Faculty
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Jyotsna Vaid
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research interests: Cognitive and Neurocognitive aspects of bilingualism; Gender and race in psychological inquiry; creative thinking and language; reading processes and writing systems
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Chaitanya Lakkimsetti
Associate Professor, Sociology, Women’s & Gender Studies
Research interests: gender, sexuality, law, citizenship; transnational approaches to study sexual and gender inequalities
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Koyel Khan
Instructional Assistant Professor, Sociology
Research interests: gender, sexuality, culture, globalization
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Vanita Reddy
Associate Professor, English
Research interests: transnational literatures, race and ethnicity studies, African American and African diaspora literature, Asian American and Asian diaspora, gender and sexuality, multi-ethnic literature
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Priya Jain
Associate Professor, Architecture
Research interests: South Asian and South Asian American architectural history and preservation
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Kathleen O'Reilly
Professor, Geography
Research interests: gender, water, and sanitation interventions in rural and urban India, feminist geography, gendered access to resources and human-environment interactions
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Ananya Tiwari
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Research interests: sense of belonging, evaluation, social and emotional development, educational technology, artificial intelligence, international development
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Gisele Cardoso de Lemos
Program Coordinator for National Fellowships, LAUNCH
Research interests: religious studies
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Rebecca Hankins
Professor, Global Languages & Cultures
Research interests: Africana studies, African American studies, Black studies, religion, popular culture, Islam, pluralism
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Sheela Athreya
Professor, Anthropology
Research interests: post colonialism in biological anthropology, human biological variation, craniofacial biology, middle and late Pleistocene Hominid evolution and systematics
Graduate Students
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Humayra Alam
Ph.D. Student, Architecture
Research interests: spatiality of mosques, South Asian American Sunni Muslim community, South Asian American diaspora, diasporic identity
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Sami Jabarkhail
Ph.D. Human Resource Development
Research interests: national human resource development, culture in development, refugees’ development, leadership development
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Urnisa Karmakar
Ph.D. Candidate, English
Research interests: caste, gender, feminism, queer theory, South Asia, south asian diaspora, performance, visual art
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Pujarinee Mitra
Ph.D. Student, English
Research interests: affect theory, anti-fascism, postcolonial studies, South Asian literature and cinema, gender and sexuality studies, cultures of fascism
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Ananya Ravishankar
Ph.D. Student, Philosophy
Website developer, and curator of South Asia Studies LibGuide
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Maia Kumar
Undergraduate Student
Outreach Assistant