Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067

 
List of Scholars Invited to JNIAS
Joined In
List of Scholars Invited to Join from April 2010 onwards:

Dr. Yuko Nikaido (more about)

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

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
 

Prof. James G. Manor (more about)

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

Dr. Emma Elizabeth Mawdsley (more about)

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

Prof. Peter Alexandar (more about)

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

Professor Paul Greenough (more about)

Professor of History and of Community Behavioral Health, University of Iowa City, Iowa 52242, 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. Gunnel Cederlof (more about)

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

Professor, Detlef Briesen

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

Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie

Pro-Vice Chancellor for Planning and Development, University of West Indies, West Indies.
Area of research:
Education and Development
 

 Professor Shen Han (more about)

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

Dr. Margarita Olivera (more about)

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

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
 

Dr. Proshot Kalami (more about)

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

Dr. Sudipto Chatterjee (more about)

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

Professor Tess Onwueme (more about 1), 2

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

Dr. Fabrizio Speziale (more about)

Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Heidelberg,
Heidelberg, Germany.
Area of research:
  Social and Historical Anthropology
 

Dr. Razvan Paraianu (more about)

University Lecturer, University of Petru Maior, Romania.
Area of research:
History of Racial Sciences
 

Dr. Evangelos Venetis

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

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

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

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

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

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

Professor Robert Douglas Jessop

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

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

December 2009

Fellows who joined in January 2008

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

January 2008

Professor Gail Olivia Pearson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Professor of Asian Art History, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

October 2008

Dr. Michael Alram

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

October 2008

Dr. Nikolaus Schindel

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

October 2008

Dr. Klaus Vondrovec

Researcher and Lecturer, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

October 2008

Dr. Verena Widorn

University Assistant, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

October 2008

Sean McAllister

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

Fellows at the JNIAS who joined before January 2008

Dr. Paul Fletcher

Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

2006

Dr. Carolyn Penfold

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

June 2007