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