Faculty
Naaz Fatima Rizvi
Teaching Associate, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India and Pakistan
Teaching/Research Interests: All levels of Urdu and advanced level of Hindi
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Lucinda Ramberg
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Feminist, postcolonial and queer theories, religion and secularism, medicine and the body
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Kandukuri Venkat Raman
Adjunct Professor, Plant Breeding and Genetics
Geographic Research Area: India and Bangladesh
Teaching/Research Interests: Research and technology transfers to promote agricultural innovations
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Eswar Prasad
Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy
Geographic Research Area: India, China, and other emerging markets
Teaching/Research Interests: Macroeconomics of financial globalization, financial regulation, and monetary policy frameworks and exchange rate policies in emerging markets
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Prabhu Pingali
Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Prabhu Pingali is director of Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition.
Geographic Research Area: India, Philippines, and Mexico
Teaching/Research Interests: Agricultural policy, nutrition, poverty, development, and the environment
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Barry Perlus
Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Art, Architecture, and Planning
Geographic Research Area: India, Nepal, China, and United States
Teaching/Research Interests: Observation and interpretation, multimedia art, and science and art
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Viranjini Munasinghe
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Asian American Studies
Viranjini Munasinghe's research interests focus on nationalism, race and ethnicity, creolization and indigeneity, Asian American Studies, South Asian Diaspora, Labor and Political Economy of Plantation Societies, Historical Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, Comparison, Postcolonial Theory. Her geographic research area is Trinidad and the Asian Diaspora in the Americas.
Geographic Research Area: Trinidad and the Asian Diaspora in the Americas
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Satya Mohanty
Professor Emeritus, English
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Critical theory, 20th-century literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, and modernism and postmodernism
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Saurabh Mehta
Associate Professor, Global Health, Epidemiology, and Nutrition
Geographic Research Area: India, Kenya, and Ecuador
Teaching/Research Interests: Infectious disease, nutrition, and epidemiology
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Matthew Velasco
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Matthew Velasco is an anthropological bioarchaeologist who studies ancient populations of the Peruvian Andes through the analysis of their skeletal remains. His research explores the emergence of novel ethnic identities and cultural traditions during the era preceding and encompassing Inka imperial expansion in the 15th century. To explore how these dynamic social transformations impacted the lived experience of the body and its treatment at death, he analyzes and interpret indicators of social identity, biological relatedness, diet, and health status written on the human skeleton.