Faculty

  • Arun Agrawal

    Arun Agrawal

    Professor and Associate Dean for Research
    School of Natural Resources and Environment
    4028 Dana

    Political Economy, Environmental Governance, Community-based Conservation734.647.5948 / arunagra@umich.edu


  • Gautam Ahuja

    Harvey C Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business
    Stephen M Ross School of Business

    734.763.1591 / gahuja@umich.edu


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    S. Ekhteyar Ali

    Urdu Language
    Director of the South Asian Language Program
    6044 STB

    734.647.8647 / ekhteyar@umich.edu


  • Ravi Murthy Anupindi

    David B Hermelin Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Technology and Operations
    Ross School of Business

    734.615.8621 / anupindi@umich.edu


  • Raj Arunachalamn

    Raj Arunachalam

    Assistant Professor of Economics

    Development economics and economic history, economics of marriage markets and fertility734.763.5029 / arunacha@umich.edu


  • Susan Ashford

    Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Human Resource Managment & Organizational Behavior
    Stephen M Ross School of Business

    734.763.1091 / sja@umich.edu


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    William G. Axinn

    Professor of Sociology, College of LSA

    Population and Ecology; family organization; intergenterational relationships, marriage, cohabitation and fertility in the US and Nepalbaxinn@umich.edu


  • Mousumi Banerjee, Ph.D.

    Mousumi Banerjee

    Director of Biostatistics, Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy

    Statistical Methods for Cancer Research, Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Health Services Research734-764-5451 / mousumib@umich.edu


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    Jennifer S. Barber

    Associate Chair and Professor of Sociology
    College of LSA

    The Intersection of Family Sociology, Demography, and Social Psychologyjebarber@umich.edu


  • Sharmadip Basu

    Lecturer in Asian Languages and Cultures

    shbasu@umich.edu


  • Judith Becker

    Judith O. Becker

    Emeritus Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology

    Ethnomusicology, Music and Religion,734.763.3278 / beckerj@umich.edu


  • Sarah Besky

    Sarah Besky

    Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoc
    Assistant Professor in Anthropology and SNRE
    230-D West Hall

    734.615.3367 / besky@umich.edu


  • Bhatia

    Varuni Bhatia

    Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies 5139 STB

    Bhakti/Devotional traditions; Colonialism; Religious Nationalism; Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere734.763.1592 / varunib@umich.edu


  • Sugato Bhattacharyya

    Associate Professor of Finance

    Applied Game Theory; Corporate Finance734.763.9777 / sugato@umich.edu


  • Wayne Brockbank

    734.764.6105 / wbrock@umich.edu


  • Nachiket Chanchani

    Nachiket Chanchani

    Assistant Professor of South Asian Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture

    nachiket@umich.edu


  • Juan R. Cole

    Juan Cole

    Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History 2527 Haven Hall

    Modern Middle East; Muslim South Asia; Social and Intellectual History734.763.4207 / jrcole@umich.edu


  • Madhav Deshpande

    Madhav Deshpande

    Professor of South Asian Literature and Linguistics 5016 STB

    Historical linguistics;Sanskrit grammatical tradition;Sanskrit phonetics;Indo-Aryan linguistics;Sociolinguistics of Sanskrit and Prakrit languages734.647.2159 / mmdesh@umich.edu


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    Leela Fernandes

    Professor (by courtesy)
    Professor of Women's Studies
    1122 Lane Hall
    734.763.2047

    Gender and Politics; Feminist Theory; Urban Politics; Comparative Government and Politicsleelaf@umich.edu


  • Tom Fricke

    Professor and Chair, Anthropology 101-A West Hall, 206-B West Hall, 2218 ISR

    Anthropological Demography, Social Change, and the Family and Fertility in Nepal and South and East Asia734.764.2319


  • V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan

    Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Writing

    vasugi@umich.edu


  • Dirgha Ghimire

    734.936.3125 / nepdjg@umich.edu


  • Pinderjeet Kaur Gill

    Lecturer I of Punjabi and Hindi Language 6076 STB

    Folk Beliefs, Lore and songs of Punjab734-763-5306 / pjgill@umich.edu


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    William Glover

    Associate Professor of Architecture, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

    Colonial and postcolonial architecture and urbanism, nineteenth and twentieth century urban South Asia, space, social theory, and question of modernity734.936.0203 / wglover@umich.edu


  • Michael Gordon

    734.763.1387 / mdgordon@umich.edu


  • Meilu Ho

    Assistant Professor of Musicology

    South Asia, temple-classical and Hindu-Muslim relations, trans-regional studies, music and religion, emotion, hybridity, power of soundmlho@umich.edu


  • Howard Hu

    Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and NSF International Departmental Chair of Environmental Health Sciences

    Environmental health and medicinehowardhu@umich.edu


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    Matthew Hull

    Associate Professor of Anthropology 224-A West Hall

    Semiotics, bureaucracy and governance, corporations, urban planning, material culture, science and technology734.763.5382 / hullm@umich.edu


  • Prashant Kale

    Assistant Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business

    How firms make choices between "alliances and acquisitions"; how managers make ownership choices in inter-firm technology relationships; evolution and performance of allinaces in emerging economies734-764-2305 / kale@umich.edu


  • Aneel Karnani

    Associate Professor, Chair of Strategy- Ross School of Business

    akarnani@umich.edu


  • Vikramaditya S. Khanna

    Professor of Law

    Law and development in India, corporate law and practice, law and economics, international law, comparative law, public law and regulatory policy734.615.6959 / vskhanna@umich.edu


  • Aradhna Krishna

    Professor of Marketing

    aradhna@umich.edu


  • Mayuram S Krishnan

    Joseph Handelman Professor of Business Information Technology: Chair of Business Information Technology

    Corporate IT strategy, Business value of IT investments, and management of distributed business processes, software engineering economics734.763.6749 / mskrish@umich.edu


  • Andrew Lawlor

    734.763.5809 / alawlor@umich.edu


  • Michael Lempert

    Assistant Professor, Anthropology 234-E West Hall (office), 238-D West Hall (lab)

    Anthropology; linguistic anthropology; interaction; semiotics; social theory; stance and affect; religion; Tibet; South Asia734.764.2156 / mlemp@umich.edu


  • Donald Lopez

    Donald Lopez

    A.E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist Studies
    Department Chair
    6111 STB

    734.615.1331 / dlopez@umich.edu


  • Ram Mahalingham

    Ramaswami Mahalingam

    Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies 3263 East Hall

    734.763.0049 / ramawasi@umich.edu


  • Arvind-Pal Mandair

    Associate Professor and S.C.S.B Endowed Professor of Sikh Studies 6155 STB

    Current research interests focus on exploring the intersections between religion and comparative cultural theory and rethinking the relationship between mysticism and politics in Indic religions734.763.6307 / amandair@umich.edu


  • Christi Merrill

    Christi Merrill

    Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Languages 5131 STB

    734.647.2096 / merrillc@umich.edu


  • Brian Min

    Brian Min

    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
    7634 Haven Hall
    505 S. State St.

    Political economy of develeopment, energy politics; research on rural electrification programs in India, Senegal, and Mali734-615-4708 / brianmin@umich.edu


  • Farina Mir

    Farina Mir

    Director, Center for South Asian Studies 2757 Haven Hall

    South Asian History (Modern and Early Modern)734.647.5416 / fmir@umich.edu


  • Ranjanpreet Nagra

    Hindi and Urdu Language 6018 STB

    Hindu and Urdu Languages734.763.7153 / rnagra@umich.edu


  • M P Narayanan

    734.763.5936 / mpn@umich.edu


  • Jerome Nriagu

    Professor Environmental Health Sciences

    Environmental health problems in the developing countries734.936.0706 / jnriagu@umich.edu


  • Mercedes Pascual

    Mercedes Pascual

    734.763.7142 / pascual@umich.edu


  • Punathambekar

    Aswin Punathambekar

    Assistant Professor 5427 North Quad

    734.615.0949 / aswinp@umich.edu


  • Venkatram Ramaswamy

    734.763.5932 / venkatr@umich.edu


  • Sugata Ray

    Lecturer I

    734.764.5400 / rayx@umich.edu


  • Stephen Rush

    Professor of Dance & Performing Arts Technology

    Improvisation, music technology, interdisciplinary compositional techniques734.647.2286 / srush@umich.edu


  • Minnie Sinha

    Mrinalini Sinha

    Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History 1743 Haven Hall

    Colonial India; British Empire; World History734.615.3451 / sinha@umich.edu


  • Carla Sinopoli

    4030 Museums

    Archaeology of South Asia, particularly Vijayanagara Empire; Material Culture; Pre-Colonial Empires734.764.0484 / sinopoli@umich.edu


  • Jagadeesh Sivadasan

    Assistant Professor of Business

    Industrial Organization; International Economics; Productivity Growth; Regulation734.763.2373 / jagadees@umich.edu


  • Rachel Snow

    Rachel Campbell Snow

    Associate Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education, School of Public Health
    Associate Research Professor, Population Studies Center

    International Reproductive Health, Policy and Planning; Gender, Human Rights, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Contraceptive Technologyrcsnow@umich.edu


  • Gareth Sparham

    Lecturer II in Asian Languages and Cultures

    734.647.8657 / gsparham@umich.edu


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    Arland Thornton

    Professor

    arlandt@umich.edu


  • Thomas R. Trautmann

    Marshall Sahlins Collegiate Professor of History and Anthropology, Emeritus

    Ancient Indian History; Aryan Concept; History of Anthropology; Kinship and Family in Indiattraut@umich.edu


  • Richard P. Tucker

    Adjunct Professor of Natural Resources

    Modern history of South Asia, environmental history of South and Southeast Asia, global environmental trends734.763.9279 / rptucker@umich.edu


  • James Walsh

    734.936.2768 / jpwalsh@umich.edu


  • Susan Pratt Walton

    Susan Pratt Walton

    Lecturer, Music 105 Tyler

    734.763.0179 / swalton@umich.edu


  • Tom Weisskopf

    Tom Weisskopf

    tomw@umich.edu


  • Jennifer Wenzel

    Associate Professor of English Language and Literature

    Literatures of Third World Liberation; Postcolonial Theory; South and West African Literatures in English; 20th Century South Asian Literatures; World Literatures in English734.764.6330 / jawenzel@umich.edu