January 2009
Department of History, University of
Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Area of research: Profits and Power: Anatomy of Indian Entrepreneurship
in Nigeria, 1900-2008)
Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Erfurt, Germany
Area of Research: Perceptions of Threat: Europe and the Muslim World
January 2008
Department of History, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA Area of research: Urban History and Gender and Cultural History
October 2008
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Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced StudyJawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067 |
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List of Scholars Invited to JNIAS |
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| Fellows at the JNIAS who joined before January 2008 | ||
Dr. Paul FletcherDepartment of Religious Studies, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK |
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Dr. Carolyn Penfold (more about)Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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| Fellows who joined in January 2008 | ||
Dr. Johannes Dillinger (more about)Department of History, Trier University, Trier, GermanyArea of Research:Early Modern European Cultural and Political History, Witch-hunting, Rise of the Peasantry etc. |
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Professor Govindjee (more about)Department of Biophysics,Photosynthesis University of Illinois, Urbana, USAArea of Research:Biophysics; Photosynthesis |
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Professor Gail Olivia Pearson (more about)Head, Faculty of Economics Business Law University of Sydney, AustraliaArea of Research: Commercial Law, Goods Law, Unfair practices, Financial Services and Credit Law. |
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Dr. Daud Robert Ali (more about)School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UKArea of Research: Medieval History of South Asia |
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Professor Christine Ann Gledhill (more about)School of Arts, Design, Media Culture, University of Sundarland, UKArea of Research:Cinema Culture |
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Professor Safronova Alexandra Lvovna (more about)Head, Department of South Asian History, Moscow State University Moscow, RussiaArea of Research:South Asian and African History |
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Dr. Norbert Schurer (more about)Department of English, California State University, California, USAArea of Research:Literature and Social History, Anglo-Indian Relations |
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Professor Edgar Bauer Duffoo (more about)Philosophy and History of Religion, University of Heidelberg, GermanyArea of Research:Culture Studies. Psyche Analysis |
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Professor David Lockwood (more about)Head, Department of History, Flinders University, Adelaide, AustraliaArea of Research:Soviet History, Contemporary Russia |
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Professor Dafydd Gibbon (more about)Department of English & Linguistics, University of Bielefed, GermanyArea of Research:Computational Linguistics |
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Professor Laurent Pordie (more about)Director, Department of Social Sciences, French Institute of Pondicherry Pondicherry, IndiaArea of Research:Anthropology and Ethno-Pharmacology |
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Professor Philip Oldenburg (more about)Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, USAArea of research:Theories of Political Modernization; State and Bureaucracy in the Third World |
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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 |
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Professor Richard William Allen (more about)Professor & Chair of Cinema Studies, New York University, USAArea of research:Philosophy of Film, Films of Alfred Hitchcock and Hindi Cinema |
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Dr. Vasileois Syros (more about)University of Helsinki, FinlandArea of Research: Political Philosophy and History of Religion, Impact of Greek Political Thought on Medieval and early Modern India 13-16 Century |
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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 |
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Professor Deborah Klimburg-Salter (more about)Professor of Asian Art History, University of Vienna, Austria |
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Dr. Michael Alram (more about)Vice-Director of the Coin Cabinet of the Kunsthistorisches Vienna and Lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria |
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Dr. Nikolaus Schindel (more about)Teacher at the Institute for Numismatics and Monetary History, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |
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Dr. Klaus Vondrovec (more about)Researcher and Lecturer, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |
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Dr. Verena Widorn (more about)University Assistant, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |
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Sean McAllister (more about)Lead Developer for the WHAV Digital Image Archive and Member of the Secure Systems Lab at TU Wien.Vienna, Austria |
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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 |
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Professor Ari Sitas (more about)Chair of Industrial, Organisational and Labour Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South AfricaWriter, 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. |
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| The List of scholars who joined from January 2009 onwards. | ||
Dr. Pritam Singh (more about)Senior Lecturer in Economics, Oxford Brookes University, UKArea of research: Political Economy of Human Rights in a Globalizing World: India and Punjab |
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Dr. Meera Nanda (more about)Research Fellow in Religion and Science, John Templeton Foundation, USA Area of research: Science, Post-Modernism and Culture |
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Dr. Matthew McCartney (more about)Department of Economics, University of London, UKArea of Research: Microeconomics. International Trade |
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Professor M. Zannetti (more about)Professor of Plasma Physics, The University of Salerno, ItalyArea of research: Various Aspects of Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics |
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Professor Elvira Carvajal (more about)Department of Cellular Biology and Genetics, State University of Rio de Janeiro, BrazilArea of Research:Genetic and Molecular Biology of Microorganisms |
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Professor Adrienne L. Kaeppler (more about)Social/Cultural Anthroplogist and Curator of Oceanic Ethnology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USAArea of Research: Material Culture and the Visual and Performing Arts in their Cultural Contexts |
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Professor Christopher John De Wet (more about)Professor and Head, Department of AnthropologyRhodes University, South Africa Area of Research:Anthropology, Geography, refugee and resettlement studies |
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Dr. Basile Leclere (more about)French, Latin and Theatre Teacher, Lycee Charlie, Decines, France.Area of research:Indian Languages and Literature |
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Professor Robert Douglas Jessop (more about)Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University, EnglandAreas of Research:Cultural Political Economy, Political Economy of Scale, Social and Political Theory |
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Dr. Ngai-Ling Sum (more about)Programme Director on Globalization and Information Age, Lancaster University, EnglandArea of Research:Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions |
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Professor Charles Merewether (more about)Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, AustraliaChairman, Advisory Board, Hong Kong International Art Fair. Area of Research:Art History and Comparative Literature |
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Professor David Weberman(more about)Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, HungaryArea of Research:19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Hermeneutics, Aesthetics |
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Professor Allaine Cerwonka (more about)Head, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, HungaryArea of Research:Intimate Globalizations: Negotiating Belonging and Privilege through the International Trade in Human Eggs |
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Professor Olutayo Charles Adesina (more about)
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Professor Stephen Borbley (more about)Department of Universal and Comparative Lit. The Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaArea of research:Comparative Literature, Mythology, The History of Mentalities, Literary Criticism, and Political Psychology |
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Dr. Antti Ruotsala (more about)University Lecturer, General History, Department of History, University of Helsinki, FinlandArea of Research:Encounters between European and Mongols in the middle of 13th Century |
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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, FranceArea of Research:Comparative Social History of Early Modern Europe |
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Dr. Michael Dusche (more about)Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Erfurt, Germany |
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Dr. Jozsef Borocz (more about)Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, USAArea of research:The European Union and Global Social Change |
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Dr. Helen Susanna Lambert (more about)Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UKArea of research:Social and Cultural Influence on Health |
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Dr. Dare Clubb (more about)Associate Professor of Playwriting, Department of Threatre
Arts, University of
Iowa City, IA 52242, USA |
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Prof. Veneeta Dayal (more about)Acting Dean of Humanities, and Professor of Linguistics,Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USAArea of research:Semantic Theory, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Hindi/South Indian Linguistics, Cognitive Science |
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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 |
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Prof. Marta Dvorak (more about)Paris University, FranceArea of research: Re-situating modernism, a founding axis of cultural globalization |
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Professor Brian Roger Tomlinson (more about)Dean, Professor of Economics, School of Oriental African Studies, University of London, UKArea of Research: Economic History |
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Prof. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (more about)University of Rome, ItalyArea of research: Monetary Standards and Exchange Rates |
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Dr. Tadd Fernee (more about)Research Scholar, 37 Rue Arthur Rozier, Paris, FranceArea of research:Comparative Study of the Political Legacy of the Enlightenment |
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| 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, USAArea of research: Amir Khusrou: Poet of Sultans and Sufis |
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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 |
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Prof. Jayati Lal (more about)University of Michigan, USA.Area of research: Economy, Society and Culture in the Era of Globalization |
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Dr. Silke Schicktanz (more about)University Medical Centre Gottingen, Deptt. for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Gottingen, GermanyArea of research: Biomedical Ethics (specific focus: organ transplantation, genetic Testing, end of life decisions, ageing) |
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Dr. Ruhi Saith (more about)Visiting Senior Scientist, Deptt. of Public Health, University of Oxford, UKArea of research: Public Health and Development |
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Prof. Kumaraswamy Velupillai (more about)Deptt. of Economics, University of Trento, Italy.Area of research: Aspects of the Structural Dynamics of Capitalist Economies |
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Dr. Yuko Nikaido (more about)Faculty of Economics, Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan.Area of research: Development Economics, Indian Economy |
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Dr. Proshot Kalami (more about)Lecturer, Department of English & Drama, Loughborough University,Loughborough, UK Area of research: Comparative Literatur |
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Dr. Sudipto Chatterjee (more about)Senior Lectuer & Subject Leader of Drama, Loughborough University,Louborough, UK. Area of research: Indian Popular Theatre: Myths, Masses & Movement |
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Professor Tess Onwueme (more about 1), 2Professor of Cultural Diversity, University of Winconsin – Eau Claire, USA. |
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Dr. Motti LernerPlaywright and Screen Writer, Tel Aviv University, Israel Area of Research: Playwriting, Israeli Threatre, and Israeli Theater and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict) |
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Dr. Margarita Olivera (more about)Research Fellow, Department of Public Economics, University of Pavia,Pavia, Italy. Area of research: Economic Growth Theory |
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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 |
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Dr. Utpal Lahiri (more about)Research Professor, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Area of research: Polarity Sensitivity in Natural Language: Crosslingustic Studies |
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Prof. Peter AlexandarUniversity of Johannesberg, South AfricaArea of research: Comparative Study of Class and its Relationship to Caste and Race |
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Dr. Gunnel Cederlof (more about)Department of History, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenArea of research: Environmental History of Law |
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Prof. James G. Manor (more about)University of London, UKArea of research: The Actions of State Governments In India and Their Implications |
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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) |
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Prof. Christian ComeliauSenior Economist, FMSH, Paris, France |
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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 |
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Dr. Natasa Miskovic (more about)Department of History, Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland.Area of research: Tito, Nehru, Nasser, and the Non-Aligned Movement |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Prof. Tito Marci (more about)Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Rome, Italy.Area of research: Sociology of Law |
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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 |
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Dr. Tinu Ruparell (more about)Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, USA.Area of research: Locating Comparative Philosophy of Religion |
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Prof. Richa NagarProfessor 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Professor, Detlef Briesen (more about)Department of History, JLU University, Giessen, Germany.Area of research: Globalization in Social Sciences |
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Dr. Clarisse Herrenschmidt (more about)Researcher at CNRS, Paris, France.Area of research: Languages and Civilization of Ancient Iran |
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Dr. Claire Joubert (more about)Professor of English Literature, University of Paris, France.Area of research:Globalising the disciplines |
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Professor Shen Han (more about)Department of History, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.Area of research: British Parliamentary and Political History |
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Dr. Gyanesh KudaisyaAssociate 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dr. Saikat Majumdar (more about)Assistant Professor, Department of English, Stanford University, USA.Area of research:A transnational study of the literary public intellectual |
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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 |
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Prof. Janelle Reinelt (more about)Professor Theatre and Performance, University of Warwick, UK.Area of research:Contemporary Drama |
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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 |
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Dr. Tabish KhairAssociate Professor, Department of English, January 2012 University of Aarhus,Denmark |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Professor Rajani K. Kanth (more about)Harvard University, USAArea of research: International Political Economy, Globalization, Development, and Comparative Economics |
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Dr. Mohamed Elsayed Fekry Ali (more about)Fellow, RTFDCS, Govt. of India, CICS, Chennai, IndiaArea of research:Development of Maize, Cotton and Wheat Genotypes efficient for strained iron and zinc nutrition in calcareous and sandy soil |
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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) |
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Dr. Rasheed.Oyewole Olaniyi (more about)Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.Area of research:Rethinking Migration and Diaspora Identity in West Africa |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dr. Andrew Edward Willles Chitty (more about)Lecturer in Philosophy, Arts B, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 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, TanzaniaArea of Research: Political Economy of the Agrarian Question |
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Prof. Roy M. McLeod (more about)University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaArea of research:History and Philosophy of Science |
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Dr. Emma Elizabeth Mawdsley (more about)Cambridge University, UK.Area of research:Political Ecology of Wildlife Conservation and Urban Ecology(Delhi) |
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Professor Paul Greenough (more about)Professor of History and of Community Behavioral Health, University of Iowa City, Iowa, USAArea of Research: Social, political and economic responses to South Asian natural disasters since 1900 |
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