Center for South Asia
A member of the International Division at UW-Madison

South Asia Studies Faculty

Azam Syed Ahmed

Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiology, School of Medicine and Public Health

azam.ahmed@neurosurgery.wisc.edu

Teri Allendorf

Assistant Scientist, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology

allendorf@wisc.edu

Aseem Ansari

Professor of Chemical Genomics and Synthetic Biology

ansari@biochem.wisc.edu

Sumudu Atapattu

Director of UW Law School Research Centers

sumudu.atapattu@wisc.edu

Bernadette Baker

Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

bbaker@education.wisc.edu

Ann Behrmann

Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health

atbehrma@facstaff.wisc.edu

Rikhil Bhavnani

Associate Professor and Trice Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science

bhavnani@wisc.edu

Kathryn Blomker

Honorary Fellow, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

kblomker@facstaff.wisc.edu

Gudrun Bühnemann

Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

gbuhnema@wisc.edu

Anthony Cerulli

Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures

acerulli@wisc.edu

Pallavi Chhabra

Teaching Assistant, Asian Languages and Cultures

chhabra2@wisc.edu

Preeti Chopra

Professor, Department of Art History

chopra@wisc.edu

Aparna Dharwadker

Professor, Department of English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies

adharwadker@wisc.edu

Vinay Dharwadker

Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies

vdharwadker@wisc.edu

Henry Drewal

Evjue-Bascom Professor, Department of Art History and Department of Afro-American Studies

hjdrewal@wisc.edu

Lalita du Perron

Associate Director, Center for South Asia

lalita.duperron@wisc.edu

John Dunne

Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

jddunne@wisc.edu

Tom Eggert

Senior Lecturer, Business Sustainability, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

tleggert@wisc.edu

Sara Farsiu

Teaching Assistant, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

farsiu@wisc.edu

Anna M. Gade

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

amgade@wisc.edu

Christine Garlough

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies; Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore; Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies; and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures

clgarlough@wisc.edu

Sundaram Gunasekaran

Professor, Food Engineering

guna@wisc.edu

Victor Jew

Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian American Studies

vjew@wisc.edu

J. Mark Kenoyer

George F. Dales, Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor, Anthropology

jkenoyer@wisc.edu

Jampa Khedup

Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

khedup@wisc.edu

Christopher Livanos

Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies

clivanos@wisc.edu

B. Venkat Mani

Director, Center for South Asia; Professor, Dept. of German, Nordic, & Slavic

director@southasia.wisc.edu

Todd Michelson-Ambelang

Associate Lecturer, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic; South Asia Bibliographer, Memorial Library

todd.ambelang@wisc.edu

Anita Mukherjee

Assistant Professor, Risk and Insurance, School of Business

amurkherjee@bus.wisc.edu

Viren Murthy

Associate Professor, Department of History

vmurthy2@wisc.edu

Azam Niroomand-Rad

Honorary Faculty, Department of Medical Physics

nirromandrad@wisc.edu

Corrie Norman

Associate Director, Religious Studies Program

cenorman@wisc.edu

Asifa Quraishi-Landes

Professor, Law School

asifa.quraishilandes@wisc.edu

Paul Robbins

Director, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

director@nelson.wisc.edu

Hemant Shah

Director, School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism

hgshah@wisc.edu

Mitra Sharafi

Associate Professor, Law School

mitra.sharafi@wisc.edu

Mark Sidel

Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law, Law School

mark.sidel@wisc.edu

Gurindar S. Sohi

John P. Morgridge Professor and E. David Cronon Professor, Department of Computer Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering; UW-Madison Computer Architecture Group

sohi@cs.wisc.edu

Sachin Tuli

Faculty Associate, International Business and Marketing, School of Business

sachin.tuli@wisc.edu

Andre Wink

Professor, Department of History; Senior Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities

awink@wisc.edu

Maij Xyooj

South Asia Resident Librarian

mai.xiong@wisc.edu

Stephen Young

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

sjyoung3@wisc.edu