South Asia Program
Michael L. Weiss
Professor, Linguistics
Geographic Research Area: South Asia
Teaching/Research Interests: Indo-European linguistics, especially the historical phonology and morphology of Greek, Latin and the Sabellic languages
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Michael Tomlan
Professor, Historic Preservation Planning
Geographic Research Area: Asia, the Middle East, and Central and South America
Teaching/Research Interests: Relationships between museums and the public, and preservation, planning, and religion
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Jessica R. Ratcliff
Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies
Geographic Research Area: India
Teaching/Research Interests: History of science and technology, British empire from the 17th through the 19th centuries, science and the state, East India Company and the India Office in the 19th century
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Alan Jeffrey Nussbaum
Professor, Linguistics and Classics
Geographic Research Area: South Asia
Teaching/Research Interests: Indo-European linguistics, and Greek and Latin comparative and historical linguistics
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Barbara Catherine Lust
Professor Emerita, Human Development
Geographic Research Area: Sri Lanka
Teaching/Research Interests: Cognitive science, developmental psychology, and linguistics
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- SAP Faculty Associate
- SAP Professor Emeriti
Contact
Email: bcl4@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-0829
Iago Gocheleishvili
Senior Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies
Geographic Research Area: Iran and the Middle East
Teaching/Research Interests: Democracy in Modern Iran, Russo-Iranian relations, constitutional movements in the Middle East, Mongol rule in the Middle East
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Larry Douglas Brown
Sidney Kaufman Professor in Geophysics
Geographic Research Area: Nepal, Tibet, China
Teaching/Research Interests: Geophysics, seismology, ground-penetrating radar, and geotectonics
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Minor in Sanskrit Studies
The undergraduate minor in Sanskrit Studies is intended for Cornell students who wish to broaden and deepen their competence in the Sanskrit language and traditional Indian religious, literary, and philosophical culture.
A candidate for the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Science degree at Cornell may achieve the minor by completing at least 18 units of course work (typically five courses) in Sanskrit Studies. Admission to the minor shall be declared no later than the first semester of the graduating year.
More details about the Sanskrit Studies Minor and all of its requirements are available from the Department of Asian Studies, which administers the Asian Studies minors.
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Peter Hobbs
Adjunct Professor and Associate Director, IP-CALS academic program
Peter Hobbs is a crop scientist and agronomist, with a research, teaching, and extension focus on rice and wheat systems and conservation agriculture and rural development.
Geographic Research Area: South Asia, Latin America, and Africa
Teaching/Research Interests: Tropical cropping systems, international agriculture and rural development, agroforestry systems