Faculty
In addition to SAI’s steering committee, there are many other faculty across all of the different schools at Harvard who teach courses or conduct research on South Asia. Listed below are many of the faculty at Harvard who have either taught a course about South Asia or conducted research on the region.
For a complete list of Harvard faculty by research area, please visit Harvard Worldwide.
Department of Anthropology

Steven Caton
Khaled bin Abdullah bin Abdurahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Dept. of Anthropology
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Theodor Bestor
Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology; Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
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C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, Dept. of Anthropology
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Asad Ahmed
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology: Social Anthropology Program
ProfileDepartment of Comparative Literature

Karen Thornber
Department Chair & Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature; Chair, Regional Studies-East Asia; Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Dale Jorgenson
Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Harvard University
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Amartya Sen
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Department of Economics, FAS
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Homi Bhabha
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, FAS; Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost
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Ofrit Liviatan
Lecturer on Law and Politics, Dept. of Government
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Afsaneh Najambadi
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University
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SUGATA BOSE
Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, FAS
ProfileDepartment of History of Art and Architecture

Jinah Kim
George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
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Jay Jasanoff
Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology, Dept. of Linguistics
ProfileDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology

Venkatesh Murthy
Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Wayne G. Marshall
Berkman Center for Internet and Society; Dept. of Music
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Richard Wolf
Professor of Music, Department of Music: Ethnomusicology, FAS
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Malika Zhegal
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islam and Contemporary Life, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
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James Russell
Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
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Baber Johansen
Professor of Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School
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Khaled El-Rouayheb
Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
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Ali Asani
Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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DIANA ECK
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, FAS;
Member of the Faculty of Divinity, HDS;
Chair, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
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Chair, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

SHAHAB AHMED
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Committee on the Study of Religion and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Department of Social Studies

Kevin Caffrey
Lecturer on Social Studies
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Sunil Amrith
Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of History
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Alex Watson
Preceptor in Sanskrit, Dept. of South Asian Studies.
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Harpreet Singh
College Fellow, Dept. of South Asian Studies
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Jonathan Ripley
Preceptor in Tamil, Dept. of South Asian Studies

B.K. Rana
Preceptor in Nepali, Dept. of South Asian Studies

Richard Delacy
Preceptor in Urdu-Hind, Dept. of South Asian Studies

Shankar Ramaswami
South Asian Studies Fellow, 2013-2014
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Michael Witzel
Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Department of South Asian Studies

Leonard van der Kuijp
Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, FAS

Parimal G. Patil
Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
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Peter Marber
Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Daniel Ziblatt
Professor of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Donald Ostrowski
Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University

Shinju Fujihira
Executive Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, WCFIA; Lecturer in Government, Harvard Summer School/Extension School

Jocelyne Cesari
Lecturer on Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Christopher Queen
Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Business School

Akshay Mangla
Associate Professor in International Business, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
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William R. Kerr
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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Rafael M. Di Tella
Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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Rawi E. Abdelal
Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School
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Krishna G. Palepu
Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for International Development, HBS
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LAKSHMI IYER
Associate Professor of Business Administration, HBS
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William Kirby
Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, HBS
T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies, FAS
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Tarun Khanna
Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
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Divinity School

Ahmed Ragab
Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School

Anne Monius
Professor of South Asian Religions and Acting Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School

Charles Hallisey
Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, HDS

JANET GYATSO
Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, HDS

FRANCIS X. CLOONEY, S.J.
Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions
Graduate School of Design

Alexander von Hoffman
John T. Dunlop Lecturer of Housing and Urbanization, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Deirdre Schmidt
John T. Dunlop Lecturer of Housing and Urbanization, Graduate School of Design

Rahul Mehrotra
Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design
John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization
ProfileJohn T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization
Graduate School of Education

Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Assistant Professor of Education and Economics, Graduate School of Education
Kennedy School of Government

Henry Lee
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Martha Chen
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Affiliated Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Anthony Saich
Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School

NICHOLAS BURNS
Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, HKS

Rohini Pande
Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, HKS

Asim Khwaja
Director, Center for International Development; Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Mark Wu
Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Michael Stein
Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Vikramaditya Khanna
William W. Cook Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Nancy Gertner
Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School

Mark Tushnet
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Peter Rogers
Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, SEAS

Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School
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M. Omar Rahman
Adjunct Associate Professor of Demography and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

Ana Langer
Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Coordinator of the Dean's Special Initiative in Women and Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Steven Hoffman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health; Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Global Health Institute

Sue Goldie
Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management, HSPH; Director, Global Health Education and Learning Incubator, Harvard

Richard Cash
Senior Lecturer on Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Jacqueline Bhabha
FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health; the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School; and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
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Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University.

Peter Berman
Professor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and Economics
Department of Global Health and Population
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Global Health and Population
Harvard School of Public Health

SV Subramanian
Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, HSPH

Christopher Duggan
Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition, HSPH

David Bloom
Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, HSPH