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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
Shobha Bhatia

Shobha Bhatia

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science

Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1980

Areas of Expertise

Use of synthetics and natural products in mitigating soil erosion and soil, dewatering and containment of dredged sediments and waste, use of recycle materials in civil infrastructures, women in science and engineering
Tej Bhatia

Tej Bhatia

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Professor, Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences

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Himika Bhattacharya

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Associate Professor and Department Chair, Women's and Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

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
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Richard L. Breyer

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

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

Tom Brutsaert

Tom D. Brutsaert

Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Professor, Exercise Science, Falk College

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1997

Areas of Expertise

Human biology, high-altitude adaptation, physical activity, growth and development
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
Ravi Dharwadkar

Ravi Dharwadkar

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Whitman Advisory Council Professor of Management, Martin J. Whitman School of Management

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence

Areas of Expertise

 Corporate governance, corporate strategy, international business, organization theory

Ingrid Erickson

Ingrid Erickson

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Assistant Professor, iSchool

Ph.D., Center for Work, Technology, and Organization in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, 2009

Areas of Expertise

Organizational studies, information science and human-centered computing, science and technology studies, future of work/work in the age of intelligent machines
Gareth Fisher

Gareth Fisher

Associate Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Anthropology Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, East Asia Program

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, Religion, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2006

Areas of Expertise

Buddhism, religion in contemporary China, religion and cultural change, globalization, post-socialism
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

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Roger Hallas

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences

Timur Hammond

Timur Hammond

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Research Affiliate, Center for European Studies

Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016

Areas of Expertise

Cultural geography, urban geography, geographies of memory, Turkey, Middle East
Margaret Hermann

Margaret Hermann

Professor Emerita, Political Science Department

Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs

Senior Research Associate, Mapping Global Insecurity

Senior Research Associate, Sovereignty, Order and Conflict Working Group

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

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1965

Areas of Expertise

Political leadership, foreign policy decision making, crisis management, influence of non-state actors on foreign policy, comparative foreign policy

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
Jeanette S. Jouili

Jeanette S. Jouili

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, Religion, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., EHESS, Paris and Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
Tazim Kassam

Tazim R. Kassam

Senior Research Associate, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, Religion, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., McGill University, 1993

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
Devashish Mitra

Devashish Mitra

Professor and Chair, Economics Department

Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs

Senior Research Associate, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1996

Areas of Expertise

International trade, political economy, development economics, Indian economy
Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Distinguished Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, College of Arts & Sciences

Dean’s Professor of the Humanities

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987

Areas of Expertise

Transnational feminist theory, postcolonial feminism, globalization and anti-capitalist praxis, anti-racist education
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
Sudha Raj

Sudha Raj

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Teaching Professor, Nutrition and Food Studies, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics

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

Jaipaul Lalla Roopnarine

Jaipaul L. Roopnarine

Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Professor, Human Development and Family Science, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics

Larry D. Schroeder

Larry D. Schroeder

Professor Emeritus, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971

Areas of Expertise

State and local public finance, financial management
Yüksel Sezgin

Yüksel Sezgin

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Director, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Legal pluralism; informal justice systems; comparative religious law (Islamic, Jewish and Hindu); human and women’s rights in the context of the Middle East, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Bhanushri Sisodia

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Instructor, Hindi-Urdu (Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics), College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Hindi
Stephan-Stohler

Stephan Stohler

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2014
Farhana Sultana

Farhana Sultana

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Research Co-Director, Environmental Conflict and Collaboration

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

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Political ecology, international development, water governance, climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, citizenship, human rights, decolonizing, transnational feminisms, South Asia
Susan Thomas

Susan Thomas

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Committee Member, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, Cultural Foundations of Education, School of Education

Susan Snow Wadley

Susan Snow Wadley

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department

Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies

Senior Research Associate, South Asia Center

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1973

Areas of Expertise

Social change, religion, folklore, gender issues, folk art traditions, India, Upstate New York
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
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