Faculty

  • 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

  • Chaitanya Lakkimsetti

    Associate Professor, Sociology, Women’s & Gender Studies

    Research interests: gender, sexuality, law, citizenship; transnational approaches to study sexual and gender inequalities

  • Koyel Khan

    Instructional Assistant Professor, Sociology

    Research interests: gender, sexuality, culture, globalization

  • 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

  • Priya Jain

    Associate Professor, Architecture

    Research interests: South Asian and South Asian American architectural history and preservation

  • 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

  • Ananya Tiwari

    Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology

    Research interests: sense of belonging, evaluation, social and emotional development, educational technology, artificial intelligence, international development

  • Gisele Cardoso de Lemos

    Program Coordinator for National Fellowships, LAUNCH

    Research interests: religious studies

  • Rebecca Hankins

    Professor, Global Languages & Cultures

    Research interests: Africana studies, African American studies, Black studies, religion, popular culture, Islam, pluralism

  • 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