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Mona Bhan

Mona Bhan

Professor, Anthropology Department

Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies

Director, Extraction, Environment and Citizenship Working Group

Director, Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2006

Areas of Expertise

Border wars and counterinsurgency; militarism and humanitarianism; race, gender, and religion; environmentalism and climate change; occupation and human rights; space and place; water and infrastructure

Arun Brahmbhatt

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Assistant Professor, Religion, College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Hinduism & South Asian Religions
Lawrence Chua

Lawrence Chua

Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, School of Architecture

Ph.D., Cornell University

Areas of Expertise

Global modern built environment with an emphasis on the trans-regional histories of Asian architecture and urban cultures
Tula Goenka

Tula Goenka

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Professor, Television, Radio and Film, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Nausheen Husain

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Assistant Professor, Magazine, News and Digital Journalism, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

M.J., University of California, Berkeley, 2014

Areas of Expertise

Civil liberties issues, Muslim communities, incarceration and marginalized populations, Islamophobia, the ongoing ‘War on Terror’ and its civil liberties aftermath
Radha Kumar

Radha Kumar

Associate Professor, History Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2014

Areas of Expertise

Modern South Asia: policing and sovereignty, legal history, colonial and post-colonial politics
Prema Kurien

Prema Kurien

Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Ph.D., Brown University, 1993

Areas of Expertise

International migration, Immigrant politics, Sociology of Religion, Race and Ethnicity-- US and Global, Religion and Society in India, Qualitative Methods
Dan Nelson

Dan Nelson

Director, Accelerated Learning and Global Engagement, Executive Education Department

Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

M.P.A., Syracuse University, 2004
Shannon Novak

Shannon A. Novak

Professor, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Ph.D., University of Utah, 1999

Areas of Expertise

Body and society, new materialism, anthropology of knowledge, historical bioarchaeology, gender, ritual, necropolitics, North America, Indo-Caribbean diaspora
S.P. Raj

S.P. Raj

Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Chair and Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Whitman School of Management

Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University

Areas of Expertise

Marketing strategy, innovation management and new product development, advertising, empirical research
Kamala Ramadoss

Kamala Ramadoss

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science, Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics

Ph.D., Purdue University

Areas of Expertise

Work-family interface, acculturation, social support and health among immigrants and refugees; women’s labor force participation in India; healing meditation; workplace cultural integration
Srividya Ramasubramanian

Srividya Ramasubramanian

Faculty Affiliate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Research Affiliate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Newhouse Professor and Endowed Chair, Communications, Newhouse School of Public Communications

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Areas of Expertise

Race, gender, nation, immigrants, youth, media literacy, communication, media studies, dialogues, community-engaged research, mixed methods, data justice
Romita Ray

Romita Ray

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, Art and Music Histories, College of Arts and Sciences

Susan Thomas

Susan Thomas

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, Cultural Foundations of Education, School of Education

Joanne Punzo Waghorne

Joanne Punzo Waghorne

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Professor, Religion, College of Arts & Sciences

M.A./Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1976

Areas of Expertise

Contemporary theoretical directions in the study of religion, new religious movements, globalization and transnational migration; urban India, Singapore and the Hindu diaspora
Melissa Yuen

Melissa A. Yuen

Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Interim Chief Curator, Syracuse University Art Museum

Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
South Asia Center
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