Rohan Murty is a technology entrepreneur. He holds a PhD in computer science from Harvard and a BS from Cornell. His dissertation work on white spaces networking was seminal in opening up a new area of research. Consequently, his work has won awards and fellowships from the ACM, Microsoft Research, Siebel foundation, and the National Science Foundation (USA). In 2012 he was selected as a fellow of Society of Fellows at Harvard.

Daniel Bass is the senior program manager for the South Asia Program and the Southwest Asia and North Africa Program. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor of anthropology and Asian studies.

Geographic Research Area: Sri Lanka, India, and South Asian diasporas

Research Interests: Ethnicity, citizenship, tea plantations, diaspora, and popular culture

Geographic Research Area: India

Teaching/Research Interests: Modern and contemporary urbanism and architecture and comparative modernities in the global south and global north
 

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.

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

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