Southern Asia Faculty and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS)
COSAS members are University of Chicago faculty members engaged in significant research, publication and teaching related to the study of South and Southeast Asia. During 2007-08, the Committee had thirty-nine members, and twelve emeriti members, representing approximately sixteen degree-granting departments and programs across the university. This is one of the largest concentrations of faculty working on Southern Asia at any major research university. Members meet regularly to plan and implement programming and academic programs to enhance the study of Southern Asian at the University.
- Muzaffar Alam
George V. Brobinskoy Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - E. Annamalai
South Asian Languages and Civilizations (SALC) - Daniel A. Arnold
Professor, Philosophy of Religions, the Divinity School - Elena Bashir
Senior Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - Mandira Bhaduri
Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - Philip V. Bohlman
Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, Department of Music; and the College - Mark Bradley
History - Yigal Bronner
Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor, Department of History; Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Steven Collins
Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Wendy Doniger
Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor, History of Religions, the Divinity School; Committee on Social Thought; Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Thibaut d'Hubert
Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - Iza Hussin
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and the College - Sascha Ebeling
Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Gayathri Embuldeniya
Human Development - Philip Engblom
Senior Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - Leela Gandhi
Professor, Department of English - Jason Grunebaum
Senior Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - Matthew Kapstein
Numata Visiting Professor, Philosophy of Religions and History of Religions, The Divinity School - John D. Kelly
Professor, Department of Anthropology; and the College - Alan Kolata
Neukom Family Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Anthropology; and the College - Nisha Kommattam
Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - Spencer Leonard
Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences - Mark Lycett
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology; and the College
Director, Program on the Global Environment and Interim Director, CIS - Rochona Majumdar
Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Kaley Mason
Assistant Professor, Department of Music - William Mazzarella
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology; and the College - Kathleen D. Morrison
Professor, Department of Anthropology; and the College
- Constantine V. Nakassis
Assistant Professor of Anthropology; and the College - Karma Ngodup
Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law & Ethics, the Law School; Department of Philosophy, the Divinity School; and the College - James H. Nye
Bibliographer for Southern Asia
Director, South Asia Language and Area Center - Emilly Oster
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics; and the College - Poornima Paidipaty
Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences - Vasudha Paramasivan
Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - C. Ryan Perkins
Mellon Postdoctoral, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - Tahera Qutbuddin
Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Ring, Laura
SA Assistant Bibliographer; Regenstein - Jaishankar Raman
Professor, Department of Surgery and Director, Research & Adult Cardiac Surgery - John Schneider
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Department of Health Studies - Richard A. Shweder
William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development / Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Prof. - Dan Slater
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; and the College - Paul Staniland
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science - Ulrike Stark
Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Associate Professor of Anthropology; and the College - Richard P. Taub
Paul Klapper Professor of Social Science, Department of Comparative Human Development; Department of Sociology; and the College - Gary Tubb
Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Rajagopal Vakulabharanam
Lecturer in Telugu - Christian K. Wedemeyer
Professor, History of Religions, the Divinity School
COSAS Faculty Members Emeriti
- Kali Charan Bahl
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; Department of Linguistics - Ronald B. Inden
Professor Emeritus, Department of History; Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - McKim Marriott
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology; and the College - Colin P. Masica
Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - C. M. Naim
Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations - Ralph W. Nicholas
William Rainey Harper Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology; and the College
President, American Institute of Indian Studies - Frank E. Reynolds
Professor Emeritus, the Divinity School; Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Lloyd I. Rudolph
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science; and the College - Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science; and the College - Clinton B. Seely
Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; and the College - Norman H. Zide
Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; Department of Linguistics