University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: South Asia Studies Faculty

Core South Asian Studies Faculty at UW-Madison

Ahmed, Abdullahi

Ahmed, Azam Syed

Faculty Webpage Azam Ahmed, MD Biography Dr. Ahmed specializes in surgery for complex skull base tumors (meningiomas, pituitary adenomas, and acoustic neuromas), cerebrovascular disorders and neuroendovascular surgery. He also works closely with ear, nose and throat physicians for endoscopic skull base surgery. Some of Dr. Ahmed’s research was directed at improving visualization for neuroendovascular procedures. The main goal of …

Allendorf, Teri

Faculty Webpage Teri Allendorf Biography Dr. Teri Allendorf is a conservation biologist who has been working on issues of local communities and protected areas since 1994. She is a scientist in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a research associate with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. She is also …

Asif, Muhammad

Faculty Webpage Muhammad Asif Biography Muhammad Asif received his EdD in Language Education from the University of Leeds, UK. He has been involved in teaching Urdu as a Foreign Language and developing proficiency-based material for foreign language teaching for more than ten years. Apart from teaching, Dr. Asif speaks in academic conferences on language teacher …

Atapattu, Sumudu

Faculty Webpage Sumudu Atapattu Biography Sumudu Anopama Atapattu is a Teaching Professor and Director of the Global Legal Studies Center at UW Law School. She is also the Executive Director of the Human Rights Program at UW-Madison. She teaches in the areas of International Environmental law and climate change and human rights. She is affiliated …

Baishya, Anirban K.

Faculty Webpage Anirban Baishya Biography Anirban Baishya is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests lie at the intersection of visual and digital cultures, with a particular emphasis on media aesthetics, ethics and affect. His first book, The Selfie Machine: Selfies, Platforms and Digital Image Culture in …

Baker, Bernadette

Faculty Webpage Bernadette Baker

Banerjee, Mou

Faculty Webpage Mou Banerjee Biography Mou Banerjee, Harvard ’18, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her first book, “The Disinherited” was published in January 2025 from Harvard University Press. Her research has appeared in multiple journals such as the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS), the journal Political Theology, Perspectives …

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 …

Behrmann, Ann

Faculty Webpage Ann Behrmann Biography Dr. Ann Behrmann is a Madison pediatrician who worked for more than three decades with Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin. Her interest in international child health began with a month-long rotation in her second year of a UW pediatric residency working on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.  She …