SAP Core Faculty
Sarah Besky
Binenkorb Director, South Asia Program
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- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SAP Director
- SAP Steering Committee
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
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Email: sb2626@cornell.edu
Mary N. Woods
Professor Emerita, Architecture
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: Modern and contemporary urbanism and architecture and comparative modernities in the global south and global north
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- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SAP Professor Emeriti
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Email: mnw5@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-6416
Andrew C. Willford
Professor, Anthropology
Andrew C. Willford is a professor of anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University. His latest book, The Future of Bangalore’s Cosmopolitan Pasts: Civility and Difference in a Global City (University of Hawaii, 2018) examines the politics of language, religion, identity, and belonging in Bangalore, India. His previous research focused on forms of Tamil and Hindu displacement, revivalism, and identity politics in Malaysia.
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- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Core Faculty
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Email: acw24@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-2686
Norman Uphoff
Professor Emeritus, Government and International Agriculture
Geographic Research Area: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Bhutan
Teaching/Research Interests: development administration, irrigation management, local participation, agroecology, and strategies for broad-based rural development
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Robert Travers
Associate Professor, History
Geographic Research Area: India and Pakistan
Teaching/Research Interests: British Empire, legacy of Indo-Persian politics in colonial era, history of political and economic ideas, and the history of global interconnections
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- Faculty
- SAP Core Faculty
- SAP Steering Committee
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Email: trt5@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5040
Sujata Singh
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: All levels of Hindi language
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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