FACULTY
Ambassador Harsh Bhasin
Asian and Asian American Studies
India’s Foreign Policy, Contemporary India

William Chittick
Asian and Asian American Studies, Religious Studies
Islam, Sufism

Sunita Mukhi
Asian and Asian American Studies, The Charles B. Wang Center
Performance Studies; South Asian Diaspora, Cinema and Popular Culture

Theresa Kim
Theater Arts
South Asian Drama

Sung-Bae Park
Asian and Asian American Studies, Religious Studies
Buddhism

Sachiko Murata
Asian and Asian American Studies
Islam, Sufism, Feminine Spirituality

Andrew Nicholson
Asian and Asian American Studies, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Hinduism, Sanskrit, Orientalism, Buddhism, Vedanta Philosophy,Yoga in Theory and Practice.

Kamal Sridhar
Asian and Asian American Studies, Linguistics
Sociolinguistics of South Asia; Bilingualism & Language Maintenance in India and Indian Diaspora; Indian English and World Englishes

S.N. Sridhar
Asian and Asian American Studies, Linguistics
Language Contact, Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition and Use; Indian English, World Englishes, Psycholinguistics, of Kannada and Indian Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax, Sociolinguistics)

VISITING FACULTY
Purushottama Bilimoria
Deakin University and University of Melbourne
Philosophy of Religion, Indian Philosophy, Religion, Ethics and Law

VISITING SCHOLARS
Louise Harmon
Women and Law in India

Neela Bhattacharya Saxena
Indian Literature, Women’s Studies

Doris Srinivasan
Indian Art

ADJUNCT FACULTY
Padma Vibhushan Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
Hindustani Classical Music, Sarod

Narayan Hedge
SUNY Old Westbury
Literatures of India, Kannada Literature, Translation

Arvind Mandair
Sikhism

Aruna Sharma
Indian (Hindustani) Classical Music, Hindi

Malini Srinivasan
Bharatanatyam; Performing Arts of India

Laxmi Swaminathan
Sanskrit, Hinduism (Agama), Indian Mythology, Epics

Padma Bhushan Kamala Narayanan
Bharatanatyam