About the Faculty

Faculty Member	Office	Phone
ALAM, MUZAFFAR PhD; Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1976 Professor Urdu and Indian Persian literature, history of late medieval and early modern northern India. Email	Foster Hall 201	2-7547
BASHIR, ELENA PhD; University of Michigan, 1988 Senior Lecturer Urdu and Panjabi. Languages of Pakistan. Email	Foster Hall 214	2-8632
BHADURI, MANDIRA M.A.; Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 1989 Lecturer Bangla language and literature. Email	Foster Hall 206	t.b.a.
BRONNER, YIGAL PhD; University of Chicago, 1999 Assistant Professor Sanskrit language and literature. Email	Foster Hall 205	2-6445
CHAKRABARTY, DIPESH Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College. Ph.D. Australian National University 1984 Modern Indian social and political history, modern Bengal, Labor history, Asian studies, philosophical discourses of modernity, and postcolonial theory. Email	Foster Hall 208	2-8642
COLLINS, STEVEN D.Phil; Oxford University, 1979 Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Chair of SALC Dept. Pali language and literature; social and cultural history of Buddhism. Email	Foster Hall 210	2-9131
DONIGER, WENDY PhD; Harvard University, 1968 Professor Hinduism and comparative mythology. Email	Swift Hall 207	2-8239
EBELING, SASCHA PhD; University of Cologne Assistant Professor Tamil language and literature. Email	Foster Hall 203	2-2614
ENGBLOM, PHILIP PhD; University of Minnesota, 1983 Senior Lecturer Marathi language. Email	Classics 45A	4-8846
GRUNEBAUM, JASON MFA, Columbia University, 2004 Senior Lecturer Hindi language. Email	Foster Hall 511	2-8644
JORDEN, NGAWANG PhD; Harvard University, 2003 Lecturer Tibetan language, Tibetan Buddhism. Email	Foster Hall 204	2-0627
KOMMATTAM, NISHA MA; University of Cologne Lecturer Malayalam language. Email	Classics 45G	2-6317
LINDHOLM, JAMES PhD; University of Chicago Senior Lecturer Tamil language. Email	Foster Hall 211	2-1527
MAJUMDAR, ROCHONA PhD; University of Chicago, 2003 Assistant Professor Social and cultural history of modern South Asia. Email	Foster Hall 213	2-8123
RAMANARASIMHAM, PARIMI PhD; University of Mysore, 1988. Visiting Professor Telugu language and literature. Email	Classics 413	4-9783
RITTER, VALERIE PhD; University of Washington Assistant Professor Hindi language and literature. Email	Foster Hall 215	4-8618
SHULMAN, DAVID PhD; University of London, 1976 Visiting Professor (Winter & Spring 2007) Tamil Islam, poetics, history of religion	Foster Hall 206	4-9499
STARK, ULRIKE PhD; University of Bamberg; Habilitation, University of Heidelberg, 2004 Professor Hindi language and literature, modern South Asian intellectual history. Email	Foster Hall 202	2-8345
TUBB, GARY PhD; Harvard University, 1979 Professor Sanskrit poetry and poetics, Sanskrit grammatical and commentarial traditions, Indian philosophy. Email	Foster Hall 207	4-8525
WENTWORTH, BLAKE PhD Candidate; University of Chicago Lecturer Sanskrit language. Email	Foster Hall 212	2-8373