South Asia Program
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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Occasional Papers
Nine SAP occasional papers, published between 1971 and 1996, are available as open access PDF downloads.
Bulletin
The annually published SAP bulletin is available open access, with recent issues, below, as well as archives of previous bulletins, which used to be published semi-annually going back to 1990.
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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Payal Seth
Graduate Student
Payal is a Ph.D. candidate in the field of Applied Economics and Management. Her work is primarily focused on development economics and applied econometrics. As a Tata-Cornell Scholar, her fieldwork involves around 1000 households in 15 rural villages in India as she explores the linkages between sanitation and nutrition.