Members

Membership in the South Asian Studies Collective is open to all researchers, scholars, and faculty at Dartmouth College who are interested in any aspect of South Asia. Members of this interdisciplinary group are affiliated with a range of departments and units on campus and specialize in a variety of fields and topics.

Members for the 2024–25 year include:

  • Seher Agarwala, Lecturer, Art History
  • Curt Gambetta, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows and Lecturer, Art History
  • Sienna Radha Craig, Professor of Anthropology; Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
  • Douglas E. Haynes, Professor of History
  • Manav Kapur, Lecturer, History
  • Reiko Ohnuma, Professor and Chair of Religion; Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Nikhil Pandhi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows and Lecturer, Anthropology
  • Paiza Rahman, Postdoctoral fellow, Society of Fellows and Lecturer, Religion
  • Smriti Upadhyay, Assistant Professor, Sociology

Past Participants include:

  • Tiraana Bains, Modern Intellectual History Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Lalit K. Batra, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
  • Pankhuree Dube, Assistant Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State University
  • Jazmin Graves, Assistant Professor, African American & African Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • Kolby Hanson, Postdoctoral Fellow in Strategy and Policy at U.S. Naval War College
  • Nisha Kommattam, Founding Member and Visiting Professor in Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
  • Elizabeth Lhost, South Asia Digital Librarian, Center for Research Libraries /  Society of Fellows and Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College
  • Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University
  • Aparna Parikh, Assistant Teaching Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University
  • Nikhil Rao, Associate Professor of History, Wellesley College
  • Preeti Singh, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages Program, Dartmouth College