Paola Bacchetta Dept of Gender and Women's Studies gender and sexuality, global racialities, social theory, postcolonial and decolonial theory, alliances, right-wing movements; geographic specializations outside the U.S.:France, India
Janaki Bakhle Dept of History intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India, South Asia
Sukanya Banerjee Dept of English 19th-century British, South Asian, critical theory, cultural studies, narrative and the novel
Jennifer Bussell Dept of Political Science Goldman School of Public Policy democratic politics in economically developing states
Sharad Chari Dept of Geography geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Pheng Cheah Dept of Rhetoric world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought
Pradeep Chhibber Dept of Political Science political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India
Al-An deSouza Dept of Art Practice photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, and trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms
Nicholas Dirks Dept of Anthropology Dept of History History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization
Munis D. Faruqui Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Mughal India, Delhi Sultanate, Islam in South Asia/India, Urdu
Atreyee Gupta Dept of History of Art global modern art, modern and contemporary South and Southeast Asian art
Vasugi Kailasam Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Tamil studies, literature, film and digital culture
Minoo Moallem Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, and Iranian Studies
Aihwa Ong Dept of Anthropology Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies anthropology, transnationalism, governance, citizenship, global cities, migration, Asian biomedical science, Southeast Asia, South Asian Art
Alison Post Dept of Political Science regulation, infrastructure, water and sanitation, urban politics, urban politics and policy, comparative political economy
Sugata Ray Dept of History of Art Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history
Poulomi Saha Dept of English postcolonial studies, Asian American, South Asian, critical theory, gender and sexuality, cultural studies
Aarti Sethi Dept of Anthropology agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, cinema and media culture, ercstatic experience, embodiment and aestetics, theory of mind, theory of subjectivity, caste, socio-economic inequality
Elora Shehabuddin Dept of Gender and Women's Studies transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States
Alexander von Rospatt Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies ritual studies, Nepalese studies, Buddhist traditions of South Asia, doctrinal history, Newar Buddhism