University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Program Staff

CSA staff and faculty director

Ahmed, Abdullahi

Beckham, Sarah

Biography Dr. Sarah Beckham specializes in sound systems of South Asian languages, with a research focus on contact linguistics and loanword phonology in Marathi. In addition, she is a co-founding member of the Punjabi Boliyan Research Initiative (PBRI). She serves as the Academic Director for the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI), Executive Director for the …

Fowler, Andrea

Biography Andrea Fowler serves the Center for South Asia as Assistant Director, coordinating Outreach Programming, FLAS for CSA and SASLI, and serving as the Conference Coordinator for the Annual Conference on South Asia. Her outreach programs have been supported by a Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Project Grant (Teaching Forward Fellowship Project for Wisconsin Middle School Educators) …

Murthy, Viren

Faculty Webpage Viren Murthy Biography My work probes the historical conditions for the possibility of philosophy and politics in the modern world and in East Asia in particular. I am generally interested in the attempts of East Asian intellectuals to resist modernity through reviving premodern philosophies and religions, such as Buddhism. My first book, The …