University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: South Asia Studies Faculty

Core South Asian Studies Faculty at UW-Madison

Eggert, Tom

Faculty Webpage Tom Eggert Biography Tom Eggert is the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council and is a senior lecturer in sustainability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught classes on sustainability since 1997 and developed the graduate certificate in Business, Environment & Social Responsibility. He has spoken about sustainable consumption in India …

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) …

Gade, Anna M.

Faculty Webpage Anna M. Gade Biography Professor Gade’s previous published work emphasizes theory and method in the academic study of religion and Islamic Studies.  Her research since 2007 explains global cultural, historical and religious responses to environmental change, specializing in history, knowledge and practices of Southeast Asia. This project and ones before it have been based on extensive fieldwork in …

Garlough, Christine

Faculty Webpage Christine Garlough Biography Christine Garlough is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Director for the Center for South Asia (2015-16), and affiliate of the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore, Interdisciplinary Theater Studies, and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. Her research …

Goble, Ryan

Biography Ryan Goble is the WISLI coordinator for the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) and the Less Commonly Taught Languages Career Fair in the Language Program Office. Before joining the Language Program Office, Goble served as the project coordinator for the Wisconsin Language Roadmap Initiative at the UW-Madison Language Institute, collaborating with diverse leaders …

Hammond, Laura J.

Faculty Webpage Laura J. Hammond Biography Laura Hammond has been the SASLI program coordinator since the inaugural Summer of SASLI in 2003. Laura has a BFA in ceramic art from the University of Washington-Seattle and is working towards an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Laura has been overseas for work, travel, and education. As …

Hansen, Anne

Faculty Webpage Anne Hansen Biography I am a historian of religion with research interests in the history of Buddhist ethical ideas and modern religious reform and social justice movements in Southeast Asia, Cold War Buddhism, colonial Buddhism, and religion and visual culture. Much of my work focuses on Buddhist ethics of care and/or “local” interpretations …