South Asia Studies Faculty
Azam Syed Ahmed
Position title: Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiology, School of Medicine and Public Health
Teri Allendorf
Position title: Assistant Scientist, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Email: allendorf@wisc.edu
Muhammad Asif
Position title: Urdu Instructor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Email: mfasif@wisc.edu
Sumudu Atapattu
Position title: Director of UW Law School Research Centers
Email: sumudu.atapattu@wisc.edu
Bernadette Baker
Position title: Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Email: bbaker@education.wisc.edu
Ann Behrmann
Position title: Honorary Fellow, Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Public Health; Board of Visitors, Global Health Institute
Email: atbehrma@wisc.edu
Rikhil Bhavnani
Position title: Associate Professor and Trice Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science
Email: bhavnani@wisc.edu
Gudrun Bühnemann
Position title: Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Email: gbuhnema@wisc.edu
Anthony Cerulli
Position title: Faculty Director, Center for South Asia, and Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Email: director@southasia.wisc.edu
Zara Chowdhary
Position title: Lecturer, Hindi, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Email: zchowdhary@wisc.edu
Aparna Dharwadker
Position title: Professor, Department of English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies
Email: adharwadker@wisc.edu
John Dunne
Position title: Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Email: jddunne@wisc.edu
Jonathan Durr
Position title: South Asian Languages Cataloger and LC-Program Student Cataloging Coordinator, Memorial Library
Email: jonathan.durr@wisc.edu
Tom Eggert
Position title: Senior Lecturer, Business Sustainability, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Email: tleggert@wisc.edu
Anna M. Gade
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Email: amgade@wisc.edu
Christine Garlough
Position title: 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
Email: clgarlough@wisc.edu
Sundaram Gunasekaran
Position title: Professor, Food Engineering and Director, CALS International Programs
Email: guna@wisc.edu
Anne Hansen
Position title: Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History
Email: arhansen@wisc.edu
Victor Jew
Position title: Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian American Studies
Email: vjew@wisc.edu
Jamal Jones
Position title: Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Email: jones23@wisc.edu
J. Mark Kenoyer
Position title: George F. Dales, Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor, Anthropology
Email: jkenoyer@wisc.edu
Jampa Khedup
Position title: Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Email: khedup@wisc.edu
Christopher Livanos
Position title: Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies
Email: clivanos@wisc.edu
B. Venkat Mani
Position title: Professor, Deptartment of German, Nordic, & Slavic
Email: bvmani@wisc.edu
Todd Michelson-Ambelang
Position title: Senior Academic Librarian for Scandinavian Humanities and South Asian Studies; ADA Accessibility Liaison for the General Library System
Email: todd.ambelang@wisc.edu
Anita Mukherjee
Position title: Assistant Professor, Risk and Insurance, School of Business
Email: amurkherjee@bus.wisc.edu
Priya Mukherjee
Position title: Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Corrie Norman
Position title: Associate Director, Religious Studies Program
Email: cenorman@wisc.edu
Muhammad Rehan
Position title: Pashto Instructor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Email: rehanpak31@gmail.com
Paul Robbins
Position title: Dean, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Email: director@nelson.wisc.edu
Hemant Shah
Position title: Director, School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism
Email: hgshah@wisc.edu
Gurindar S. Sohi
Position title: John P. Morgridge Professor and E. David Cronon Professor, Department of Computer Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering; UW-Madison Computer Architecture Group
Email: sohi@cs.wisc.edu
Sachin Tuli
Position title: Faculty Associate, International Business and Marketing, School of Business
Email: sachin.tuli@wisc.edu
South Asia Studies Affiliated Staff
Lindsey Bliefernicht
Position title: Assistant Director for Students and Curriculum, Institute for Regional and International Studies
Email: lindsey.bliefernicht@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-2630
Address:
Room 301 Ingraham Hall
Ryan Doud
Position title: Program Manager, Regional Flagship Language Initiatives (RFLI)-Culture Initiative
Email: rmdoud@wisc.edu
Laura J. Hammond
Position title: Administrative Director, South Asia Summer Language Institute; U.S. Director, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and American Institute of Pakistan Studies; Project Coordinator, UW-Madison Project GO
Email: ljhammond@southasia.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-4304
Address:
B488 Medical Sciences Center
1300 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706
Paige Hendricks
Position title: Project Program Manager, American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)
Email: pehendricks@wisc.edu
Kylie Holland
Position title: Program Coordinator, Regional Flagship Language Initiatives (RFLI)
Email: kholland3@wisc.edu
Address:
Kylie Holland is the Program Coordinator for the Regional Flagship Language Initiatives (RFLI) servicing the Indonesian (IFLI), South Asian (SAFLI), and Turkish (TURFLI) programs. She worked internationally from 2015 – 2020 and understands the unparalleled impact of learning a language and cultural exchange. Prior to her position at UW-Madison, she was an English Education Volunteer with the Peace Corps and worked as Resident Director of the IFLI program at the State University of Malang in Indonesia.
Anne Naparstek
Position title: SASLI Program Coordinator
Email: anne.naparstek@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 261-1194
Parwat Regmi
Position title: Nepali–English Interpreter, Translator/Workplace Computer Trainer, Cultural Linguistic Services (CLS)
Email: parwat.regmi@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-7521
Rachel Weiss
Position title: Undergraduate Advisor & Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Email: rweiss@wisc.edu