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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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Faculty Webpage Sundaram Gunasekaran
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 …
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 …
Faculty Webpage Victor Jew
Faculty Webpage Jamal Jones Biography Jamal Jones works on the literary history of premodern south India, with a focus on poetry in Sanskrit and Telugu. He is particularly interested in how poetic practices intersect with the fields of religion and politics. Two projects in progress consider this area. The first is a book tentatively titled …