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Affiliated Faculty are non-Penn faculty members research and teaching interest include South Asia. Our Affiliated Faculty Members share in, and contribute to, the knowledge and programs offered by the University's South Asia studies community. If you teach at a college or university in the Mid Atlantic region, please consider joining the South Asia Center's Affiliated Faculty. You will receive direct-borrowing privileges at Penn Libraries (renewable annually), special invitations to Center events, and opportunities to apply for funding to support the study of South Asia on your home campus. To be considered, please send your basic information, CV, along with a brief description of your South Asia related research interests in the form below. For additional questions, please contact Associate Director, Aurora Reardanz at reardanz@sas.upenn.edu
Interested in joining the Penn South Asia Center Affiliated Faculty? Please complete the form and submit your request here.
Amber Abbas, Departments of Asian Studies and History, Saint Josephs University
M. Ashraf Adeel, Department of Philosophy, Kutztown University
Umme Kalsoom Adeel, Independent Scholar
Fay Beauchamp, Department of English, Community College of Philadelphia
Monika R. Bhagat-Kennedy, Assistant Professor Department of English University of Mississippi
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Department of History, Drexel University
Pia Brancaccio, Department of Visual Studies, Drexel University
Bradley Buchner, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
David W. Carpenter, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Saint Joseph’s University
Leah Comeau, Department of the Humanities, University of the Sciences
Pallabi Chakravorty, Department of Music and Dance, Swarthmore College
Kavita Daiya, Department of English, George Washington University
Rekha Datta, Department of Political Science, Monmouth University
Jonathan Dickstein, Assistant Professor, Arihanta Institute
Douglas Duckworth, Department of Religion, Temple University
Arvind Elangovan, Department of History, Wright State University
Maura Finkelstein, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Muhlenberg College
Jo-Ann Gross, Department of History, The College of New Jersey
Lakshmi Gudipati, Department of English, Community College of Philadelphia
Bina Gupta, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri
Danielle Heeney, Penn Treaty Middle School
Ramani Hettiarchchi, Department of History, University of Peradeniya
Frank Hoffman, Department of Philosophy, West Chester University
Sylvia W. Houghteling, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
Deborah Hutton, Department of Art and Art History, The College of New Jersey
Priya Joshi, Department of English, Temple University
Anil Kalhan, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Nicole Karapanagiotis, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Rutgers University
Elizabeth Kolsky, Department of History, Villanova University
Seth Koven, Department of History, Rutgers University
Andrew Liu, Department of History, Villanova University
Xinru Liu, Department of History, The College of New Jersey
Jeffrey Long, Departments of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College
Hafeez Malik, Department of Political Science, Villanova University
Jeanne Marecek, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College
Nicholas Tajano Molnar, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Community College of Philadelphia
Edward Moon-Little, Independent Scholar
Gedeon Mudacumura, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Kalyani Mujumdar, Independent Scholar
Robert Nichols, Historical Studies Program, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Joseph J. Noyes, Biology Department, Community College of Philadelphia
Joel Ostreich, Department of History and Politics, Drexel University
Wazhmah Osman, School of Media and Communication, Temple University
Shreeyash Palshikar, Department of History, Albright College
Neeraja Poddar, PhD, Philadelphia Museum of Art
David Prejsnar, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Community College of Philadelphia
Jolly Ramakrishnan, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Ramnarayan Rawat, Department of History, University of Delaware
Penelope Echo Reardanz, National Intelligence University
Sreeparna Sarkar, Independent Scholar
Amita Satyal, Department of History, Rutgers University
Mrinalini Sebastian, Independent Scholar
Jennifer Schneider, Social Sciences, Community College of Philadelphia
Sarah Sharp, William Penn Charter School
Helen Sheehan, Health and Sociology
Amardeep Singh, Department of English, Lehigh University
Howard Spodek, History and Urban Studies, Temple University
Michael Stern, Department of Architecture, Design, and Construction, Community College of Philadelphia
Jayanti Tamm, Department of English, School of Arts & Humanities, Ocean County College
SherAli Tareen, Department of Religious Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
Glen Wallis, Won Institute of Graduate Studies
Connie Watson, Department of Pyschology, Community College of Philadelphia
Amanda Weidman, Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College
Jennifer Yusin, Department of English and Philosophy, Drexel University