University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: South Asia Studies Faculty

Core South Asian Studies Faculty at UW-Madison

Shrestha, Sweta

Faculty Webpage Sweta Shrestha Biography Sweta Shrestha is the Workforce Training Programs Lead for the Mobilizing Action Towards Community Health (MATCH) Group at the Population Health Institute (PHI). She manages the Population Health Service Fellowship program, the COVID 19 Response Corps Program and provides leadership and guidance on public health workforce training and development efforts …

Sidel, Mark

Faculty Webpage Mark Sidel Biography Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also serves as Chair in Global Justice (visiting) at the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice, and a board member at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL); the China Medical Board; …

Siklós, Csanád

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Sohi, Gurindar S.

Faculty Webpage Gurindar Sohi Biography Guri Sohi received a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, and has been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1985. He is currently the John P. Morgridge Professor and the E. David Cronon Professor of Computer Sciences in the Computer Sciences and …

Thakur, Purnima

Biography Purnima Thakur is the Program Coordinator for the Regional Flagship Language Initiatives (RFLI) servicing Southeast Asian (SEAFLI) program. She also serviced the now retired South Asian (SAFLI), and Turkish (TURFLI) programs. She holds an MPhil in Linguistics (Graduate Center, CUNY) with a focus on Second Language Acquisition and Phonology. She is certified to teach …

Tuli, Sachin

Faculty Webpage Sachin Tuli Biography Mr. Tuli teaches courses in international business and global marketing, including Introduction to International Business and Global Marketing Strategy. He has developed, taught and led international business seminars to China, India, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as for other faculty. Mr. Tuli …

Vaid, Uchita

Faculty Webpage Uchita Vaid Biography My scholarship places central importance on understanding the synergistic relationship between the built environment and socio-cultural milieu, and its role in improving the human condition. I investigate interactions between human behavior, design, and health with a goal to create healthy and equitable environments for people to live, work, and play …

Weiss, Rachel

Young, Stephen

Faculty Webpage Stephen Young Biography I have two main areas of research. The first engages with economic geography and development studies to explore how young people in provincial India are resisting or accelerating processes of marketization. The second draws on work in urban and political geography to trace the emergence of new infrastructures of spatial …