Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Arizona State University offers several South Asian courses in various departments: music, art history and religious studies. Countries which fall under South Asian Studies include India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Afghanistan.

ASU Faculty Committee on South Asian Studies

Anne Feldhaus, Committee Chair and Professor, Religious Studies (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania); Religion in South Asia; Hinduism; religious geography and pilgrimage; Marathi language and literature

Julie Codell, Professor, School of Art (Ph.D., Indiana University); India in the 19th and 20th centuries; impact of India on British culture

David Damrel, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies (Ph.D., Duke University, 1991); Islam and Islamic mysticism; Muslim sacred sites in India

Hemalata Dandekar, Director, School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles); urban planning, migration, housing, women, and development

B. L. Ramakrishna, Associate Professor, Center for Solid State Science (Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras); science education and outreach; additional interests in Sanskrit language and literature

Ted Solis, Professor, School of Music (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Ethnomusicology; Asian music, particularly Indian classical music and Javanese gamelan

Other ASU Faculty with South Asian interests and expertise

Prasad Boradkar, Assistant Professor, School of Design

Joyotpaul Chaudhuri, Professor, Political Science

Manjira Datta, Associate Professor, Economics

Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Associate Professor, School of Planning and Landscape Architecture

Nemi C. Jain, Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication

Stephen R. MacKinnon, Professor, History

Mookesh Patel, Associate Professor, School of Design

Asim Roy, Professor, Accountancy and Information Management

Henry L. Schoebel, Professor, School of Art

Nora Taylor, Assistant Professor, Humanities and Art History

Alvappillai Veluppillai, Visiting Professor, Religious Studies

 

 

 
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