Alumni

2024Akshara Ravishankar ParmeswaranCommentary and Canonization: The Bhagavad Gītā in Sanskrit and Hindi (1400-1800CE)Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ghent University
2024Titas De SarkarDādācaritmānas: A Cultural History of the Modern Bengali YouthHumanities Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago
2023Dasgupta, SupurnaIntimate Revolutions: Mean and Women in 1960s Bengali LiteratureAssistant Professor in postcolonial literature in the Department of English, Santa Clara University
2023Halladay, AndrewA Distant Throne: The British Sovereign in the Mirror of Indian Nationalism, 1919-36Assistant Professor of international history, Department of History, London School of Economics
2023Taimoor Shahid KhanSaif al-Muluk, The Quest for Love: Islam, Travels, and the Ethis of Cosmopolitanism in the Indian Ocean World 
2023Ayelet KotlerPersian Literary Translation in the Early Mughal PeriodPostdoctoral research fellow, ERC PURANA project, Leiden University
2023Taimur RezaMuslim Home-Making: Bengali Muslims' Belonging in a Transnational Horizon, c.1880-1914Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, University of Chicago
2022Ariav, TaliaIntimately Cosmopolitan: Genealogical Poets and Orchestrated Selves in 17-18th century Sanskrit Literature from South IndiaAssistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, The Hebrew University
2022Hawley, NellThe War That Wasn’t:
The Virāṭaparvan, the Pañcarātra, and the Fantasy Life of the Mahābhārata		Vassar College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
2022Poddar, SanjuktaWriting Allahabad: Texts and Identities in a Provincial City (1885-1939)University Lecturer, Universiteit Leiden
2022Newbold, ThomasThe Critical Age: Modern Periodization
and Moral Revaluation in Colonial Bengal 1818-1912 		Assistant Professor, American University of Women, Chittagong
2022Gurevitch, Eric Moses Everyday Sciences in Southwest IndiaAssistant Professor, History of Signs, Harvard University
2022Acosta, Eduardo Luciano Medieval Landscapes: The Idea of Middle Ages in BengalMellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University
2022Bhattacharyya, AbhishekPractical-Critical Selves: Leftist Organising in South AsiaClinical Assistant Professor, South Asian Cultures, New York University
2021Sastry, SharvariPerformances of Posterity: Theatre, Archives and Cultural Regulation in Modern IndiaCollegiate Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow, Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago
2021Jayanth, MalarvizhiRice and Agrarian Slavery in Southern Colonial India, 1781-1861Research Fellow in Slavery and its Impacts, King's College, Cambridge
2021Graves, JazminSongs to the African Saints of India: The Veneration of Mai Misra in the Sidi (African-Indian) Sufi Devotional Tradition of Gujarat and MumbaiAssistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2021Morgan, DanielSpokesman of the Unseen World: Shaāh Walīi Allaāh (d. 1762), Islamic Reform and Applied Cosmological Sciences in Late-Mughal North IndiaAssistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University
2020John, JoyaNature Displaced: Postcolonial Hindi Literature and the EnvironmentAssistant Professor, Department of Literature, Krea University
2020Reddy, GauthamAn Empire of Literary Telugu: Remaking Language and Community in Colonial South IndiaSouth Asian Studies Librarian, Emory University
2020Trento, MargheritaWriting Christianity in Eighteenth-Century TamiḻakamAssociate professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
2019Panda, AhonaPhilology and the Politics of Language: The Case of Bengali, 1893-1955Assistant Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College
2019Mikkelson, JaneWorlds of the Imagination: Bīdel of Delhi (d.1720) and Early Modern Persian Lyric StylePostdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, College Fellows Visiting Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
2018D'Avella, VictorCreating The Perfect Language: Sanskrit Grammarians, Poetry, and The Exegetical TraditionDepartmental Lecturer in Sanskrit, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
2018Hanlon, JulieJain Monks, Merchants, and Kings in Early Historic South IndiaSenior Analyst, Learning Technology, University of Chicago
2018Uskokov, Aleksandar Deciphering the Hidden Meaning: Scripture and the Hermeneutics of Liberation in Early Advaita VedāntaLecturer of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies, Yale University
2018Jones, JamalA Poetics of Power in Andhra, 1323-1450 CEAssistant Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017Epperson, ErinKālidāsa in Tibet: Messenger Poetry in TranslationPublic Educator of Violence Prevention, Assertiveness, and Mindfulness. Owner of Culture of Safety LLC
2017Lhost, ElizabethBetween Community and Qānūn: Documenting Islamic Legal Practice in Nineteenth-Century British IndiaPostdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College
2016Ambrosone, EllenMaking Modern Malayalam: Literary and Educational Practices in Nineteenth-Century KeralaSouth Asian Studies Librarian, Princeton University
2016Momin, WafiThe Formation of the Satpanth Ismaili Tradition in South AsiaHead, Ismaili Special Collections Unit, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London​
2015Roychoudhuri, RanuThe Public Lives of Photographs: Aesthetic Conventions and Sociocultural Change in Twentieth-Century IndiaAssistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati 
2015Loewy Shacham, IlanitKṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada and the Narration of a Śrīvaiṣṇava CommunityProfessor, South Asian literature, Tel Aviv University
2014Ghosh, AbhishekVaiṣṇavism and the West: A Study of Kedarnath Datta Bhaktivinod's Encounter and Response, 1869-1909Assistant Professor, Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies, Grand Valley State University
2014Wright, SamuelThe Expansion of a Discipline: Intellectual Change in Nyaya-Sastra in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century IndiaPostdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
2013Huntington, EricPortrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & CultureAnnette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University
2012Dey, ArnabOf Planters, Ecology and Labor: Plantation Worlds, Human History and Nonhuman Actors in Eastern India (Assam), 1840-1910Associate Professor, State University of New York at Binghamton
2012Fischel, RoySociety, Space, and the State in the Deccan Sultanates, 1565-1636Lecturer, SOAS University of London
2012Satpathy, SiddharthA Literary History of the Pastoral SubjectAssistant Professor, University of Hyderabad
2011Dubrow, JenniferFrom Newspaper Sketch to "Novel": The Writing and Reception of Fasana-e Azad in North India, c. 1878-1880Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington
2010Kroll, EthanA Logical Approach to LawPartner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
2010Birkenholtz, JessicaThe Svasthani Vrata Katha: Translating Self, Place, and Identity in Hindu NepalAssociate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State
2010Leonard, SpencerA Fit of Absence of Mind? Illiberal Imperialism and the Founding of British India, 1747-1776Lecturer, Department of History, University of Tennessee
2009O'Donnell, ErinHistory, Trauma and Remembering: The Construction of a Postcolonial Bengali Cultural Identity in Ritwik Ghatak's FilmsAssociate Professor, Department of History, East Stroudsburg University
2009Knutson, JesseThe Consolidation Of Literary Registers And The World Of The Senas: Late Twelfth/ Early Thirteenth-Century Bengal.Associate Professor, Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii
2008Ahmed, MananThe Many Histories Of Muhammad B. Qasim: Narrating The Muslim Conquest Of SindhAssociate Professor, Department of History, Columbia University
2008Fuhrmann, ArnikaGhostly Desires: Sexual Subjectivity in Thai Cinema and Politics after 1997Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
2008Kinra, RajeevSecretary-Poets In Mughal India And The Ethos Of Persian: The Case Of Chandar Bhan BrahmanAssociate Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University
2008Tiwari, BulbulMaha Multipedia: A Nine-Night Performance Of The "Mahabharata" Reworked In Mixed MediaAdjunct Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Georgetown University
2007Yazijian, EdwardFrom Performance To Literature: The “Candimangala” Of Kavikankana Mukundarama CakravartiAssistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Furman University
2006Cox, WhitneyMaking A Tantra In Medieval South India: The Maharthamañjari And The Textual Culture Of Cola CidambaramAssociate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
2006Sahota, GuriqbalA Literature Of The Sublime In Late Colonial India: Romanticism And The Epic Form In Modern Hindi And UrduAssociate Professor, Department of Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz
2005Chandra Shobhi, PrithviPre-Modern Communities And Modern Histories: Narrating Virasaiva And Lingayat SelvesAssociate Professor, Department of History, Krea University
2005Gautam, SanjayConflict Of Callings: Literature, Politics, And The Birth Of Pain In The Poetry Of Muktibodh (1917-1964)Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
2005Nicholson, AndrewDoctrine And Boundary-Formation: The Philosophy Of Vijñanabhiksu In Indian Intellectual HistoryAssociate Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University
2004Bledsoe, BronwenWritten In Stone: Inscriptions Of The Kathmandu Valley’s Three KingdomsAdjunct Assistant Professor and Curator of the South Asia Collection, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
2004Ayres, AlyssaSpeaking Like A State: Nationalism, Language, And The Case Of PakistanDean, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University
2004Fair, CarolThe Historical Novels Of Bhai Vir Singh: Narratives Of Sikh NationhoodProfessor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University
2004Mookerjea-Leonard, DebaliUnfinished Histories: Gendered Violence and National Identity in Women’s WritingsProfessor, Department of English, James Madison University
2004Vajpeyi, AnanyaPolitics Of Complicity, Poetics Of Contempt: A History Of The "Sudra" In Maharashtra 1650-1950 CeAssociate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
2003Majumdar, RochonaMarriage, Modernity, and Sources of the Self: Bengali Women C. 1870-1956Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
2003Busch, AllisonThe Courtly Vernacular: The Transformation Of Brajbhasa Literary Culture (1590-1690)Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
2003Rotman, AndrewMonks, Merchants, And A Moral Economy: Visual Culture And The Practice Of Faith In The DivyavadanaProfessor, Department of Religion, Smith College
2002Veidlinger, DanielSpreading The Dhamma: The Written Word And The Transmission Of Pali Texts In Pre-Modern Northern ThailandProfessor, Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities, California State University, Chico
2000Phukan, ShantanuThrough A Persian Prism: Hindi And Padmavat In The Mughal ImaginationAssistant Professor, San Jose State University
2000Schneibel, JeffreyThe Construction Of JagannathUniversity Archivist and Pastoral Resident, University of Portland