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

Theodor Bestor

Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology; Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky

Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, Dept. of Anthropology

Richard Meadow

Director of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory at the Peabody Museum; Senior-Lecturer on Anthropology, FAS; Project Director of HARP, the Harappa Archaeological Research Project.

Asad Ahmed

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology: Social Anthropology Program

Department 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

Department of Economics

Dale Jorgenson

Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Harvard University

Amartya Sen

Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Department of Economics, FAS

Department of English

Homi Bhabha

Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, FAS; Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost

Department of Government

Ofrit Liviatan

Lecturer on Law and Politics, Dept. of Government

Department of History

Afsaneh Najambadi

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University

SUGATA BOSE

Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, FAS

Department 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

Department of Linguistics

Jay Jasanoff

Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology, Dept. of Linguistics

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Venkatesh Murthy

Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Department of Music

Wayne G. Marshall

Berkman Center for Internet and Society; Dept. of Music

Richard Wolf

Professor of Music, Department of Music: Ethnomusicology, FAS

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Malika Zhegal

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islam and Contemporary Life, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

James Russell

Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Baber Johansen

Professor of Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Khaled El-Rouayheb

Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Ali Asani

Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Department of Religion

DIANA ECK

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, FAS;
Member of the Faculty of Divinity, HDS;
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

Department of South Asian Studies

Sunil Amrith

Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of History

Alex Watson

Preceptor in Sanskrit, Dept. of South Asian Studies.

Harpreet Singh

College Fellow, Dept. of South Asian Studies

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

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

Division of Continuing Education and Summer School

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

William R. Kerr

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Rafael M. Di Tella

Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Rawi E. Abdelal

Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School

Krishna G. Palepu

Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for International Development, HBS

LAKSHMI IYER

Associate Professor of Business Administration, HBS

William Kirby

Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, HBS
T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies, FAS

Tarun Khanna

Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School

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

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

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

Law School

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

School of Public Health

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

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

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