Dr. Yuko Nikaido (more about)

Faculty of Economics, Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
Area of research:
Development Economics, Indian Economy

Dr. Mark Betz (more about)

Lecturer in Film Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, King’s College, London. Area of research: Contemporary Indian Cinema Cultures

Professor Tess Onwueme (more about 1), 2

Professor of Cultural Diversity, University of Winconsin – Eau Claire, USA.

Dr. Ruhi Saith (more about)

Visiting Senior Scientist, Deptt. of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK
Area of research:
Public Health and Development

Dr. Johannes Quack

Post-doctoral Fellow, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, INF 330, Room 503, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Area of research:
Rationalist/Humanist/Atheist Movements in India

Dr. Natasa Miskovic

Department of History, Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland.
Area of research:
Tito, Nehru, Nasser, and the Non-Aligned Movement

Prof. Anne-Marie Thiesse

Professor and Director, National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris, France.
Area of research:
Imagining Unity through Diversity: Current Representations of the European Union and of India

Dr. Thomas Ertl

Senior Lecturer at the Friedrich-Meineche-Institute of Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Area of research:
The Comparison of silk production and consumption in Europe and India

Dr. Tinu Ruparell

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, USA.
Area of research:
Locating Comparative Philosophy of Religion

Prof. Astrid Zei

Adjunct Professor for Comparative Public Law, University of Rome, Italy. Area of research: Comparative Constitutional Law and Comparative Public Law

Prof. Allen Minton

Senior Investigator and Chief, Section on Physical Biochemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, USA.
Area of research:
Self- and hetero-association and aggregation of biological macro-molecules, and relation to function

Prof. Janelle Reinelt

Professor Theatre and Performance, University of Warwick, UK.
Area of research:
Contemporary Drama

Dr. Peter Ernds

Director of Comparative Literature and Literary Translation, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland,
Area of research:
Cultural Memory in Novels of Mythical Realism: India, Germany, and Beyond

Prof. Bobby Banerjee

Professor of Management and Associate Dean of Research, College of Business and Law, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Area of research:
Corporate and Institutional Climate Change Strategies in India and China

Dr. SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda

Associate Professor, Bandarnaike Centre of International Studies, 8/1, Liyanage Mawatha, Nawale Road, Nawala, Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka.
Area of research:
Medieval South India and Sri Lanka. The Intermingling of Hinduism and Buddhism

Professor Issa Gulamhussein Shivji (more about)

Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Professor in Pan-African Studies, and former Head, Department of Constitution and Administration Law, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Area of Research:
Political Economy of the Agrarian Question

Prof. Roy M. McLeod (more about)

University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Area of research:
History and Philosophy of Science

Professor Paul Greenough (more about)

Professor of History and of Community Behavioral Health, University of Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Area of Research:
Social, political and economic responses to South Asian natural disasters since 1900

Professor Rajani K. Kanth (more about)

Harvard University, USA
Area of research:
International Political Economy, Globalization, Development, and Comparative Economics

Dr. Evangelos Venetis

TCMO Institute, University of Leiden, Netherlands.
Area of research:
Greeco-Iranian Studies; Medieval Persian Literature

Dr. Fabrizio Speziale (more about)

Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Heidelberg,
Heidelberg, Germany.
Area of research:
  Social and Historical Anthropology
The List of scholars who joined from January 2009 onwards.

Dr. Pritam Singh (more about)

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Area of research: Political Economy of Human Rights in a Globalizing World: India and Punjab

Dr. Meera Nanda (more about)

Research Fellow in Religion and Science, John Templeton Foundation, USA Area of research: Science, Post-Modernism and Culture

January 2009

Dr. Matthew McCartney (more about)

Department of Economics, University of London, UK
Area of Research: Microeconomics. International Trade

Professor M. Zannetti (more about)

Professor of Plasma Physics, The University of Salerno, Italy
Area of research: Various Aspects of Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics

Professor Elvira Carvajal

Department of Cellular Biology and Genetics, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Area of Research:  Genetic and Molecular Biology of Microorganisms

Professor Christopher John De Wet (more about)

Professor and Head, Department of Anthropology
Rhodes University, South Africa
Area of Research: Anthropology, Geography, refugee and resettlement studies

Professor David Weberman(more about)

Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Area of Research: 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Hermeneutics, Aesthetics

Professor Allaine Cerwonka (more about)

Head, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Area of Research: Intimate Globalizations: Negotiating Belonging and Privilege through the International Trade in Human Eggs

Professor Olutayo Charles Adesina (more about)


Department of History, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Area of research: Profits and Power: Anatomy of Indian Entrepreneurship in Nigeria, 1900-2008)

Dr. Michael Dusche (more about)

Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Erfurt, Germany
Area of Research:  Perceptions of Threat: Europe and the Muslim World

Dr. Helen Susanna Lambert (more about)

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
Area of research: Social and Cultural Influence on Health

Prof. Veneeta Dayal (more about)

Acting Dean of Humanities, and Professor of Linguistics,Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Area of research: Semantic Theory, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Hindi/South Indian Linguistics, Cognitive Science)

Prof. Marta Dvorak (more about)

Paris University, France
Area of research: Re-situating modernism, a founding axis of cultural globalization

Prof. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (more about)

University of Rome, Italy
Area of research:
Monetary Standards and Exchange Rates)

Dr. Tadd Fernee

Research Scholar, 37 Rue Arthur Rozier, Paris, France
Area of research:
  Comparative Study of the Political Legacy of the Enlightenment

Dr. Johannes Dillinger

Department of History, Trier University, Trier, Germany
Area of Research: Early Modern European Cultural and Political History, Witch-hunting, Rise of the Peasantry etc.

January 2008

Professor Govindjee

Department of Biophysics,Photosynthesis University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Area of Research: Biophysics; Photosynthesis

Professor Christine Ann Gledhill (more about)

School of Arts, Design, Media Culture, University of Sundarland, UK
Area of Research: Cinema Culture

Professor Safronova Alexandra Lvovna

Head, Department of South Asian History, Moscow State University Moscow, Russia
Area of Research: South Asian and African History

Dr. Norbert Schurer (more about)

Department of English, California State University, California, USA
Area of Research: Literature and Social History, Anglo-Indian Relations

Professor Edgar Bauer Duffoo

Philosophy and History of Religion, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Area of Research: Culture Studies. Psyche Analysis

Professor Philip Oldenburg (more about)

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA
Area of research:
Theories of Political Modernization; State and Bureaucracy in the Third World

Professor Veena Talwar Oldenburg (more about)

Department of History, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA Area of research: Urban History and Gender and Cultural History

Dr. Vasileois Syros

University of Helsinki, Finland
Area of Research: Political Philosophy and History of Religion, Impact of Greek Political Thought on Medieval and early Modern India 13-16 Century

Professor Christine Chojnacki

Professor of Indian Languages and Cultures, University of Lyon, France Area of Research: Classical languages and literature, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Prakrit, etc

Dr. Michael Alram

Vice-Director of the Coin Cabinet of the Kunsthistorisches Vienna and Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria

October 2008

Professor Brinsley Samaroo (more about)

Faculty of Humanities and Education, The University of the West Indies,
St. Augustine ,Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
Area of research: Migration and Diaspora studies

Professor Ari Sitas (more about)

Chair of Industrial, Organisational and Labour Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Writer, civic activist and policy adviser he served as vice-president of the International Sociological Association.
Area of research: Industrial Sociology focusing on labour, politics and culture within the parameters of the new global economy.
Fellows at the JNIAS who joined before January 2008

Dr. Paul Fletcher

Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

2006

Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067

Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067

 
List of Scholars Invited to JNIAS
Joined In
Fellows at the JNIAS who joined before January 2008

Dr. Paul Fletcher

Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

2006

Dr. Carolyn Penfold (more about)

Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

June 2007

Fellows who joined in January 2008

Dr. Johannes Dillinger (more about)

Department of History, Trier University, Trier, Germany
Area of Research:Early Modern European Cultural and Political History, Witch-hunting, Rise of the Peasantry etc.

January 2008

Professor Govindjee (more about)

Department of Biophysics,Photosynthesis University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Area of Research:Biophysics; Photosynthesis

January 2008

Professor Gail Olivia Pearson (more about)

Head, Faculty of Economics Business Law University of Sydney, Australia
Area of Research: Commercial Law, Goods Law, Unfair practices, Financial Services and Credit Law.

January 2008

Dr. Daud Robert Ali (more about)

School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK
Area of Research: Medieval History of South Asia

January 2008

Professor Christine Ann Gledhill (more about)

School of Arts, Design, Media Culture, University of Sundarland, UK
Area of Research:Cinema Culture

January 2008

Professor Safronova Alexandra Lvovna (more about)

Head, Department of South Asian History, Moscow State University Moscow, Russia
Area of Research:South Asian and African History

January 2008

Dr. Norbert Schurer (more about)

Department of English, California State University, California, USA
Area of Research:Literature and Social History, Anglo-Indian Relations

January 2008

Professor Edgar Bauer Duffoo (more about)

Philosophy and History of Religion, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Area of Research:Culture Studies. Psyche Analysis

February 2008

Professor David Lockwood (more about)

Head, Department of History, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Area of Research:Soviet History, Contemporary Russia

February 2008

Professor Dafydd Gibbon (more about)

Department of English & Linguistics, University of Bielefed, Germany
Area of Research:Computational Linguistics

March 2008

Professor Laurent Pordie (more about)

Director, Department of Social Sciences, French Institute of Pondicherry Pondicherry, India
Area of Research:Anthropology and Ethno-Pharmacology

April 2008

Professor Philip Oldenburg (more about)

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA
Area of research:Theories of Political Modernization; State and Bureaucracy in the Third World

July 2008

Professor Veena Talwar Oldenburg (more about)

Department of History, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA Area of research: Urban History and Gender and Cultural History

July 2008

Professor Richard William Allen (more about)

Professor & Chair of Cinema Studies, New York University, USA
Area of research:Philosophy of Film, Films of Alfred Hitchcock and Hindi Cinema

July 2008

Dr. Vasileois Syros (more about)

University of Helsinki, Finland
Area of Research: Political Philosophy and History of Religion, Impact of Greek Political Thought on Medieval and early Modern India 13-16 Century

July 2008

Professor Christine Chojnacki (more about)

Professor of Indian Languages and Cultures, University of Lyon, France Area of Research:Classical languages and literature, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Prakrit, etc

July 2008

Professor Deborah Klimburg-Salter (more about)

Professor of Asian Art History, University of Vienna, Austria

October 2008

Dr. Michael Alram (more about)

Vice-Director of the Coin Cabinet of the Kunsthistorisches Vienna and Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria

October 2008

Dr. Nikolaus Schindel (more about)

Teacher at the Institute for Numismatics and Monetary History, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

October 2008

Dr. Klaus Vondrovec (more about)

Researcher and Lecturer, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

October 2008

Dr. Verena Widorn (more about)

University Assistant, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

October 2008

Sean McAllister (more about)

Lead Developer for the WHAV Digital Image Archive and Member of the Secure Systems Lab at TU Wien.Vienna, Austria

October 2008

Professor Brinsley Samaroo (more about)

Faculty of Humanities and Education, The University of the West Indies,
St. Augustine ,Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
Area of research:Migration and Diaspora studies

November 2008

Professor Ari Sitas (more about)

Chair of Industrial, Organisational and Labour Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Writer, civic activist and policy adviser he served as vice-president of the International Sociological Association.
Area of research:Industrial Sociology focusing on labour, politics and culture within the parameters of the new global economy.

November 2008

The List of scholars who joined from January 2009 onwards.

Dr. Pritam Singh (more about)

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Area of research: Political Economy of Human Rights in a Globalizing World: India and Punjab

January 2009

Dr. Meera Nanda (more about)

Research Fellow in Religion and Science, John Templeton Foundation, USA Area of research: Science, Post-Modernism and Culture

January 2009

Dr. Matthew McCartney (more about)

Department of Economics, University of London, UK
Area of Research: Microeconomics. International Trade

January 2009

Professor M. Zannetti (more about)

Professor of Plasma Physics, The University of Salerno, Italy
Area of research: Various Aspects of Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics

January 2009

Professor Elvira Carvajal (more about)

Department of Cellular Biology and Genetics, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Area of Research:Genetic and Molecular Biology of Microorganisms

January 2009

Professor Adrienne L. Kaeppler (more about)

Social/Cultural Anthroplogist and Curator of Oceanic Ethnology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
Area of Research: Material Culture and the Visual and Performing Arts in their Cultural Contexts

January 2009

Professor Christopher John De Wet (more about)

Professor and Head, Department of Anthropology
Rhodes University, South Africa
Area of Research:Anthropology, Geography, refugee and resettlement studies

January 2009

Dr. Basile Leclere (more about)

French, Latin and Theatre Teacher, Lycee Charlie, Decines, France.
Area of research:Indian Languages and Literature

January 2009

Professor Robert Douglas Jessop (more about)

Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University, England
Areas of Research:Cultural Political Economy, Political Economy of Scale, Social and Political Theory

February 2009

Dr. Ngai-Ling Sum (more about)

Programme Director on Globalization and Information Age, Lancaster University, England
Area of Research:Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions

February 2009

Professor Charles Merewether (more about)

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Australia
Chairman, Advisory Board, Hong Kong International Art Fair.
Area of Research:Art History and Comparative Literature

March 2009

Professor David Weberman(more about)

Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Area of Research:19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Hermeneutics, Aesthetics

March 2009

Professor Allaine Cerwonka (more about)

Head, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Area of Research:Intimate Globalizations: Negotiating Belonging and Privilege through the International Trade in Human Eggs

March 2009

Professor Olutayo Charles Adesina (more about)


Department of History, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Area of research:Profits and Power: Anatomy of Indian Entrepreneurship in Nigeria, 1900-2008

June 2009

Professor Stephen Borbley (more about)

Department of Universal and Comparative Lit. The Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Area of research:Comparative Literature, Mythology, The History of Mentalities, Literary Criticism, and Political Psychology

July 2009

Dr. Antti Ruotsala (more about)

University Lecturer, General History, Department of History, University of Helsinki, Finland
Area of Research:Encounters between European and Mongols in the middle of 13th Century

July 2009

Professor Jean Boutier (more about)

Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Head of the Centre for Social Sciences, Marseille, France
Area of Research:Comparative Social History of Early Modern Europe

July 2009

Dr. Michael Dusche (more about)

Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Erfurt, Germany
Area of Research:Perceptions of Threat: Europe and the Muslim World

July 2009

Dr. Jozsef Borocz (more about)

Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, USA
Area of research:The European Union and Global Social Change

August 2009

Dr. Helen Susanna Lambert (more about)

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
Area of research:Social and Cultural Influence on Health

August 2009

Dr. Dare Clubb (more about)

Associate Professor of Playwriting, Department of Threatre Arts, University of Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Area of Research: Dramaturgy and Criticism

August 2009

Prof. Veneeta Dayal (more about)

Acting Dean of Humanities, and Professor of Linguistics,Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Area of research:Semantic Theory, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Hindi/South Indian Linguistics, Cognitive Science

September 2009

Professor William S. Sax (more about)

Professor Head, Department of Ethnology, and Coordinator, Health Environment, Karl Jaspers Centre, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, Germany.
Area of Research:Relationship between somatization and psychologization in health sciences in India and Europe

September 2009

Prof. Marta Dvorak (more about)

Paris University, France
Area of research: Re-situating modernism, a founding axis of cultural globalization

September 2009

Professor Brian Roger Tomlinson (more about)

Dean, Professor of Economics, School of Oriental African Studies, University of London, UK
Area of Research: Economic History

September 2009

Prof. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (more about)

University of Rome, Italy
Area of research: Monetary Standards and Exchange Rates

November 2009

Dr. Tadd Fernee (more about)

Research Scholar, 37 Rue Arthur Rozier, Paris, France
Area of research:Comparative Study of the Political Legacy of the Enlightenment

December 2009

List of Scholars who joined from January 2010 onwards...

Dr. Sunil Sharma (more about)

Senior Lecturer in Persian, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA
Area of research: Amir Khusrou: Poet of Sultans and Sufis

January 2010


Prof. Hans Henrich Hock (more about)

Professor of Linguistics and Sanskrit, University of Illiois,
Urbana-Champaign, USA
Area of research: General historical and comparative Linguistics
(all areas

February 2010

Prof. Jayati Lal (more about)

University of Michigan, USA.    
Area of research: Economy, Society and Culture in the Era of Globalization

February 2010

Dr. Silke Schicktanz (more about)

University Medical Centre Gottingen, Deptt. for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Gottingen, Germany
Area of research: Biomedical Ethics (specific focus: organ transplantation, genetic Testing, end of life decisions, ageing)

February 2010

Dr. Ruhi Saith (more about)

Visiting Senior Scientist, Deptt. of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK
Area of research: Public Health and Development

February 2010

Prof. Kumaraswamy Velupillai (more about)

Deptt. of Economics, University of Trento, Italy.
Area of research: Aspects of the Structural Dynamics of Capitalist Economies

March 2010

 Dr. Yuko Nikaido (more about)

Faculty of Economics, Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
Area of research: Development Economics, Indian Economy

March 2010

Dr. Proshot Kalami (more about)

Lecturer, Department of English & Drama, Loughborough University,
Loughborough, UK
Area of research: Comparative Literatur

July 2010

Dr. Sudipto Chatterjee (more about)

Senior Lectuer & Subject Leader of Drama, Loughborough University,
Louborough, UK.
Area of research: Indian Popular Theatre: Myths, Masses & Movement

July 2010

Professor Tess Onwueme (more about 1), 2

Professor of Cultural Diversity, University of Winconsin – Eau Claire, USA.

August 2010

Dr. Motti Lerner

Playwright and Screen Writer, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Area of Research: Playwriting, Israeli Threatre, and Israeli Theater and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict)

August 2010

Dr. Margarita Olivera (more about)

Research Fellow, Department of Public Economics, University of Pavia,
Pavia, Italy.
Area of research:  Economic Growth Theory

September 2010

Dr. Andres Lazzarini (more about)

Research Fellow, Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods,
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Area of research: History of Economic Analysis

September 2010

Dr. Utpal Lahiri (more about)

Research Professor, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Area of research: Polarity Sensitivity in Natural Language: Crosslingustic Studies

September 2010

Prof. Peter Alexandar

University of Johannesberg, South Africa
Area of research: Comparative Study of Class and its Relationship to Caste and Race

October 2010

Dr. Gunnel Cederlof (more about)

Department of History, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden       
Area of research: Environmental History of Law

October 2010

Prof. James G. Manor (more about)

University of London, UK
Area of research: The Actions of State Governments In India and Their Implications

November 2010

Dr. Silvia D’Intino (more about)

Researcher in Indology at the CNRS – National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France.
Area of research: Indian Culture (history, philosophy and religion)

November 2010

Prof. Christian Comeliau

Senior Economist, FMSH, Paris, France
Area of research: Global Economy

November 2010

Dr. Mark Betz (more about)

Lecturer in Film Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, King’s College, London. Area of research: Contemporary Indian Cinema Cultures

January 2011

Dr. Natasa Miskovic (more about)

Department of History, Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland.
Area of research: Tito, Nehru, Nasser, and the Non-Aligned Movement

March 2011

Dr. Takahiro Sato (more about)

Associate Professor, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
Area of research: India’s Economic Reforms and India’s Labour Markets

June 2011

Dr. Annu Jalais (more about)

Post-doctoral Fellow, Agrarian Studies Programme, Yale University, 204, Prospect St., New Haven, CT, USA.
Area of research: Anthropological Study of the Sunderbans of West Bengal, India

 

August 2011

Prof. Anne-Marie Thiesse (more about)

Professor and Director, National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris, France.
Area of research: Imagining Unity through Diversity: Current Representations of the European Union and of India

August 2011

Dr. Pushpa Raj Adhikari (more about)

Associate Professor, Central Department of Political Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
Area of research: China and South Asia, International and Regional Politics

August 2011

Prof. Tito Marci (more about)

Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Rome, Italy.
Area of research: Sociology of Law

August 2011

Prof. Astrid Zei (more about)

Adjunct Professor for Comparative Public Law, University of Rome, Italy. Area of research: Comparative Constitutional Law and Comparative Public Law

August 2011

Dr. Tinu Ruparell (more about)

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, USA.
Area of research: Locating Comparative Philosophy of Religion

August 2011

Prof. Richa Nagar

Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Associate Dean for Faculty, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, USA.
Area of research: Working on a proposed Book project – Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India

August 2011

Dr. Deborah Sutton (more about)

Department of History, Lancaster University, UK.
Area of research: The Hindu Temple and Modernity: Devotion, Governance and Aesthetics, 1800-1946

September 2011

Dr. Stephen Legg (more about)

Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
Area of research: Spaces of Anti-Colonialism: Violence, Memory and Nationalism in Delhi, 1924-47

September 2011

Professor, Detlef Briesen (more about)

Department of History, JLU University, Giessen, Germany.
Area of research:  Globalization in Social Sciences

October 2011

Dr. Clarisse Herrenschmidt (more about)

Researcher at CNRS, Paris, France.
Area of research: Languages and Civilization of Ancient Iran

October 2011

Dr. Claire Joubert (more about)

Professor of English Literature, University of Paris, France.
Area of research:Globalising the disciplines

November 2011

Professor Shen Han (more about)

Department of History, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Area of research:  British Parliamentary and Political History

December 2011

Dr. Gyanesh Kudaisya

Associate Professor in South Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore,Singapore.
Area of research: Post-Colonial South Asian History; Partition of South Asia; Regions and Regionalism in India; Post-colonial India

December 2011

Dr. Vibha Srivastava (more about)

Associate Professor of Plant Biotechnology, University of Arkansas, USA. Area of research: Development of precise transformation technologies for genetic engineering of plant genomes

January 2012

Dr. Subhasree Chakravarty (more about)

Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
Area of research:Long-distance Nationalism: Persuasive Invocations of Militant Hinduism in North America

January 2012

Dr. Saikat Majumdar (more about)

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Stanford University, USA.
Area of research:A transnational study of the literary public intellectual

January 2012

Prof. John Perry (more about)

Professor Persian (Emeritus), The University of Chicago, USA.
Area of research:The Evolution, expansion, and cultural diversification of the New Persian Language

January 2012

Prof. Janelle Reinelt (more about)

Professor Theatre and Performance, University of Warwick, UK.
Area of research:Contemporary Drama

January 2012

Prof. Bobby Banerjee (more about)

Professor of Management and Associate Dean of Research, College of Business and Law, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Area of research: Corporate and Institutional Climate Change Strategies in India and China

January 2012

Dr. Tabish Khair

Associate Professor, Department of English, January 2012 University of Aarhus,Denmark
Area of research: Indian English Literature, Postcolonial Literatures and Cultural Studies

January 2012

Prof. Vladimir Boyko (more about)

Professor, Asian Studies, and Director, Centre for Regional Studies, Altai State Pedagogical Academy, Barnaul, Russia.
Area of research:Indian Factgor in Afghanistan’s Domestic and Foreign Policy

February 2012

Dr. Edgardo Bucciarelli (more about)

Researcher in Economics, Department of Quantitative Methods and Economic Theory, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.
Area of research: Complexity of Market Dynamics, Development Economics, Analysis of Economic Thought, Social Economics.

March 2012

Dr. Selma K. Sonntag (more about)

Progressor, Department of Politics, Humboldt State University, Arcata, USA.
Area of research: The Political Economy of Linguistic Diversity in India

March 2012

Professor Rajani K. Kanth (more about)

Harvard University, USA
Area of research: International Political Economy, Globalization, Development, and Comparative Economics

April 2012

Dr. Mohamed Elsayed Fekry Ali (more about)

Fellow, RTFDCS, Govt. of India, CICS, Chennai, India
Area of research:Development of Maize, Cotton and Wheat Genotypes efficient for strained iron and zinc nutrition in calcareous and sandy soil
 

Dr.Renaud Colson (more about)

Associate Professor & Vice-Dean, University of Nantes, Nantes, France. Area of research:EU Criminal Justsice in Comparative Perspective (Council of Europe, European Union, Republic of India, United States)

 

Dr. Rasheed.Oyewole Olaniyi (more about)

Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Area of research:Rethinking Migration and Diaspora Identity in West Africa

 

Dr. Daniel S. Roberts (more about)

School of English, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland, UK.
Area of research:Gender Representations in the Emerging Print Culture of British India

 

Dr. Ravinder Kaur (more about)

Associate Professor & Director, Centre for Global South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Area of research:Design of a Nation: Creating a Global Identity for India

 

Dr. Thomas Ertl (more about)

Senior Lecturer at the Friedrich-Meineche-Institute of Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Area of research:The Comparison of silk production and consumption in Europe and India

 

Dr. Joseph Paul (more about)

Lecturer, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
Area of research: Development and prototyping of new modalities for biomedical imaging application

 

Dr. Andrew Edward Willles Chitty (more about)

Lecturer in Philosophy, Arts B, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK.
Area of research: Freedom and Society in the Thought of Karl Marx

 

Dr. Johannes Quack (more about)

Post-doctoral Fellow, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, INF 330, Room 503, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Area of research: Rationalist/Humanist/Atheist Movements in India

 

Prof. Allen Minton (more about)

Senior Investigator and Chief, Section on Physical Biochemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, USA.
Area of research: Self- and hetero-association and aggregation of biological macro-molecules, and relation to function

 

Dr. Francesca Falk (more about)

University Lecturer at the University of Basel, witzerland.
Area of research:Cultural History of Modern Europe and its Global Contexts

 

Dr. Peter Arnds (more about)

Director of Comparative Literature and Literary Translation, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland,
Area of research: Cultural Memory in Novels of Mythical Realism: India,Germany, and Beyond

 

Prof. Eunan O’Halpin (more about)

Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Area of research: Afghanistan and the Second World War, including Afghan Views on and Territorial Ambitions in India, and Indian Nationalists Views of Afghanistan

 

Mr. Syed Badrul Ahsan (more about)

Editor, Current Affairs, The Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Area of research: Nature and Role of Bengali Political Leadership in pre-Partition India and post-Partition Pakistan/Bangladesh

 

Dr. SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda (more about)

Associate Professor, Bandarnaike Centre of International Studies, 8/1, Liyanage Mawatha, Nawale Road, Nawala, Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka.
Area of research: Medieval South India and Sri Lanka. The Intermingling of Hinduism and Buddhism

 

Dr. Karin M. Polit (more about)

Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Institute for Ethnology, Heidelberg University, Germany.
Area of research: Aspiration, Education, and Stress among Indian Youth

 

The List of scholars who will be joining

Professor Issa Gulamhussein Shivji (more about)

Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Professor in Pan-African Studies, and former Head, Department of Constitution and Administration Law, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Area of Research: Political Economy of the Agrarian Question

 

Prof. Roy M. McLeod (more about)

University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Area of research:History and Philosophy of Science

 

Dr. Emma Elizabeth Mawdsley (more about)

Cambridge University, UK.
Area of research:Political Ecology of Wildlife Conservation and Urban Ecology(Delhi)

 

Professor Paul Greenough (more about)

Professor of History and of Community Behavioral Health, University of Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Area of Research: Social, political and economic responses to South Asian natural disasters since 1900

 

   
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