Southern Asia Students

Alvarez, Anthony
Anthropology
Phillipines; archaeology
Asif, Bushra
Political Science
Impact of regime type on women's rights in the context of South Asia; Pakistan
Bauer, Andrew
Anthropology
Political ecology; landscapes; nature-culture; human-environment interaction; land use; political economy
Cassaniti, Julia
Human Development
Cognitive and cultural psychology; Buddhism and conceptions of Self; Thailand
Chakravarti, Ananya
History
Jesuit-native interaction in the early Portuguese empire in India and Brazil
Chatterjee, Rumya P.
Music
Regionalism; cultural identity; classicism; Indian dance
Chladek, Michael
Human Develpment
Gender and Buddhism in Thailand
Chowdhury, Nusrat
Anthropology
Political ethnography; local politics and democracy; Bangladesh
Collins, Brian
Divinity
The mythology of Parashurama
Das, Deepa (Nitya)
Anthropology
South Asian religious identity; South Asian diaspora; public culture
Datoo, Sabrina
History
Late colonial medical texts; Indo-Persian and Urdu texts; constitution of Muslim subjecthood in late colonial India; India
Delacy, Richard 
SALC
The Hindi Sahitya Sammelan; language practice and politics in colonial India
Devassy, Jeevan
History
Kerala in the British period
Dey, Arnab
SALC
Late 19th century and early 20th century cultural history; vernacular texts; India
Di Giovine, Michael
Anthropology
Tourism and heritage; Cambodia and Vietnam
Dowdy, Sean
Anthropology
Northern India; moral economy; epistemology of finance; the Indian "moneylender"; caste; time; semiotics of money; exchange theory; affect theory; Marxist critical theory
Dubrow, Jennifer
SALC
Print and the novel in late 19th century Lucknow
Elangovan, Arvind
History
Indian constitutional history, 1935-1950
Epperson, Erin
Divinity
Figueroa-Castro, Oscar
Anthropology
Hermaneutics; apophatic discourse; Tantric theology
Fischel, Roy
SALC
Early modern South Asia; the Deccan Sultanates
Friedrich, Philip
Divinity
Sri Lanka; Theravada Buddhism; Kandyan kingdom polity; anthropology of religion; Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism and religious culture
Gandotra, Smita
SALC
North Indian literature, 1850-1930
Ghazal, Royal
Anthropology
Archaeology; craft production and maritime trade in the Arabian Sea during the late Bronze Age; India
Ghose, Rajarshi
SALC
Modern South Asia; history of Islam; intellectual history; India
Ghosh, Abhishek
SALC
Gooptu, Sharmistha
History
Regional cinema; visual culture; nationalism; India
Graif, Peter
Anthropology
Disability; linguistics; deaf studies; Nepal
Gundlupet, Vaidyanatha
Political Science
South Asian security; South Asian politics; international relations theory; international security; international institutions
Hamilton, Amanda
SALC
Hanlon, Julie
Anthropology
South India; underwater and economic archaeology; state formation; maritime trade routes; Tamil Sangam era
Harter, Pierre-Julien
Divinity: Philosophy of Religion
Indian and Tibetan Buddhist thought from a philosophical perspective; Indian philosophy
He, Xi
SALC
Hickman, Jacob
Human Development
Processes of migration, urbanization, and globalization among the Hmong diaspora; Thailand; United States
Hopkins, Samuel
Divinity: History of Religions
Tantric ritual; Sanskrit literary and aesthetic theory
Hota, Pinky
Human Development
Hindu nationalism; tribal politics and development discourse; India
Huffer, Amanda
Divinity: History of Religions
Hindu devotional communities in the diaspora; India; United States
Huntington, Eric
SALC
Jauregui, Beatrice 
Anthropology
Indian police service and legal systems; politicized bureaucracies; state-civil society discourses
Jha, Shefali
Anthropology
Kachru, Sonam
Divinity: Philosophy of Religion
Philosophical thought in Buddhism; intellectual profile of early Buddhism
Khan, Atiya
History
Pakistan
Kim, Diana
Political Science
Political economy of development; politics of epidemics; human rights; social theory; Southeast Asian history
Kim, Yongjin
Anthropology
Ethnicity, nationalism, and the modern nation-state; museums and tourism; cultural policy; Southeast Asia (Indonesia / Malaysia)
Kovacs, Hajnalka
SALC
Kowalski, Julia
Human Development
Leonard, Spencer
SALC
Nationalism; economic, political, and institutional history of the East India Company in the eighteenth century
Mata, Kareem
Anthropology
Nepal; archaeology
McGuire, Meredith
Anthropology
McNamara, Daniel
Divinity
Tibetan; Sanskrit; Nepal; China; Buddhism
Mehta, Mona
Political Science
Democracy and violence; civil society; India
Meyers, Karin
Divinity: Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy and Buddhist studies; India
Mocko, Anne
Divinity: History of Religions
Monarchy of Nepal
Momin, Wafi
SALC
Ismaili tradition in South Asia; Islam in South Asia; medeival and early modern Indian history
Moore, Randall
Divinity
Jainism; Tantra
Morse, Jeremy
Divinity
Mull, Allison
Divinity: History of Religions
Indo-Tibetan Buddhism; gender and religious practice
Nair, Urmila
Anthropology 
Tibetan Buddhism; ritual and performance; India; Tibet
Nauright, Jessica
SALC
Pazucha, Katarzyna
SALC
Persico, Claudia
Divinity: Philosophy of Religion
Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Peters, Craig
Divinity
Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Preston, Charles
Divinity: History of Religions
Ramaswami, Shankar 
Anthropology
Reddy, Malavika
Political Science
The Thai-Burma border; legal practice; legality; processes of normalization
Rich, Matt
Anthropology
Bangladesh
Rohatgi, Rashi
Divinity
Hinduism in ancient India
Roychoudhuri, Ranu
SALC
Sargent, Adam
Anthropology
Satpathy, Siddharth
SALC
Modern missionary movement; history of colonial public life; Victorian literary culture
Schonthal, Ben
Divinity
State regulation of religion; Sri Lanka
Shacham, Ilanit
SALC
Sen, Dwaipayan
History
Modern and early modern South Asian history; social, cultural and political history of Bengal; British imperial history; postcolonial and social theory; historiography; scheduled caste politics; partition history
Sousa, Amy
Anthropology
Agricultural development; regional consumption & subsistence patterns; rise of vegetarianism; ecological, political & social landscapes
Sykes, Jim
Music
Drumming; Sinhala and Tamil musics; cultural politics; migration and displacement; cultural history; historiography of Sri Lanka; ritual; Buddhism 
Thomas, Asha
School of Social Service Administration
Social movements and the Narmada dam
Trivedi, Mudit
Anthropology
Archaeology; ancient North India
Turner, Alicia
Divinity: History of Religions
Burma
Tusinski, Gabriel 
Anthropology
East Timor; vernacular architecture; nationalism; semiotics; multilingualism
Weiner, Talia
Human Development
Clinical ethnography; psychological anthropology; Indonesia
Weinstein, Liza
Sociology
Wilson, Brian
Anthropology
British and Portuguese colonialism; colonial archaeology; human-environment interaction; identity; economics; India
Zakin, Susan
Divinity
Indo-Tibetan Buddhism


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