FACULTY STATEMENT ON MODI VISIT TO SILICON VALLEY
As faculty who engage South Asia in our research and teaching, we write to express our concerns about the uncritical fanfare being generated over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley to promote “Digital India” on September 27, 2015.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley highlights the role of a country that has contributed much to the growth and development of Silicon Valley industries, and builds on this legacy in extending American business collaboration and partnerships with India. However Indian entrepreneurial success also brings with it key responsibilities and obligations with regard to the forms of e-governance envisioned by "Digital India."
We are concerned that the project’s potential for increased transparency in bureaucratic dealings with people is threatened by its lack of safeguards about privacy of information, and thus its potential for abuse. As it stands, “Digital India” seems to ignore key questions raised in India by critics concerned about the collection of personal information and the near certainty that such digital systems will be used to enhance surveillance and repress the constitutionally-protected rights of citizens. These issues are being discussed energetically in public in India and abroad. Those who live and work in Silicon Valley have a particular responsibility to demand that the government of India factor these critical concerns into its planning for digital futures.
We acknowledge that Narendra Modi, as Prime Minister of a country that has contributed much to the growth and development of Silicon Valley industries, has the right to visit the United States, and to seek American business collaboration and partnerships with India. However, as educators who pay particular attention to history, we remind Mr. Modi’s audiences of the powerful reasons for him being denied the right to enter the U.S. from 2005-2014, for there is still an active case in Indian courts that questions his role in the Gujarat violence of 2002 when 1,000 died.
Modi's first year in office as the Prime Minister of India includes well publicized episodes of censorship and harassment of those critical of his policies, bans and restrictions on NGOs leading to a constriction of the space of civic engagement, ongoing violations of religious freedom, and a steady impingement on the independence of the judiciary. Under Mr. Modi’s tenure as Prime Minister, academic freedom is also at risk: foreign scholars have been denied entry to India to attend international conferences, there has been interference with the governance of top Indian universities and academic institutions such as the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the Indian Institutes of Technology and Nalanda University; as well as underqualified or incompetent key appointments
made to the Indian Council of Historical Research, the Film and Television Institute of India, and the National Book Trust. A proposed bill to bring the Indian Institutes of Management under direct control of government is also worrisome. These alarming trends require that we, as educators, remain vigilant not only about modes of e-governance in India but about the political future of the country.
We urge those who lead Silicon Valley technology enterprises to be mindful of not violating their own codes of corporate responsibility when conducting business with a government which has, on several occasions already, demonstrated its disregard for human rights and civil liberties, as well as the autonomy of educational and cultural institutions.
Signed,
Meena Alexander, Distinguished Professor of English, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Anjali Arondekar, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Fredrick Asher, Professor of Art History and South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota
Paola Bacchetta, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies University of California, Berkeley
Sarada Balagopalan, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, Camden
Radhika Balakrishnan, Prof of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Shahzad Bashir, Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Manu Bhagavan, Professor of History and Human Rights, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Mona Bhan Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology DePauw University
Srimati Basu, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Prashant Bharadwaj, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Faculty Fellow, Barrett Honors College, Arizona State University
Nandini Bhattacharya, Professor of English, Texas A &M University, College-Station
Tithi Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of South Asian History, Purdue University
Amit R. Baishya, Assistant Professor of English, University of Oklahoma Akeel Bilgrami,
Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and Director, South Asian Institute, Columbia University
Purnima Bose, Associate Professor, English and International Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington
Christopher Candland, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
Paula Chakravartty, Associate Professor, Gallatin School, & Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
Shefali Chandra, Associate Professor of South Asian History Washington University, St. Louis
S. Charusheela, Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Columbia
University Indrani Chatterjee Professor of History and South Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Swati Chattopadhyay Professor History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara
Marty Chen, School of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Affiliated Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design Rohit Chopra, Associate Professor of Communication, Santa Clara University
Elora Chowdhury Associate Professor & Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
E. Valentine Daniel, Professor of Anthropology, Colombia University
Monisha Das Gupta, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Hawaii,
Manoa Jigna Desai, Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
Pawan Dhingra, Professor of Sociology, Tufts University Wendy Doniger, Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago
Richard Falk, Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English University of California, Santa Barbara
Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, Professor and Chair of Women's Studies, San Diego State University
Durba Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University
Sumanth Gopinath, Associate Professor of Music Theory, School of Music, University of Minnesota
Nitin Govil, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies, University of Southern California
Paul Greenough, Professor of History and Community and Behavioral Health and Director, South Asian Studies Program, University of Iowa
Inderpal Grewal, Professor of South Asian Studies, Yale University
Sumit Guha, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin
Thomas Blom Hansen, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for South Asia, Stanford University
Syed Akbar Hyder, Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Nalini Iyer, Professor of English, Seattle University
Priya Jaikumar, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California
Pranav Jani, Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University
Sheila Jasanoff, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Arun W. Jones, Associate Professor, Candler School of Theology, Emory University May Joseph, Professor of Social Science, Pratt Institute
Priya Joshi, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director, Center for the Humanities, Temple University
Sampath Kannan, Henry Salvatore Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Suvir Kaul, A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Waqas Khwaja, Professor of English, Agnes Scott College
Naveeda Khan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Nyla Ali Khan, Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Oklahoma,
Norman Satish Kolluri, Associate Professor of Communications, Pace University
Ruby Lal, Professor of Middle East and South Asian Studies, Emory University
Sarah Lamb, Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Division of Social Sciences, Brandeis University; Co-Chair of South Asian Studies Karen Leonard, Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, University of California,
Irvine David Lelyveld, Professor of History, Emeritus, William Paterson University
Jinee Lokaneeta, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Drew University
Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
David Ludden, Professor of History, New York University
Ritty Lukose, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and South Asian Studies, the Gallatin School, New York University
Sudhir Mahadevan Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media, University of Washington, Seattle
Tayyab Mahmud, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Global Justice Seattle University School of Law
Sunaina Maira, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
Bakirathi Mani, Associate Professor of English Literature, Swarthmore College
Rebecca J. Manring, Associate Professor of India Studies and Religious Studies Indiana University-Bloomington
Monika Mehta, Associate Professor, Department of English, Binghamton University
Jisha Menon, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Stanford University
Kalyani Devaki Menon, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, DePaul University Sally Engle Merry, Silver Professor of Anthropology, New York University
Raza Mir, Professor of Management, Cotsakos College of Business, William Paterson University
Deepti Misri, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies University of Colorado, Boulder Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Chair and Distinguished Professor of Women's & Gender Studies, and Dean's Professor of Humanities, Syracuse University
Satya P. Mohanty, Professor of English, Cornell University Megan Moodie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Projit B. Mukharji, Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Madhavi Murty, Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Vijaya Nagarajan, Associate Professor of Theology & Religious Studies, Program in Environmental Studies, University of San Francisco
Gyanendra Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, Emory University
Carla Petievich, Visiting Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Sheldon Pollock, Professor of South Asian Studies, Columbia University
Kavita Philip, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History, Trinity College
Jasbir K. Puar, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Professor of Law and Development, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
R. Radhakrishnan, Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Gloria Raheja, Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Junaid Rana, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Anupama Rao, Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College
Velcheru Narayana Rao, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University
Kasturi Ray, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies/Co-Director, South Asian Studies, San Francisco State University
M.V. Ramana, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University
Sumathi Ramaswamy, Professor of History, Duke University
Chandan Reddy, Associate Professor of English, University of Washington, Seattle
Gayatri Reddy, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
Parama Roy, Professor of English, University of California, Davis
Sharmila Rudrappa, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
G.S. Sahota, Assistant Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
Yasmin Saikia, Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies & Professor of History, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University
Arun Saldanha, Associate Professor of Geography, Environment and Society University of Minnesota
Juned Shaikh, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence and Associate Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University
Elora Shehabuddin, Associate Professor of Humanities and Political Science, Rice University
Bhaskar Sarkar, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Priya Satia, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
Aradhana Sharma, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Snehal Shinghavi, Associate Professor of English and South Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Ajay Skaria, Professor of History, University of Minnesota
Shalini Shankar, Chair and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, Northwestern University
S. Shankar, Professor of English, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English, Ohio University
Mytheli Sreenivas, Associate Professor of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University
Rajini Srikanth, Professor, English, University of Massachusetts Boston
Nidhi Srinivas, Associate Professor of Nonprofit Management, The New School
Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Harvard
University
Banu Subramaniam, Professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Raja Swamy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
Tariq Thachil, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Ashwini Tambe, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Maryland, College-Park Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jyotsna Vaid, Professor of Psychology and Director for Organizational Development, Research, and Equity Office for Diversity, Texas A&M University
Sylvia Vatuk, Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, University of Illinois, Chicago
Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Kalindi Vora, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Bonnie Zare, Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, University of Wyoming
Meena Alexander,
Distinguished Professor of English, Hunter
College and the Graduate Center,
City University
of New York
|
Arjun Appadurai, Paulette
Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
|
Anjali Arondekar,
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz
|
Fredrick Asher,
Professor of Art History and South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota
|
Paola Bacchetta,
Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies University
of California, Berkeley
|
Sarada Balagopalan,
Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers
University, Camden
|
Radhika Balakrishnan,
Prof of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
|
Shahzad Bashir, Professor
of Religious Studies, Stanford
University
|
Manu Bhagavan,
Professor of History and Human Rights, Hunter College and the
Graduate Center, The City University of New York
|
Mona Bhan
Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology DePauw
University
|
Srimati Basu,
Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Prashant Bharadwaj, Associate Professor
of Economics, University
of California, San Diego
|
Nilanjana
Bhattacharjya, Faculty Fellow, Barrett Honors College, Arizona
State University
|
Nandini
Bhattacharya, Professor of English, Texas A
&M University,
College-Station
|
Tithi
Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of South Asian History, Purdue University
|
Amit R.
Baishya, Assistant Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
|
Akeel Bilgrami,
Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and Director,
South Asian Institute, Columbia University
|
Purnima
Bose, Associate Professor, English and International
Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington
|
Christopher
Candland, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wellesley
College
|
Paula
Chakravartty, Associate Professor, Gallatin School, &
Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York
University
|
Shefali
Chandra, Associate Professor of South
Asian History Washington
University, St. Louis
|
S.
Charusheela, Associate Professor, School of
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington,
Bothell
|
Partha
Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian
Studies, Columbia
University
|
Indrani
Chatterjee Professor of History and South Asian
Studies, University
of Texas, Austin
|
Swati
Chattopadhyay Professor History of Art and
Architecture, University
of California,
Santa
Barbara
|
Marty
Chen, School
of Public Policy,
Harvard Kennedy School and Affiliated
Professor, Harvard Graduate School of
Design
Rohit
Chopra, Associate Professor of Communication, Santa Clara
University
|
Elora
Chowdhury Associate Professor & Chair, Women’s
and Gender Studies, University
of Massachusetts,
Boston
|
E. Valentine Daniel,
Professor of Anthropology, Colombia
University
|
Monisha
Das Gupta, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies
and Women’s Studies, University of Hawaii,
Manoa
|
Jigna
Desai, Professor of Gender, Women, and
Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
|
Pawan
Dhingra, Professor of Sociology, Tufts
University
|
Wendy
Doniger, Professor of the History of
Religions, University of Chicago
|
Richard Falk, Professor of
International Law Emeritus, Princeton
University
|
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English University of California,
Santa Barbara
|
Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, Professor and
Chair of Women's Studies, San
Diego State University
|
Durba Ghosh, Associate Professor
of History, Cornell University
|
Sumanth Gopinath, Associate
Professor of Music Theory, School of Music, University
of Minnesota
|
Nitin Govil,
Associate Professor of Cinema &
Media Studies, University of
Southern
California
|
Paul
Greenough, Professor of History and
Community and Behavioral Health and
Director, South Asian Studies Program, University
of Iowa
|
Inderpal
Grewal, Professor of South Asian
Studies, Yale University
|
Sumit Guha, Frances
Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor
of History, University
of Texas,
Austin
|
Thomas Blom
Hansen, Professor of Anthropology and
Director of the Center for South Asia, Stanford
University
|
Syed Akbar
Hyder, Associate Professor of South
Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin
|
Nalini Iyer,
Professor of English, Seattle University
|
Priya
Jaikumar, Associate Professor of Cinema
and Media Studies, University of
Southern
California
|
Pranav
Jani, Associate Professor of English, Ohio
State
University
Sheila
Jasanoff, Professor of Science and
Technology Studies, Harvard University, John
F.
Kennedy
School
of Government
|
Arun W. Jones,
Associate Professor, Candler School of Theology, Emory
University
|
May Joseph,
Professor of Social Science, Pratt
Institute
|
Priya Joshi,
Associate Professor of English and
Associate Director, Center for the
Humanities, Temple University
|
Sampath
Kannan, Henry Salvatore Professor of
Computer and Information Science, University
of Pennsylvania
|
Suvir Kaul,
A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English,
University of Pennsylvania
|
Waqas Khwaja,
Professor of English, Agnes Scott College
|
Naveeda Khan,
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Johns
Hopkins
University
|
Nyla Ali Khan,
Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies,
University of Oklahoma,
Norman
|
Satish
Kolluri, Associate Professor of
Communications, Pace University
|
Ruby Lal,
Professor of Middle East and South
Asian Studies, Emory University
|
Sarah Lamb,
Professor of Anthropology and Head of
the Division of Social Sciences, Brandeis
University;
Co-Chair of South Asian Studies
|
Karen Leonard,
Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, University of
California,
Irvine
|
David
Lelyveld, Professor of History,
Emeritus, William Paterson University
|
Jinee
Lokaneeta, Associate Professor of
Political Science and International
Relations, Drew University
|
Ania Loomba,
Catherine Bryson Professor of English,
University of Pennsylvania
|
David Ludden,
Professor of History, New York University
|
Ritty
Lukose, Associate Professor of
Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality
tudies,
and South Asian Studies, the Gallatin
School, New York University
|
Sudhir
Mahadevan Assistant Professor of Film
Studies, Comparative Literature, Cinema
and Media, University
of Washington,
Seattle
|
Tayyab Mahmud,
Professor of Law and Director,
Center for Global Justice Seattle University School
of Law
|
Sunaina Maira,
Professor of Asian American Studies, University of
California,
Davis
|
Bakirathi
Mani, Associate Professor of English
Literature, Swarthmore College
|
Rebecca J.
Manring, Associate Professor of India
Studies and Religious Studies Indiana
University-Bloomington
|
Monika Mehta,
Associate Professor, Department of
English, Binghamton University
|
Jisha Menon,
Assistant Professor of Theatre and
Performance Studies, Stanford University
|
Kalyani Devaki
Menon, Associate Professor of Religious
Studies, DePaul University
|
Sally Engle
Merry, Silver Professor of
Anthropology, New York University
|
Raza Mir,
Professor of Management, Cotsakos College of Business, William
Paterson
University
|
Deepti Misri,
Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies University of
Colorado,
Boulder
|
Chandra
Talpade Mohanty, Chair and
Distinguished Professor of Women's
& Gender Studies, and Dean's
Professor of Humanities, Syracuse
University
|
Satya P.
Mohanty, Professor of English, Cornell
University
|
Megan Moodie,
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of
California,
Santa
Cruz
|
Projit B.
Mukharji, Martin Meyerson Assistant
Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies,
History & Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania
|
Madhavi Murty,
Assistant Professor of Feminist
Studies, University
of California,
Santa
Cruz
Vijaya
Nagarajan, Associate Professor of
Theology & Religious Studies,
Program in Environmental Studies, University
of San
Francisco
|
Gyanendra
Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished
Professor of History, Emory University
|
Carla
Petievich, Visiting Professor of South
Asian Studies, University
of Texas,
Austin
|
Sheldon
Pollock, Professor of South Asian
Studies, Columbia University
|
Kavita Philip,
Associate Professor of History, University of
California,
Irvine
|
Vijay Prashad,
George and Martha Kellner Chair of
South Asian History, Trinity College
|
Jasbir K.
Puar, Associate Professor of Women's
and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
|
Balakrishnan
Rajagopal, Professor of Law and
Development, Department of Urban
Studies and Planning, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
|
R.
Radhakrishnan, Chancellor's Professor
of English and Comparative Literature, University of
California,
Irvine
|
Gloria Raheja,
Professor of Anthropology, University
of Minnesota
|
Junaid Rana,
Associate Professor of Asian American
Studies, University of
Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana
|
Anupama Rao,
Professor of Anthropology, Barnard
College
|
Velcheru
Narayana Rao, Distinguished Visiting
Professor of Middle Eastern and South
Asian Studies, Emory University
|
Kasturi Ray,
Associate Professor of Women and Gender
Studies/Co-Director, South Asian
Studies, San Francisco
State
University
|
M.V. Ramana,
Program on Science and Global Security,
Princeton University
|
Sumathi
Ramaswamy, Professor of History, Duke
University
|
Chandan Reddy,
Associate Professor of English, University of
Washington,
Seattle
|
Gayatri
Reddy, Associate Professor of Women’s
Studies, University
of Illinois,
Chicago
|
Parama Roy,
Professor of English, University of
California,
Davis
|
Sharmila
Rudrappa, Associate Professor of
Sociology, University
of Texas
at Austin
|
G.S. Sahota,
Assistant Professor of Literature, University of
California,
Santa
Cruz
|
Yasmin Saikia,
Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies
& Professor of History, Center for
the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona
State
University
|
Arun Saldanha,
Associate Professor of Geography,
Environment and Society
University
of Minnesota
|
Juned Shaikh,
Assistant Professor of History, University of
California,
Santa
Cruz
|
Nitasha Tamar
Sharma, Charles Deering McCormick
Professor of Teaching Excellence and
Associate Professor of African American
Studies and Asian American Studies,
Northwestern University
|
Elora
Shehabuddin, Associate Professor of
Humanities and Political Science, Rice
University
|
Bhaskar
Sarkar, Associate Professor of Film and
Media Studies, University
of California,
Santa
Barbara
|
Priya Satia,
Associate Professor of History, Stanford
University
|
Aradhana
Sharma, Associate Professor of
Anthropology, Wesleyan University
|
Snehal
Shinghavi, Associate Professor of
English and South Asian Studies,
University of Texas,
Austin
|
Ajay Skaria,
Professor of History, University of Minnesota
|
Shalini
Shankar, Chair and Associate Professor
of Asian American Studies, Northwestern
University
|
S. Shankar,
Professor of English, University of
Hawai'i
at Mānoa
|
Amritjit Singh,
Langston Hughes Professor of English, Ohio
University
Mytheli
Sreenivas, Associate Professor of
History and Women's, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University
|
Rajini
Srikanth, Professor, English, University of
Massachusetts
Boston
|
Nidhi Srinivas,
Associate Professor of Nonprofit
Management, The New School
|
Ajantha
Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology
and South Asian Studies, Harvard
University
|
Banu
Subramaniam, Professor, Women, Gender,
Sexuality Studies, University of
Massachusetts,
Amherst
|
Kaushik Sunder
Rajan, Associate Professor of
Anthropology, University of Chicago
|
Raja Swamy,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
University of Tennessee
|
Tariq Thachil,
Assistant Professor of Political
Science, Yale University
|
Ashwini Tambe,
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies,
University of
Maryland,
College-Park
|
|
Meena Alexander,
Distinguished Professor of English, Hunter
College and the Graduate Center,
City University
of New York
|
Arjun Appadurai, Paulette
Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
|
Anjali Arondekar,
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz
|
Fredrick Asher,
Professor of Art History and South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota
|
Paola Bacchetta,
Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies University
of California, Berkeley
|
Sarada Balagopalan,
Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers
University, Camden
|
Radhika Balakrishnan,
Prof of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
|
Shahzad Bashir, Professor
of Religious Studies, Stanford
University
|
Manu Bhagavan,
Professor of History and Human Rights, Hunter College and the
Graduate Center, The City University of New York
|
Mona Bhan
Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology DePauw
University
|
Srimati Basu,
Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Prashant Bharadwaj, Associate Professor
of Economics, University
of California, San Diego
|
Nilanjana
Bhattacharjya, Faculty Fellow, Barrett Honors College, Arizona
State University
|
Nandini
Bhattacharya, Professor of English, Texas A
&M University,
College-Station
|
Tithi
Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of South Asian History, Purdue University
|
Amit R.
Baishya, Assistant Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
|
Akeel Bilgrami,
Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and Director,
South Asian Institute, Columbia University
|
Purnima
Bose, Associate Professor, English and International
Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington
|
Christopher
Candland, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wellesley
College
|
Paula
Chakravartty, Associate Professor, Gallatin School, &
Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York
University
|
Shefali
Chandra, Associate Professor of South
Asian History Washington
University, St. Louis
|
S.
Charusheela, Associate Professor, School of
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington,
Bothell
|
Partha
Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian
Studies, Columbia
University
|
Indrani
Chatterjee Professor of History and South Asian
Studies, University
of Texas, Austin
|
Swati
Chattopadhyay Professor History of Art and
Architecture, University
of California,
Santa
Barbara
|
Marty
Chen, School
of Public Policy,
Harvard Kennedy School and Affiliated
Professor, Harvard Graduate School of
Design
Rohit
Chopra, Associate Professor of Communication, Santa Clara
University
|
Elora
Chowdhury Associate Professor & Chair, Women’s
and Gender Studies, University
of Massachusetts,
Boston
|
E. Valentine Daniel,
Professor of Anthropology, Colombia
University
|
Monisha
Das Gupta, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies
and Women’s Studies, University of Hawaii,
Manoa
|
Jigna
Desai, Professor of Gender, Women, and
Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
|
Pawan
Dhingra, Professor of Sociology, Tufts
University
|
Wendy
Doniger, Professor of the History of
Religions, University of Chicago
|
Richard Falk, Professor of
International Law Emeritus, Princeton
University
|
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English University of California,
Santa Barbara
|
Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, Professor and
Chair of Women's Studies, San
Diego State University
|
Durba Ghosh, Associate Professor
of History, Cornell University
|
Sumanth Gopinath, Associate
Professor of Music Theory, School of Music, University
of Minnesota
|
Nitin Govil,
Associate Professor of Cinema &
Media Studies, University of
Southern
California
|
Paul
Greenough, Professor of History and
Community and Behavioral Health and
Director, South Asian Studies Program, University
of Iowa
|
Inderpal
Grewal, Professor of South Asian
Studies, Yale University
|
Sumit Guha, Frances
Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor
of History, University
of Texas,
Austin
|
Thomas Blom
Hansen, Professor of Anthropology and
Director of the Center for South Asia, Stanford
University
|
Syed Akbar
Hyder, Associate Professor of South
Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin
|
Nalini Iyer,
Professor of English, Seattle University
|
Priya
Jaikumar, Associate Professor of Cinema
and Media Studies, University of
Southern
California
|
Pranav
Jani, Associate Professor of English, Ohio
State
University
Sheila
Jasanoff, Professor of Science and
Technology Studies, Harvard University, John
F.
Kennedy
School
of Government
|
Arun W. Jones,
Associate Professor, Candler School of Theology, Emory
University
|
May Joseph,
Professor of Social Science, Pratt
Institute
|
Priya Joshi,
Associate Professor of English and
Associate Director, Center for the
Humanities, Temple University
|
Sampath
Kannan, Henry Salvatore Professor of
Computer and Information Science, University
of Pennsylvania
|
Suvir Kaul,
A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English,
University of Pennsylvania
|
Waqas Khwaja,
Professor of English, Agnes Scott College
|
Naveeda Khan,
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Johns
Hopkins
University
|
Nyla Ali Khan,
Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies,
University of Oklahoma,
Norman
|
Satish
Kolluri, Associate Professor of
Communications, Pace University
|
Ruby Lal,
Professor of Middle East and South
Asian Studies, Emory University
|
Sarah Lamb,
Professor of Anthropology and Head of
the Division of Social Sciences, Brandeis
University;
Co-Chair of South Asian Studies
|
Karen Leonard,
Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, University of
California,
Irvine
|
David
Lelyveld, Professor of History,
Emeritus, William Paterson University
|
Jinee
Lokaneeta, Associate Professor of
Political Science and International
Relations, Drew University
|
Ania Loomba,
Catherine Bryson Professor of English,
University of Pennsylvania
|
David Ludden,
Professor of History, New York University
|
Ritty
Lukose, Associate Professor of
Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality
tudies,
and South Asian Studies, the Gallatin
School, New York University
|
Sudhir
Mahadevan Assistant Professor of Film
Studies, Comparative Literature, Cinema
and Media, University
of Washington,
Seattle
|
Tayyab Mahmud,
Professor of Law and Director,
Center for Global Justice Seattle University School
of Law
|
Sunaina Maira,
Professor of Asian American Studies, University of
California,
Davis
|
Bakirathi
Mani, Associate Professor of English
Literature, Swarthmore College
|
Rebecca J.
Manring, Associate Professor of India
Studies and Religious Studies Indiana
University-Bloomington
|
Monika Mehta,
Associate Professor, Department of
English, Binghamton University
|
Jisha Menon,
Assistant Professor of Theatre and
Performance Studies, Stanford University
|
Kalyani Devaki
Menon, Associate Professor of Religious
Studies, DePaul University
|
Sally Engle
Merry, Silver Professor of
Anthropology, New York University
|
Raza Mir,
Professor of Management, Cotsakos College of Business, William
Paterson
University
|
Deepti Misri,
Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies University of
Colorado,
Boulder
|
Chandra
Talpade Mohanty, Chair and
Distinguished Professor of Women's
& Gender Studies, and Dean's
Professor of Humanities, Syracuse
University
|
Satya P.
Mohanty, Professor of English, Cornell
University
|
Megan Moodie,
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of
California,
Santa
Cruz
|
Projit B.
Mukharji, Martin Meyerson Assistant
Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies,
History & Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania
|
Madhavi Murty,
Assistant Professor of Feminist
Studies, University
of California,
Santa
Cruz
Vijaya
Nagarajan, Associate Professor of
Theology & Religious Studies,
Program in Environmental Studies, University
of San
Francisco
|
Gyanendra
Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished
Professor of History, Emory University
|
Carla
Petievich, Visiting Professor of South
Asian Studies, University
of Texas,
Austin
|
Sheldon
Pollock, Professor of South Asian
Studies, Columbia University
|
Kavita Philip,
Associate Professor of History, University of
California,
Irvine
|
Vijay Prashad,
George and Martha Kellner Chair of
South Asian History, Trinity College
|
Jasbir K.
Puar, Associate Professor of Women's
and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
|
Balakrishnan
Rajagopal, Professor of Law and
Development, Department of Urban
Studies and Planning, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
|
R.
Radhakrishnan, Chancellor's Professor
of English and Comparative Literature, University of
California,
Irvine
|
Gloria Raheja,
Professor of Anthropology, University
of Minnesota
|
Junaid Rana,
Associate Professor of Asian American
Studies, University of
Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana
|
Anupama Rao,
Professor of Anthropology, Barnard
College
|
Velcheru
Narayana Rao, Distinguished Visiting
Professor of Middle Eastern and South
Asian Studies, Emory University
|
Kasturi Ray,
Associate Professor of Women and Gender
Studies/Co-Director, South Asian
Studies, San Francisco
State
University
|
M.V. Ramana,
Program on Science and Global Security,
Princeton University
|
Sumathi
Ramaswamy, Professor of History, Duke
University
|
Chandan Reddy,
Associate Professor of English, University of
Washington,
Seattle
|
Gayatri
Reddy, Associate Professor of Women’s
Studies, University
of Illinois,
Chicago
|
Parama Roy,
Professor of English, University of
California,
Davis
|
Sharmila
Rudrappa, Associate Professor of
Sociology, University
of Texas
at Austin
|
G.S. Sahota,
Assistant Professor of Literature, University of
California,
Santa
Cruz
|
Yasmin Saikia,
Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies
& Professor of History, Center for
the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona
State
University
|
Arun Saldanha,
Associate Professor of Geography,
Environment and Society
University
of Minnesota
|
Juned Shaikh,
Assistant Professor of History, University of
California,
Santa
Cruz
|
Nitasha Tamar
Sharma, Charles Deering McCormick
Professor of Teaching Excellence and
Associate Professor of African American
Studies and Asian American Studies,
Northwestern University
|
Elora
Shehabuddin, Associate Professor of
Humanities and Political Science, Rice
University
|
Bhaskar
Sarkar, Associate Professor of Film and
Media Studies, University
of California,
Santa
Barbara
|
Priya Satia,
Associate Professor of History, Stanford
University
|
Aradhana
Sharma, Associate Professor of
Anthropology, Wesleyan University
|
Snehal
Shinghavi, Associate Professor of
English and South Asian Studies,
University of Texas,
Austin
|
Ajay Skaria,
Professor of History, University of Minnesota
|
Shalini
Shankar, Chair and Associate Professor
of Asian American Studies, Northwestern
University
|
S. Shankar,
Professor of English, University of
Hawai'i
at Mānoa
|
Amritjit Singh,
Langston Hughes Professor of English, Ohio
University
Mytheli
Sreenivas, Associate Professor of
History and Women's, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University
|
Rajini
Srikanth, Professor, English, University of
Massachusetts
Boston
|
Nidhi Srinivas,
Associate Professor of Nonprofit
Management, The New School
|
Ajantha
Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology
and South Asian Studies, Harvard
University
|
Banu
Subramaniam, Professor, Women, Gender,
Sexuality Studies, University of
Massachusetts,
Amherst
|
Kaushik Sunder
Rajan, Associate Professor of
Anthropology, University of Chicago
|
Raja Swamy,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
University of Tennessee
|
Tariq Thachil,
Assistant Professor of Political
Science, Yale University
|
Ashwini Tambe,
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies,
University of
Maryland,
College-Park
|
|
Meena Alexander,
Distinguished Professor of English, Hunter
College and the Graduate Center,
City University
of New York
|
Arjun Appadurai, Paulette
Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
|
Anjali Arondekar,
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz
|
Fredrick Asher,
Professor of Art History and South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota
|
Paola Bacchetta,
Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies University
of California, Berkeley
|
Sarada Balagopalan,
Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers
University, Camden
|
Radhika Balakrishnan,
Prof of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
|
Shahzad Bashir, Professor
of Religious Studies, Stanford
University
|
Manu Bhagavan,
Professor of History and Human Rights, Hunter College and the
Graduate Center, The City University of New York
|
Mona Bhan
Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology DePauw
University
|
Srimati Basu,
Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky
Prashant Bharadwaj, Associate Professor
of Economics, University
of California, San Diego
|
Nilanjana
Bhattacharjya, Faculty Fellow, Barrett Honors College, Arizona
State University
|
Nandini
Bhattacharya, Professor of English, Texas A
&M University,
College-Station
|
Tithi
Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of South Asian History, Purdue University
|
Amit R.
Baishya, Assistant Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
|
Akeel Bilgrami,
Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and Director,
South Asian Institute, Columbia University
|
Purnima
Bose, Associate Professor, English and International
Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington
|
Christopher
Candland, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wellesley
College
|
Paula
Chakravartty, Associate Professor, Gallatin School, &
Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York
University
|
Shefali
Chandra, Associate Professor of South
Asian History Washington
University, St. Louis
|
S.
Charusheela, Associate Professor, School of
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington,
Bothell
|
Partha
Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian
Studies, Columbia
University
|
Indrani
Chatterjee Professor of History and South Asian
Studies, University
of Texas, Austin
|
Swati
Chattopadhyay Professor History of Art and
Architecture, University
of California,
Santa
Barbara
|
Marty
Chen, School
of Public Policy,
Harvard Kennedy School and Affiliated
Professor, Harvard Graduate School of
Design
Rohit
Chopra, Associate Professor of Communication, Santa Clara
University
|
Elora
Chowdhury Associate Professor & Chair, Women’s
and Gender Studies, University
of Massachusetts,
Boston
|
E. Valentine Daniel,
Professor of Anthropology, Colombia
University
|
Monisha
Das Gupta, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies
and Women’s Studies, University of Hawaii,
Manoa
|
Jigna
Desai, Professor of Gender, Women, and
Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
|
Pawan
Dhingra, Professor of Sociology, Tufts
University
|
Wendy
Doniger, Professor of the History of
Religions, University of Chicago
|
Richard Falk, Professor of
International Law Emeritus, Princeton
University
|
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English University of California,
Santa Barbara
|
Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, Professor and
Chair of Women's Studies, San
Diego State University
|
Durba Ghosh, Associate Professor
of History, Cornell University
|
Sumanth Gopinath, Associate
Professor of Music Theory, School of Music, University
of Minnesota
|
Nitin Govil,
Associate Professor of Cinema &
Media Studies, University of
Southern
California
|
Paul
Greenough, Professor of History and
Community and Behavioral Health and
Director, South Asian Studies Program, University
of Iowa
|
Inderpal
Grewal, Professor of South Asian
Studies, Yale University
|
Sumit Guha, Frances
Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor
of History, University
of Texas,
Austin
|
Thomas Blom
Hansen, Professor of Anthropology and
Director of the Center for South Asia, Stanford
University
|
Syed Akbar
Hyder, Associate Professor of South
Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin
|
Nalini Iyer,
Professor of English, Seattle University
|
Priya
Jaikumar, Associate Professor of Cinema
and Media Studies, University of
Southern
California
|
Pranav
Jani, Associate Professor of English, Ohio
State
University
Sheila
Jasanoff, Professor of Science and
Technology Studies, Harvard University, John
F.
Kennedy
School
of Government
|
Arun W. Jones,
Associate Professor, Candler School of Theology, Emory
University
|
May Joseph,
Professor of Social Science, Pratt
Institute
|
Priya Joshi,
Associate Professor of English and
Associate Director, Center for the
Humanities, Temple University
|
Sampath
Kannan, Henry Salvatore Professor of
Computer and Information Science, University
of Pennsylvania
|
Suvir Kaul,
A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English,
University of Pennsylvania
|
Waqas Khwaja,
Professor of English, Agnes Scott College
|
Naveeda Khan,
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Johns
Hopkins
University
|
Nyla Ali Khan,
Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies,
University of Oklahoma,
Norman
|
Satish
Kolluri, Associate Professor of
Communications, Pace University
|
Ruby Lal,
Professor of Middle East and South
Asian Studies, Emory University
|
Sarah Lamb,
Professor of Anthropology and Head of
the Division of Social Sciences, Brandeis
University;
Co-Chair of South Asian Studies
|
Karen Leonard,
Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, University of
California,
Irvine
|
David
Lelyveld, Professor of History,
Emeritus, William Paterson University
|
Jinee
Lokaneeta, Associate Professor of
Political Science and International
Relations, Drew University
|
Ania Loomba,
Catherine Bryson Professor of English,
University of Pennsylvania
|
David Ludden,
Professor of History, New York University
|
Ritty
Lukose, Associate Professor of
Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality
tudies,
and South Asian Studies, the Gallatin
School, New York University
|
Sudhir
Mahadevan Assistant Professor of Film
Studies, Comparative Literature, Cinema
and Media, University
of Washington,
Seattle
|
Tayyab Mahmud,
Professor of Law and Director,
Center for Global Justice Seattle University School
of Law
|
Sunaina Maira,
Professor of Asian American Studies, University of
California,
Davis
|
Bakirathi
Mani, Associate Professor of English
Literature, Swarthmore College
|
Rebecca J.
Manring, Associate Professor of India
Studies and Religious Studies Indiana
University-Bloomington
|
Monika Mehta,
Associate Professor, Department of
English, Binghamton University
|
Jisha Menon,
Assistant Professor of Theatre and
Performance Studies, Stanford University
|
Kalyani Devaki
Menon, Associate Professor of Religious
Studies, DePaul University
|
Sally Engle
Merry, Silver Professor of
Anthropology, New York University
|
Raza Mir,
Professor of Management, Cotsakos College of Business, William
Paterson
University
|
Deepti Misri,
Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies University of
Colorado,
Boulder
|
Chandra
Talpade Mohanty, Chair and
Distinguished Professor of Women's
& Gender Studies, and Dean's
Professor of Humanities, Syracuse
University
|
Satya P.
Mohanty, Professor of English, Cornell
University
|
Megan Moodie,
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of
California,
Santa
Cruz
|
Projit B.
Mukharji, Martin Meyerson Assistant
Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies,
History & Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania
|
Madhavi Murty,
Assistant Professor of Feminist
Studies, University
of California,
Santa
Cruz
Vijaya
Nagarajan, Associate Professor of
Theology & Religious Studies,
Program in Environmental Studies, University
of San
Francisco
|
Gyanendra
Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished
Professor of History, Emory University
|
Carla
Petievich, Visiting Professor of South
Asian Studies, University
of Texas,
Austin
|
Sheldon
Pollock, Professor of South Asian
Studies, Columbia University
|
Kavita Philip,
Associate Professor of History, University of
California,
Irvine
|
Vijay Prashad,
George and Martha Kellner Chair of
South Asian History, Trinity College
|
Jasbir K.
Puar, Associate Professor of Women's
and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
|
Balakrishnan
Rajagopal, Professor of Law and
Development, Department of Urban
Studies and Planning, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
|
R.
Radhakrishnan, Chancellor's Professor
of English and Comparative Literature, University of
California,
Irvine
|
Gloria Raheja,
Professor of Anthropology, University
of Minnesota
|
Junaid Rana,
Associate Professor of Asian American
Studies, University of
Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana
|
Anupama Rao,
Professor of Anthropology, Barnard
College
|
Velcheru
Narayana Rao, Distinguished Visiting
Professor of Middle Eastern and South
Asian Studies, Emory University
|
Kasturi Ray,
Associate Professor of Women and Gender
Studies/Co-Director, South Asian
Studies, San Francisco
State
University
|
M.V. Ramana,
Program on Science and Global Security,
Princeton University
|
Sumathi
Ramaswamy, Professor of History, Duke
University
|
Chandan Reddy,
Associate Professor of English, University of
Washington,
Seattle
|
Gayatri
Reddy, Associate Professor of Women’s
Studies, University
of Illinois,
Chicago
|
Parama Roy,
Professor of English, University of
California,
Davis
|
Sharmila
Rudrappa, Associate Professor of
Sociology, University
of Texas
at Austin
|
G.S. Sahota,
Assistant Professor of Literature, University of
California,
Santa
Cruz
|
Yasmin Saikia,
Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies
& Professor of History, Center for
the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona
State
University
|
Arun Saldanha,
Associate Professor of Geography,
Environment and Society
University
of Minnesota
|
Juned Shaikh,
Assistant Professor of History, University of
California,
Santa
Cruz
|
Nitasha Tamar
Sharma, Charles Deering McCormick
Professor of Teaching Excellence and
Associate Professor of African American
Studies and Asian American Studies,
Northwestern University
|
Elora
Shehabuddin, Associate Professor of
Humanities and Political Science, Rice
University
|
Bhaskar
Sarkar, Associate Professor of Film and
Media Studies, University
of California,
Santa
Barbara
|
Priya Satia,
Associate Professor of History, Stanford
University
|
Aradhana
Sharma, Associate Professor of
Anthropology, Wesleyan University
|
Snehal
Shinghavi, Associate Professor of
English and South Asian Studies,
University of Texas,
Austin
|
Ajay Skaria,
Professor of History, University of Minnesota
|
Shalini
Shankar, Chair and Associate Professor
of Asian American Studies, Northwestern
University
|
S. Shankar,
Professor of English, University of
Hawai'i
at Mānoa
|
Amritjit Singh,
Langston Hughes Professor of English, Ohio
University
Mytheli
Sreenivas, Associate Professor of
History and Women's, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University
|
Rajini
Srikanth, Professor, English, University of
Massachusetts
Boston
|
Nidhi Srinivas,
Associate Professor of Nonprofit
Management, The New School
|
Ajantha
Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology
and South Asian Studies, Harvard
University
|
Banu
Subramaniam, Professor, Women, Gender,
Sexuality Studies, University of
Massachusetts,
Amherst
|
Kaushik Sunder
Rajan, Associate Professor of
Anthropology, University of Chicago
|
Raja Swamy,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
University of Tennessee
|
Tariq Thachil,
Assistant Professor of Political
Science, Yale University
|
Ashwini Tambe,
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies,
University of
Maryland,
College-Park
|
|