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. He is the author of Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic: Anxious Selves in Urban and Rural South India (University of Hawaii, 2025) and The Future of Bangalore’s Cosmopolitan Pasts: Civility and Difference in a Global City (University of Hawaii, 2018). 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