Faculty
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Christopher Candland
Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Focused on the political dimensions of human development, based on comparative and quantitative studies within Southern Asia.
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T. James Kodera
Professor of Religion
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
An educator and a scholar in the comparative and historical study of religion with a focus on Asia, as the word "Asia" is understood historically and broadly to include West Asia, South Asia and East Asia.
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Riyaz Latif
Visiting Lecturer in South Asia Studies
Dip.Arch., Institute of Environmental Design, India; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Teaches elementary and intermediate Hindi/Urdu, as well as classes in art history, Islamic cultures and premodern Islamic travelers.
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Louise Marlow
Professor of Religion
B.A., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Program Director for Middle Eastern Studies.
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Deborah C. Matzner
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Cultural anthropologist of media and South Asia specializing in the ethnography of media production and visual culture in India.
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Smitha Radhakrishnan
Assistant Professor of Sociology
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Interested in globalization, gender, and nationalism; and in interdisciplinary, interactive learning in the classroom.
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Nikhil Rao
Associate Professor of History
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Scholar of urban history and urban economic and political development in South Asia.
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Margery M. Sabin
Lorraine C. Wang Professor of English
B.A., Radcliffe College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Teacher and scholar of English and comparative literature.
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Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
Associate Professor of South Asia Studies
B.A., M.A., Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (India); M.Div., Ph.D., Harvard University
