Get to Know Our South Asia Studies Faculty and Scholars
As a way to introduce you to our South Asia Studies faculty and scholars, we have asked them to share one article they feel represents their work well. Below you will find links to the articles faculty shared with us. For a full list of faculty, see https://jsis.washington.edu/southasia/people/faculty/.
Enjoy exploring the diverse scholarly world of South Asia Studies at UW!
Jordanna Bailkin, History
The Boot and the Spleen: When Was Murder Possible in British India?
P.V. (Sundar) Balakrishnan, UW Bothell School of Business
Tough Policy Didn’t Save Nepal’s Throne
Manish Chalana, Urban Design and Planning
Whither the “Hindoo Invasion”? South Asians in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, 1907–1930
David Citrin, Global Health and Anthropology
The Anatomy of Ephemeral Health Care: “Health Camps” and Short-Term Medical Voluntourism in Remote Nepal
Frank Conlon, History (Emeritus)
Dining Out in Bombay
Jennifer Dubrow, Asian Languages and Literature
The aesthetics of the fragment: Progressivism and literary modernism in the work of the All-India Progressive Writers’ Association
David Fowler, Comparative Religion
Introduction: Orienting a Logic for Comparison
Radhika Govindrajan, Anthropology and JSIS
“The goat that died for family”: Animal sacrifice and interspecies kinship in India’s Central Himalayas
Sunila Kale, JSIS
From company town to company village: CSR and the management of rural aspirations in eastern India’s extractive economies
Cricket Keating, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Framing the Postcolonial Social Contract
Alka Kurian, UW Bothell School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Decolonizing the Body: Theoretical Imaginings on the Fourth Wave Feminism in India
Sudhir Mahadevan, Cinema and Media Studies
Traveling Showmen, Makeshift Cinemas: The Bioscopewallah and Early Cinema History in India
Joe Marino, Asian Languages and Literature
From the Blacksmith’s Forge to the Fires of Hell: Eating the Red-Hot Iron Ball in Early Buddhist Literature
Matthew Mosca, JSIS and History
Indian Mendicants in Ming and Qing China: A Preliminary Study
Christian Lee Novetzke, JSIS and CHID
The Brahmin double: the Brahminical construction of anti-Brahminism and anti-caste sentiment in the religious cultures of precolonial Maharashtra
Heidi Pauwels, Asian Languages and Literature
Reviewing the Idea of Debate within the Intellectual History of South Asia: Early Modern Vernacular Inter- and Intra-Religious Dialogues
Aseem Prakash, Political Science
Selectively Assertive: Interventions of India’s Supreme Court to Enforce Environmental Laws
Vikramaditya Prakash, Architecture
Dhāranā: The Agency of Architecture in Decolonization
Anis Rahman, Communication
The politico-commercial nexus and its implications for television industries in Bangladesh and South Asia
Deepa Rao, Global Health
Gender inequality and structural violence among depressed women in South India
Anu Taranath, English and Comparative History of Ideas
Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World
Virginia Van Dyke, JSIS
Ideological and caste-based challenges to Sikh political and religious institutions: The Shiromani Akali Dal and SGPC’s strategies of co-option and ‘management’ in a fragmented polity
Nathalie Williams, JSIS
When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal
Anand Yang, JSIS and History
Exile in Colonial Asia