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
Vasugi Kailasam Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture
Abhishek Kaicker Dept of History South Asia, Mughal, early modern, cities, history, Persian, India, politics, Asia
Alexander von Rospatt Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Buddhist traditions of South Asia, ritual studies, Nepalese studies, doctrinal history, Newar Buddhism, art
Janaki Bakhle Dept of History intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India, South Asia
Lisandro Claudio Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Philippines, theories of liberalism, history and culture of Southeast Asia, austerity in the global south
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
Pradeep Chhibber Dept of Political Science political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India
Xin Liu Dept of Anthropology history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia
Aarti Sethi Dept of Anthropology agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography
Matthew Shutzer Dept of History environmental history, modern South Asia, energy history, Science and Technology studies, histories of development and decolonization, empire, political economy, social theory
Munis D. Faruqui Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Mughal India, Delhi Sultanate, Islam in South Asia/India, Urdu
Elora Shehabuddin Dept of Gender and Women's Studies transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, left-wing politics in the Global South, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States
Sylvia Tiwon Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Indonesia, South and Southeast Asian studies, literature and gender, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, orality and literacy
Junko Habu Dept of Anthropology Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers
Christine Hastorf Dept of Anthropology anthropology, archaeology, paleoethnobotany/archaeobotany, ancient plant use, foodways, Andean South America, indigenous ontologies, agriculture
Wen-hsin Yeh Dept of History history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies
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
Atreyee Gupta Dept of History of Art Twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and architecture, global modernism, globalization, postwar art history, global art history, third world art, Global South, art and decolonization, Bandung, non-aligned movement, Cold War, atomic, modern and contemporary South and Southeast Asian art
Charles L Briggs Dept of Anthropology social cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, folklore and performance, racialization, linguistic anthropology
Daena Funahashi Dept of Anthropology Political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia
Lawrence Cohen Dept of Anthropology Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies social and cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, critical gerontology, feminist and queer theory, Science and Technology studies
Laurie Wilkie Dept of Anthropology anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean, Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community
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