SASI Director
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
25-26 sabbatical
- jvb6460@psu.edu
Research Interests: Gender, sexuality, and religion in South Asia; Hinduism; goddess traditions; Nepal
Faculty with a South Asian Studies Focus
Research Interests: Muslim communities; medieval and early modern South Asia (c. 1200-1800); the Indian Ocean world
Research Interests: Political ecology; development; social theory; nature-society relations; gender dynamics; urban and rural water resources; India
Associate Dean for Research, Creative Activity, and Graduate Studies
Professor of Landscape Architecture
- mallika-bose@psu.edu
Research Interests: Built Environment and Active Living/Healthy Eating; Public Scholarship and Community Based Design; Gender and Development; and Design/Planning Pedagogy
Research Interests: South Asian architecture, urbanism, and art
Research Interests: Language pedagogy, technology and language, and Indian cinema
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, and Comparative Literature
- ebj2@psu.edu
Research Interests: Indian Ocean Studies; migration studies; diasporic studies and creolization
Research Interests: Colonial history; modernization and development; science and technology; agrarian history
Research Interests: Buddhism, Hinduism, pan-Asian Tantra, Tantra and Yoga, Margins and Marginalization, Art History, Ethnography and Ethnomusicology, Plural Religious Spaces, and Indigenous Religions.
Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies
- aparna@psu.edu
Research Interests: South Asian comparative urbanism; South Asian and transnational feminisms; Hindutva nationalism
Research Interests: Fertility, mortality, marriage, family, kinship; quantitative/demographic and qualitative approaches
Research Interests: Comparative politics; political economy; political institutions; judicial politics, development survey methods; India, Pakistan, Brazil, and China
Academic Adviser
Graduate Students with a South Asian Studies Focus
- uxa5030@psu.edu
Research Interests: Queer rhetorics, de/colonial, transnational, third-world feminisms, South Asia, composition theory, embodiment, critical disability studies
- njb5958@psu.edu
Research Interests: Critical Agrarian Studies, Feminist Political Ecology, Irrigation and Water Management, South Asia, Food Security and Dietary Diversity, Climate Smart Agriculture
- vmc5404@psu.edu
Research Interests: Spatial justice, urban informality, everyday urbanisms, place-making practices, public space, and community-engaged/participatory research.
- pmp5473@psu.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Governance, Political Ecology, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Ethnography, South Asia
- sbs6425@psu.edu
Research Interests: Hijra Subjectivities and Transnationality, Informal Literacies and World-Making; Caste, Gender, and Pedagogies; LGBTQIA+ studies
- hxs5376@psu.edu
Research Interests: Natural Hazards, Floods, GIS climate science statistics
- aqs7632@psu.edu
Research Interests: Feminist Urban Geography, Women's Leisure, Place-making, India
Research Interests: Women's agency, Comparative and international education, sociology of education, gender, migration, South Asia
South Asian Studies Initiative Staff
