Alumni | South Asian Languages and Civilizations

2022	Ariav, Talia	Intimately Cosmopolitan: Genealogical Poets and Orchestrated Selves in 17-18th century Sanskrit Literature from South India	The Hebrew University, Postdoctoral Fellow (David Shulman's ERC Project "NEEM")
2022	Hawley, Nell	The War That Wasn’t: The Virāṭaparvan, the Pañcarātra, and the Fantasy Life of the Mahābhārata	Harvard University, Preceptor in Sanskrit
2022	Poddar, Sanjukta	Writing Allahabad: Texts and Identities in a Provincial City (1885-1939)	Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
2022	Newbold, Thomas	The Critical Age: Modern Periodization and Moral Revaluation in Colonial Bengal 1818-1912
2022	Gurevitch, Eric Moses	Everyday Sciences in Southwest India	Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University
2022	Acosta, Eduardo Luciano	Medieval Landscapes: The Idea of Middle Ages in Bengal	Teaching Fellow in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
2022	Bhattacharyya, Abhishek	Practical-Critical Selves: Leftist Organising in South Asia	Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology and the College, University of Chicago
2021	Sastry, Sharvari	Performances of Posterity: Theatre, Archives and Cultural Regulation in Modern India	Collegiate Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow, Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago
2021	Jayanth, Malarvizhi	Rice and Agrarian Slavery in Southern Colonial India, 1781-1861	Research Fellow in Slavery and its Impacts, King's College, Cambridge
2021	Graves, Jazmin	Songs to the African Saints of India: The Veneration of Mai Misra in the Sidi (African-Indian) Sufi Devotional Tradition of Gujarat and Mumbai	Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2021	Morgan, Daniel	Spokesman of the Unseen World: Shaāh Walīi Allaāh (d. 1762), Islamic Reform and Applied Cosmological Sciences in Late-Mughal North India	Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University
2020	John, Joya	Nature Displaced: Postcolonial Hindi Literature and the Environment	Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, Krea University
2020	Reddy, Gautham	An Empire of Literary Telugu: Remaking Language and Community in Colonial South India	South Asian Studies Librarian, Emory University
2020	Trento, Margherita	Writing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Tamiḻakam	Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2019	Panda, Ahona	Philology and the Politics of Language: The Case of Bengali, 1893-1955	Assistant Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College
2019	Mikkelson, Jane	Worlds of the Imagination: Bīdel of Delhi (d.1720) and Early Modern Persian Lyric Style	Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer, College Fellows Visiting Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
2018	D'Avella, Victor	Creating The Perfect Language: Sanskrit Grammarians, Poetry, and The Exegetical Tradition	Departmental Lecturer in Sanskrit, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
2018	Hanlon, Julie	Jain Monks, Merchants, and Kings in Early Historic South India	Senior Analyst, Learning Technology, University of Chicago
2018	Uskokov, Aleksandar	Deciphering the Hidden Meaning: Scripture and the Hermeneutics of Liberation in Early Advaita Vedānta	Lecturer of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies, Yale University
2018	Jones, Jamal	A Poetics of Power in Andhra, 1323-1450 CE	Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017	Epperson, Erin	Kālidāsa in Tibet: Messenger Poetry in Translation	Public Educator of Violence Prevention, Assertiveness, and Mindfulness. Owner of Culture of Safety LLC
2017	Lhost, Elizabeth	Between Community and Qānūn: Documenting Islamic Legal Practice in Nineteenth-Century British India	Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College
2016	Ambrosone, Ellen	Making Modern Malayalam: Literary and Educational Practices in Nineteenth-Century Kerala	South Asian Studies Librarian, Princeton University
2016	Momin, Wafi	The Formation of the Satpanth Ismaili Tradition in South Asia	Head, Ismaili Special Collections Unit, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
2015	Roychoudhuri, Ranu	The Public Lives of Photographs: Aesthetic Conventions and Sociocultural Change in Twentieth-Century India	Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
2015	Loewy Shacham, Ilanit	Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Āmuktamālyada and the Narration of a Śrīvaiṣṇava Community	Professor, South Asian literature, Tel Aviv University
2014	Ghosh, Abhishek	Vaiṣṇavism and the West: A Study of Kedarnath Datta Bhaktivinod's Encounter and Response, 1869-1909	Assistant Professor, Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies, Grand Valley State University
2014	Wright, Samuel	The Expansion of a Discipline: Intellectual Change in Nyaya-Sastra in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century India	Postdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
2013	Huntington, Eric	Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & Culture	Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University
2012	Dey, Arnab	Of Planters, Ecology and Labor: Plantation Worlds, Human History and Nonhuman Actors in Eastern India (Assam), 1840-1910	Associate Professor, State University of New York at Binghamton
2012	Fischel, Roy	Society, Space, and the State in the Deccan Sultanates, 1565-1636	Lecturer, SOAS University of London
2012	Satpathy, Siddharth	A Literary History of the Pastoral Subject	Assistant Professor, University of Hyderabad
2011	Dubrow, Jennifer	From Newspaper Sketch to "Novel": The Writing and Reception of Fasana-e Azad in North India, c. 1878-1880	Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington
2010	Kroll, Ethan	A Logical Approach to Law	Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
2010	Birkenholtz, Jessica	The Svasthani Vrata Katha: Translating Self, Place, and Identity in Hindu Nepal	Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State
2010	Leonard, Spencer	A Fit of Absence of Mind? Illiberal Imperialism and the Founding of British India, 1747-1776	Lecturer, Department of History, University of Tennessee
2009	O'Donnell, Erin	History, Trauma and Remembering: The Construction of a Postcolonial Bengali Cultural Identity in Ritwik Ghatak's Films	Associate Professor, Department of History, East Stroudsburg University
2009	Knutson, Jesse	The 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
2008	Ahmed, Manan	The Many Histories Of Muhammad B. Qasim: Narrating The Muslim Conquest Of Sindh	Associate Professor, Department of History, Columbia University
2008	Fuhrmann, Arnika	Ghostly Desires: Sexual Subjectivity in Thai Cinema and Politics after 1997	Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
2008	Kinra, Rajeev	Secretary-Poets In Mughal India And The Ethos Of Persian: The Case Of Chandar Bhan Brahman	Associate Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University
2008	Tiwari, Bulbul	Maha Multipedia: A Nine-Night Performance Of The "Mahabharata" Reworked In Mixed Media	Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Georgetown University
2007	Yazijian, Edward	From Performance To Literature: The “Candimangala” Of Kavikankana Mukundarama Cakravarti	Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Furman University
2006	Cox, Whitney	Making A Tantra In Medieval South India: The Maharthamañjari And The Textual Culture Of Cola Cidambaram	Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
2006	Sahota, Guriqbal	A Literature Of The Sublime In Late Colonial India: Romanticism And The Epic Form In Modern Hindi And Urdu	Associate Professor, Department of Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz
2005	Chandra Shobhi, Prithvi	Pre-Modern Communities And Modern Histories: Narrating Virasaiva And Lingayat Selves	Associate Professor, Department of History, Krea University
2005	Gautam, Sanjay	Conflict 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
2005	Nicholson, Andrew	Doctrine And Boundary-Formation: The Philosophy Of Vijñanabhiksu In Indian Intellectual History	Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University
2004	Bledsoe, Bronwen	Written In Stone: Inscriptions Of The Kathmandu Valley’s Three Kingdoms	Adjunct Assistant Professor and Curator of the South Asia Collection, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
2004	Ayres, Alyssa	Speaking Like A State: Nationalism, Language, And The Case Of Pakistan	Dean, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University
2004	Fair, Carol	The Historical Novels Of Bhai Vir Singh: Narratives Of Sikh Nationhood	Professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
2004	Mookerjea-Leonard, Debali	Unfinished Histories: Gendered Violence and National Identity in Women’s Writings	Professor, Department of English, James Madison University
2004	Vajpeyi, Ananya	Politics Of Complicity, Poetics Of Contempt: A History Of The "Sudra" In Maharashtra 1650-1950 Ce	Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
2003	Majumdar, Rochona	Marriage, Modernity, and Sources of the Self: Bengali Women C. 1870-1956	Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
2003	Busch, Allison	The Courtly Vernacular: The Transformation Of Brajbhasa Literary Culture (1590-1690)	Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
2003	Rotman, Andrew	Monks, Merchants, And A Moral Economy: Visual Culture And The Practice Of Faith In The Divyavadana	Professor, Department of Religion, Smith College
2002	Veidlinger, Daniel	Spreading The Dhamma: The Written Word And The Transmission Of Pali Texts In Pre-Modern Northern Thailand	Professor, Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities, California State University, Chico
2000	Phukan, Shantanu	Through A Persian Prism: Hindi And Padmavat In The Mughal Imagination	Assistant Professor, San Jose State University
2000	Schneibel, Jeffrey	The Construction Of Jagannath	University Archivist and Pastoral Resident, University of Portland