI RAMAMURTHY, PhD Syracuse (1995), Associate Professor, Women Studies; gender in South Asia, women in development, India

CABEIRI DeBERGH ROBINSON, PhD Cornell (2004); Assistant Professor, International Studies, adjunct, Anthropology; political violence, socio-cultural anthropology, historical anthropology, refugees, human rights, political Islam, Pakistan, India, Kashmir

RICHARD G. SALOMON, PhD Pennsylvania (1975); Professor, Asian Languages and Literature; Sanskrit language and literature, history of early India

MICHAEL C. SHAPIRO, PhD Chicago (1973); Professor, Asian Languages and Literature, adjunct, Linguistics; Hindi, Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics

ANJANA SUSARLA, PhD University of Texas – Austin (2003); Assistant Professor, Business; Data communications and networking, systems analysis and design, database management, electronic commerce, business process outsourcing to India.

ANAND A. YANG, PhD Virginia (1976); Director, JSIS; Stanley D. Golub Professor of International Studies; popular culture in colonial India, colonial systems of discipline and punishment, South Asian diasporas and migrations, India 

Associate Members

C. LEIGH ANDERSON, PhD Washington (1989); Associate Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs; trade and environmental policy, development, regulatory policy, Pakistan

MARY CALLAHAN, PhD Cornell (1996); Associate Professor, Political Science, International Studies; comparative politics, modern Southeast Asian politics, politics and military rule in Burma, , Indonesia, Pakistan

GREGORY HICKS, JD University of Texas – Austin (1978); Professor, Law; property, water law, and public land and natural resources law, India

CHARLES F. KEYES, PhD Cornell (1965); Professor, Anthropology; religion and politico-economic change in Buddhist societies of mainland southeast Asia and south Asia

SANDEEP KRISHNAMURTHY, PhD (1996); Associate Professor, Business UW-Bothell; Marketing and E-commerce, India

DIVYA McMILLIN, PhD Indiana (1998); Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Tacoma; communications, media, society, politics, India

MATTISON MINES, PhD Cornell University (1969); Affiliate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; social structure; social history of individuality in South India

CHANDAN REDDY, PhD Columbia (2001); Assistant Professor, English; multi-ethnic literature, 20th-century American literature, American studies, cross-cultural queer studies, critical race theory, globalization, queer theory, feminism, transnational cultural studies, India

ELAINA ROSE, PhD Pennsylvania (1993); Associate Professor, Economics; development, labor, women, applied micro-economics, India

NIKHIL PAL SINGH, PhD Yale (1995); Associate Professor of History; US Intellectual, African American, Ethnicity and Nationalism, empire history, British imperialism, India

KEITH SNODGRASS, MA Washington (1993); Associate Director and Outreach Coordinator, South Asia Center; K-12 curriculum development for international and South Asian studies, modern South Asian history and politics, Pakistan

ANUPAMA TARUNATH, PhD UC San Diego (2000); Lecturer, English; colonial and postcolonial literatures and theory, contemporary world and multi-ethnic literatures, transnational feminist and cultural studies, India

Emeritus

DAURIL ALDEN, PhD California-Berkeley (1959); Professor, History; Portuguese Colonial empire, India

PAUL R. BRASS, PhD Chicago (1964); Professor Emeritus, Political Science and International Studies; politics, international relations, nationalities, ethnicity

FRANK F. CONLON, PhD Minnesota (1969); Professor Emeritus, History; modern, pre-modern social and cultural history, religion

RAMESH GANGOLLI, PhD MIT (1961); Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, adjunct, Music; mathematics, Indian vocal music

JAMES W. GREEN, PhD Washington (1972); Senior Lecturer, Anthropology; Pakistan society and culture

KARL H. POTTER, PhD Harvard (1955); Professor Emeritus, Philosophy and International Studies; Indian philosophy, epistemology