Faculty:
Aftab Ahmad (Ph.D., Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, 2000) Lecturer, Urdu, Department
of South and Southeast Asia Studies.
Interests: Humor and Satire in Urdu literature and
translation.
Paola
Bacchetta (Ph.D., The Sorbonne, Paris, France, 1995) Associate
Professor, Women's Studies
Interests: Transnational feminist theory, gender and
sexuality, religious nationalism, social movements.
Ashok
Deo Bardhan (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) Senior Research Associate, Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics
Interests: offshoring in R&D and the changing role of clusters and agglomerations in innovation economies, reforms in transitioning and developing economies.
Pranab
K. Bardhan (Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1966) Professor, Economics
Interests: international economics, agricultural economics
and the Indian economy.
Gerald
Berreman (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1959) Professor Emeritus,
Anthropology
Interests: Himalayan Anthropology; South Asian Society
and culture, cultural anthropology, theory, methods, and social inequality.
Sudipto
Chatterjee (Ph.D., New York University, 1998) Assistant Professor,
Theater, Dance &
Performance Studies
Interests: Asian theater and performance
studies, theater history, Bengali theater.
Vikram Chandra (M.F.A.,
University of Houston, Texas) Creative Writing Lecturer, English
Pradeep
Chhibber (Ph.D., UCLA, 1991) Professor, Political
Science; Indo-American Community Chair in Indian Studies; Chair,
Department of Political Science
Interests: Political parties and social cleavages, the
politics of economic reform, and the extent to which gender based inequalities
influence participation by women in electoral politics in India.
Lawrence
Cohen (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992; M.D., Harvard Medical
School, 1992) Associate Professor, Anthropology
and Department of South and
Southeast Asia Studies.
Interests: gerontology, sexuality, medicine, aging in
India.
Vasudha
Dalmia (Ph. D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1984) Professor,
Hindi/Urdu; Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South and Southeast
Asian Studies; Chair, Department
of South and Southeast Asia Studies.
Interests: Hinduism, colonial and post-colonial Hindi
literature, medieval Indian religiosity and modern Indian theatre.
Jyotirindra
Das Gupta
(Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley, 1965) Professor Emeritus,
Political Science
Interests: comparative political development, politics
of economic development and socio-linguistics.
Prachi Deshpande (Ph.D., Tufts University,
2002) Assistant Professor, History.
Interests: Historiography, nationalism, regional identities,
and Marathi literature and culture.
Jay
M. Enoch
(Ph.D., Ohio State, 1956) Professor of the Graduate School and Dean
Emeritus, Optometry
Munis
D. Faruqui (Ph.D., Duke University, 2002) Assistant Professor,
South and Southeast Asia
Studies.
Interests: Moghul history.
Robert
P. Goldman (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1971) Professor,
Sanskrit; General Editor, Ramayana translation project, Department
of South and Southeast Asia Studies.
Interests: Sanskrit literature; Indian epic studies;
Ramayana; psychoanalytically-oriented investigations of traditional
Indian culture.
George
L. Hart, III (Ph.D., Harvard, 1970) Professor, Tamil; Holder
of Chair in Tamil Studies, Department
of South and Southeast Asia Studies.
Interests: Tamil language and literature; ancient Tamil
poetry; premodern Indian literature.
Kausalya
Hart (M.A., Annamalai University, 1962) Lecturer, Tamil, Department
of South and Southeast Asia Studies.
Interests: Tamil literature, grammar, inscriptions.
Gary
Holland, Associate Professor, Linguistics.
Interests: Indo-European and historical linguistics.
Eugene
Irschick
(Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1964) Professor, History.
Interests: Social construction of South India, politics
and social conflict in South India, Tamil revivalism in the 1930's.
Usha
Jain, (M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1964) Senior
Lecturer, Hindi - Distinguished Teaching Award, 2002, Department
of South and Southeast Asia Studies.
Interests: Hindi language and literature; Gujaratis
in the San Francisco Bay area.
Padmanabh
S. Jaini, Department
of South and Southeast Asia Studies.
Neil
Joeck (Ph.D., UCLA, 1986) Adjunct Professor, Political
Science.
Claire
Kramsch, Professor, German.
Interests: Language pedagogy.
Lewis
Lancaster(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968) Professor, East
Asian Languages and Cultures; Buddhist Studies.
Interests: Buddhism in China, India, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan,
and Tibet; also culture and literature in these countries.
Jitendra Malik (Ph.D., Stanford
University,1985) Arthur J. Chick Professor, Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science
Interests: Computer graphics & vision, computational
modeling of human vision, analysis of biological images
Saba
Mahmood (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998); Assistant Professor,
Anthropology.
Interests: Anthropology of subject formation, liberalism,
and secular modernity; feminist and poststructuralist theory; religion
and politics; Islam, the Middle East, and South Asia.
Thomas
Metcalf (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1962); Professor Emeritus,
History.
Interests: modern Indian history, and the British
colonial period, particularly in South Asia, and architecture during
the British Raj.
Bharati Mukherjee (Ph.D.,
University of Iowa, 1969) Professor, English
Interests: Creative writing - phenomenon of migration, status
of new immigrants, expatriates' feeling of alienation, struggles of
Indian women
Michael Nagler, Professor
Emeritus, Peace and Conflict Studies and Classics.
Interests: Gandhian thought and practice.
Gautam
Premnath, (Ph.D., Brown University, 2003) Assistant Professor,
English
Interests: Poscolonial studies; nationalism and transnationalism;
Indian writing in English; histories and cultures of South Asian diaspora
communities; twentieth-century British literature.
Harsha
Ram, (Ph.D., Yale University) Associate Professor,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Interests: Russian and European lyric poetry and poetics. Derzhavin, Pushkin, Lermontov, Khlebnikov, Mandel'shtam. Poetics and politics of the eighteenth century and the Russian Golden Age. The Russian and European avant-garde. The Caucasus. Georgian romantic and modernist poetry. History of Russian nationalism and imperialism. Russian and European orientalist discourse. Intellectual history of Russian Eurasianism.
Isha
Ray, (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997) Assistant Professor,
Energy & Resources Group
Interests: Water and development; common property resource
management; transnational river conflicts; resource access of the poor;
social science research methods.
Raka Ray
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1993) Chair, Center
for South Asia Studies; Sarah Kailath Chair of India
Studies; Associate Professor, Sociology
and Department of South and
Southeast Asia Studies.
Interests: Gender and Politics in India.
Jeff
Romm
(Ph.D., Cornell University, 1970) Professor, Forestry
and Resource Management
Interests: resource policy and rural development,
inter-governmental relations and resource use, water management, agro-forestry,
and social forestry.
Ananya
Roy, (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1999),
Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning.
Interests: Comparative Urban Studies, International
Development, Critical Theory.
Shankar Shastry (Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley, 1981) Dean of the College of Engineering;
Director, Center for Information Technology Research; NEC Distinguished
Professor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science &
Bio-engineering.
Interests: embedded and autonomous software, computer vision,
computation in novel substrates such as DNA, nonlinear and adaptive
control, robotic telesurgery, control of hybrid systems, embedded systems,
sensor networks and biological motor control
AnnaLee Saxenian (Ph.D.,
MIT, 1989) Dean and Professor, School of Information Management and
Systems; Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning.
Interests: Social and economic organization of production
in technology regions like Silicon Valley.
Jane Singh (Ph.D., University
of California, Berkeley, 1990) Lecturer, Ethnic
Studies.
Interests: Asian Americans in the U.S., particularly
the history of the Indian immigrant community.
Allan
Smith, (M.D., Ph.D., University of California,
Berkeley), Professor of Epidemiology, School
of Public Health
Sally
J. Sutherland-Goldman
(Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1979) Lecturer, Sanskrit;
Associate Editor, Ramayana translation project, Department
of South and Southeast Asia Studies.
Interests: Epic and classical Sanskrit literature,
vyakarana and Veda, feminist readings of Sanskrit narratives.
Hephzibah (Hepsi) Sunkari (Ph.D.,
University of Madras, 1995) Lecturer, Telugu
Interests: Onamastics, cultural and linguistic problems of
translations, South Indian music
Clare Talwalker (Ph.D.,
Duke University, 2000) Assistant Professor, International and Area Studies.
Interests: Cultural anthropology; critical theory;
anthropology of South Asia; colonial and postcolonial studies; history
and anthropology; capitalism and globalization; urban public culture;
Marathi literary/public sphere.
Upkar
K. Ubhi (B.A.hons., University of London, 1983) Lecturer, Panjabi,
Department of South and Southeast
Asia Studies.
Interests: Early Panjabi literature and verse, Second
Language acquistition, Architecture.
Alexander von
Rospatt (Ph.D., University of Hamburg, 1993) Professor,
South and Southeast Asian Studies
Interests: Newar Buddhism and doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism.
Bonnie
Wade (Ph.D., UCLA, 1971) Professor, Music; Chair, Group
in Asian Studies
Interests: Hindustani music, general Indian and Japanese
music and ethnomusicology. Both historical and theoretical perspectives
represented in work.
Joanna
Williams (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969) Professor, History
of Art and Department
of South and Southeast Asia Studies.
Interests: art and architecture of India, particularly
ancient India.
Darren
Zook (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) Lecturer, History
of Art and Department
of Political Science.
Interests: human rights, comparative Asian politics, international law, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Other South Asia Studies Scholars and
Affiliates at Berkeley:
South
Asian Language Resource Center
[California
office:
B-40 Dwinelle Hall # 2640
Berkeley, CA 94720-2640]
Steven M. Poulos (Ph.D.,
University of Chicago), Director
South/Southeast
Asia Library Service (SSEALS)
Rebecca Darby-Williams,
Reference Specialist, Southeast Asia Curatorial Assistant and
SSEALS Operations Manager
Adnan Malik, South
Asia Librarian
Virginia Shih, Southeast
Asia Librarian
Vanessa Tait, Reference
Specialist and South Asia Curatorial Assistant
