Affiliated Faculty

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Affiliated Faculty are non-Penn faculty members whose 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. 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. Priority is given to those who teach at a college or university in the Mid Atlantic region.

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 submit your request here.
 

Amber Abbas, Departments of Asian Studies and History, Saint Josephs University
 

M. Ashraf Adeel, Department of Philosophy, Kutztown University
 

Fay BeauchampDepartment of English, Community College of Philadelphia
 

Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, Assistant Professor, English Department, U.S. Naval Academy
 

Pia BrancaccioCollege of Media Arts & Design, Drexel University
 

Bradley Buchner, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

 

Patricia O'Brien, Sanskrit, Johns Hopkins University

 

David W. Carpenter, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Saint Joseph’s University 

 

Leah Comeau, Department of the Humanities, University of the Sciences
 

Pallabi ChakravortyDepartment of Music and Dance, Swarthmore College
 

Kavita Daiya, Department of English, George Washington University
 

Rekha DattaDepartment 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

 

Alberta Ferrario, Independent Scholar

 

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 International Buddhist Studies College, Mahahaculalongkornrajavidyalaya University

 

Sylvia W. Houghteling, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College 

 

Noel Hubler, Philosophy and Political Science, Lebanon Valley College 

 

Deborah Hutton, Department of Art and Art History, The College of New Jersey


A.R.M Imtiyaz, Independent Scholar 

 

Priya Joshi, English Department, Temple University
 

Anil Kalhan, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University

 

Nicole KarapanagiotisDepartment of Philosophy and Religion, Rutgers University
 

Elizabeth KolskyDepartment of History, Villanova University
 

Seth Koven, Department of History, Rutgers University

 

Divya Kumar-Dumas, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

 

Andrew LiuDepartment 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 MalikDepartment of Political Science, Villanova University
 

Jeanne Marecek, Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College

 

Luz Martin del Campo, Department of Behavioral Sciences, 

Kingsborough Community College-The City University of New York


Nicholas Tajano MolnarDepartment of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Community College of Philadelphia

 

Edward Moon-Little, the Highland Institute 

 

Gedeon Mudacumura, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

 

Kalyani Mujumdar, Independent Scholar

 

Robert NicholsHistorical 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

 

Amita Satyal, Department of History, Rutgers University

 

Jennifer Schneider, Social Sciences, Community College of Philadelphia

 

Vivian Shannon-Ramsey, Department of Social Work, Bowie State University

 

Sarah Sharp, William Penn Charter School
 

Helen SheehanHealth and Sociology
 

Amardeep SinghDepartment of English, Lehigh University
 

Howard SpodekHistory 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

 

Mittal Trivedi, Independent Scholar

 

Rachel A Varghese, History, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

 

Glen WallisWon Institute of Graduate Studies
 

Connie Watson, Department of Pyschology, Community College of Philadelphia
 

Amanda WeidmanDepartment of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College
 

Jennifer YusinDepartment of English and Philosophy, Drexel University