Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Affliations: Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell Institute of European Studies, Polson Institute of Global Development, Visual Studies Program, and South Asia Program.
Geographic Research Area: Russia, Eurasia, and India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Technology and culture, energy and the environment, media studies, and migration studies.
Professor of Development Sociology
Geographic Research Area: India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Population studies, reproductive health and family planning, gender and dvelopment, child health and mortality, and culture and demographic behavior.
Professor of Applied Economics & Management
Geographic Research Area: India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Development economics, field experiments, information economics, international trade, and labor economics.
C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics
Geographic Research Area: India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Development economics, industrial organization, game theory and welfare economics.
Professor of South Asia and Buddhist Studies and Director of the South Asia Program
Affliations: Department of Asian Studies, Religious Studies Program, Southeast Asia Program, and South Asia Program.
Geographic Research Area: Sri Lanka, India, Burma, and Thailand.
Teaching/Research Interests: Buddhist studies, religion and colonialism, and Indian ocean networks.
South Asia Curator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Affliations: Carl A. Kroch Library, Department of Asian Studies, and South Asia Program
Geographic Research Area: Nepal.
Teaching/Research Interests: History and texts of transregional South Asia, esp. social, religious, political and urban history of the Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.
Associate Professor of Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India and China.
Teaching/Research Interests: Mahayan Buddhism, translation, language and religion.
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning
Geographic Research Area: India, China, Ukraine, Fiji and America.
Teaching/Research Interests: Historic cements, modernist architecure, cultural exchange and sustainable development.
Associate Professor of History of Art
Affiliations: Institute for Comparative Modernities and South Asia Program.
Geographic Research Area: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Middle East.
Teaching/Research Interests: Modern and contemporary art, methodology and intellectual history, and film, media, and popular cultures.
Retired Professor of Sociology
Geographic Research Area: Bangladesh.
Teaching/Research Interests: Agriculture development, climate change, community-based approaches, economic development, and environment.
Follett Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Geographic Research Area: India, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and America.
Teaching/Research Interests: Design and conduct of randomized clinical trials, cohort studies, and surveillance programs in resource-limited settings.
Professor of History
Affiliations: Department of History, Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program, and South Asia Program.
Geographic Research Area: India and Pakistan.
Teaching/Research Interests: History of British colonialism, popular and radical political movements, and gender and sexuality.
Professor of South Asia Religions
Affliations: Department of Asian Studies, Religous Studies Program, and South Asia Program
Geographic Research Area: India.
Teaching/Research Interests: South Asian religions, North Indian devotional traditions, and modern Indian religious movements.
Professor Emeritus of Music
Geographic Research Area: Southeast Asia, Africa and Turkey.
Teaching/Research Interests: Performing arts of Southeast Asia, both past and present.
Senior Lecturer of Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: Sri Lanka.
Teaching/Research Interests: Teaching Sinhala as a second language, and English-Sinhala translation.
Professor of Government
Geographic Research Area: India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Agrarian political economy and agrarian reform; ethnicity and conflict; political ecology and development; and social conflicts around science and genetic engineering.
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Geographic Research Area: Nepal and the Himalaya region.
Teaching/Research Interests: Ritual syncretism, ritual and myth with power, state system of forced labor, and history of anthropology of the Himalayas.
Clinical Professor of Law
Affliations: Law School, International Human Rights Clinic, Avon Global Center for Women & Justice, International Innovation Corp, Peace Brigades International, International Human Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association, and South Asia Program.
Geographic Research Area: India, United States, and Argentina.
Teaching/Research Interests: International human rights law, women's rights, and economic, social, and cultral rights.
T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics
Geographic Research Area: India, China, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka.
Teaching/Research Interests: Development economics, public economics and economic theory and international development.
International Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies
Affiliations: Department of Natural Resources, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and South Asia Program
Geographic Research Area: Afghanistan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, China, Alaska, Canada, and Russia.
Teaching/Research Interests: Human and environmental relations, indigenous ways of knowing, food sovereignty, sustainable livelihoods, and climate change.
Stephen and Evalyn Professor of American Studies, Emerita
Geographic Research Area: India and America.
Teaching/Research Interests: Incarceration, political activism, ethnic activism, and gender.
Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning
Affiliations: Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, Visual Studies Program, Nilgiris Field Learning Center, Carl Becker House, and South Asia Program.
Geographic Research Area: India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Urbanization, planning theory, research methods, transborder/transdiscipline engaged learning.
Professor of Industrial Relations, Asian Studies and Public Affairs
Geographic Research Area: Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, China, and India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Comparative industrial relations, industrial relations policies and practices, national human resource policies and practices, and economic development policies
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Geographic Research Area: India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Sustainable economic development, intertemporal decentralization, dynamical systems: chao-cycles, and allocation theory and international trade theory.
Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Geographic Research Area: Nepal and the Himalayas.
Teaching/Research Interests: Gender, ethnicity, religion and culture.
Professor of Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Sanskrit poetics, text intergpretation, and Buddhist studies.
Associate Professor of History of Art
Geographic Research Area: India and Indonesia.
Teaching/Research Interests: Gender studies, colonialism, landscape and the human body, and material culture.
Associate Professor of Global Health, Epidemiology, and Nutrition
Geographic Research Area: India, Kenya and Ecuador.
Teaching/Research Interests: Infectious disease, nutrition, and epidemiology.
Professor of English
Geographic Research Area: India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Critical theory, twentieth-century literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, and modernism and postmodernism.
Senior Lecturer of Bengali
Geographic Research Area: India and Bangladesh.
Teaching/Research Interests: Bengali and English, esp. linguistic variety in oral Bengali.
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies
Geographic Research Area: Trinidad and the Asian Diaspora in the Americas.
Teaching/Research Interests: Ethnicity and nationalism, the politics of exclusion, and nation-building.
Senior Lecturer of Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: Nepal.
Teaching/Research Interests: Nepali language and culture
Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Art, Architecture, and Planning
Geographic Research Area: India, Nepal, China and US.
Teaching/Research Interests: Obervation and intepretation, multimedia art, and science and art.
Professor of Applied Economics and Management & Director of Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI)
Affiliations: Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition, and South Asia Program.
Geographic Research Area: India, Philippines and Mexico.
Teaching/Research Interests: Agricultural policy, nutrition, poverty, development and the environment.
Professor of Applied Economics and Management
Geographic Research Area: India, China and other emerging markets.
Teaching/Research Interests: Macroeconomics of financial globalization, financial regulation, and monetary policy frameworks and exchange rate policies in emerging markets
Adjunct Professor of Plant Breeding & Genetics and Associate Director of Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II
Geographic Research Area: India and Bangladesh.
Teaching/Research Interests: Research and technology transfers to promote agricultural innovations.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Feminist, postcolonial and queer theories, religion and secularism, medicine and the body
Teaching Associate of Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India and Pakistan
Teaching/Research Interests: All levels of Urdu and advanced level of Hindi
Senior Lecturer of Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: All levels of Hindi language.
Professor of History
Geographic Research Area: Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia.
Teaching/Research Interests: The history of people, ideas, and material in motion in the Indian Ocean during the late colonial age.
Associate Professor of History
Geographic Research Area: India and Pakistan
Teaching/Research Interests: British Empire, legacy of Indo-Persian politics in colonial era, history of political and economic ideas, and the history of global interconnections.
Professor Emeritus of Government and International Agriculture
Geographic Research Area: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan.
Teaching/Research Interests: development administration, irrigation management, local participation, agro-ecology, and strategies for broad-based rural development.
Professor of Anthropology
Geographic Research Area: India, Malaysia and North America
Teaching/Research Interests: Tamil displacement, revivalism, and identity politics, language and religion, mental health, psychiatry, neurology, and religious healing traditions
Professor of Architecture
Geographic Research Area: India.
Teaching/Research Interests: Modern and contemporary urbanism and architecture and comparative modernities in the global south and global north.