COSAS Associates

Associate members are typically scholars based at institutions other than the University of Chicago who reside in the Chicago area or are in Chicago frequently and can participate in COSAS activities. Nomination for associate membership must be made by a University of Chicago faculty member.

Associate Members, 2008-2009

  • Marshall Bouton
    President, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
  • Prakash Desai
    Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Diana Dimitrova
    Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
  • Jean Ellickson
    Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Western Illinois University
  • Joan Erdman
    Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences, Columbia College Chicago
  • Vijayarani J. Fedson
    Unaffiliated, University of Chicago Alumna
  • Madhuvanti Ghose
    Alsdorf Associate Curator of Indian and Islamic Art, Department of Asian & Ancient Art, The Art Institute of Chicago
  • David Gitomer
    Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University
  • Brian A. Hatcher
    McFee Professor of Religion and Chair, Department of Religion, Illinois Wesleyan University
  • Martha Kaplan
    Professor of Anthropology, Vassar College
  • Yarina Liston
    Professor, Department of Humanities and Philosophy, Oakton Community College
  • Rajit Mazumder
    Assistant Professor, Department of History, DePaul University
  • Kalyani Devaki Menon
    Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University
  • Sally Noble
    Executive Director, Chicago Programs, Associated Colleges of the Midwest
  • Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
    Professor, Religious Studies, Linguistics, Sanskrit & Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Tracy Pintchman
    Professor of Hindu Studies and World Religions, Department of Theology, Loyola University Chicago
  • Christopher Pinney
    Visiting Crowe Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
  • Michael Rabe
    Associate Professor, Department of Art History, St. Xavier University
  • Molly Daniels Ramanujan
  • Gayatri Reddy
    Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • George Rosen
    Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Nitasha Sharma
    Assistant Professor, African American Studies and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University
  • Sylvia J. Vatuk
    Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • James Wescoat
    Head, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ananda Wickremeratne
  • Arlene R.K. Zide
    (Ret.) Professor, Humanities Department and Women’s Studies, Harold Washington College