Priya Kothari
2023
Between Divine Path and Devotional Community: Preaching the Bhāgavata Purāṇa in the Vallabha Sampradāya of Western India
Nicole Ferreira
2022
Mobile Pasts: Memory, Migration, and Place in Afghan Identity, 1451-1770
Kashi Gomez
2022
Ghanaśyāma and his Co-wives: Language, Gender, and Identity in Sanskrit Archives from Eighteenth-century Tanjavur
Thiti Jamkajornkeiat
2022
Peripheral Dialectics: History and Theory of Left Internationalism in Postcolonial Indonesia (1943-1966)
John Pickens
2022
Preliminary Practices and the Formation of Tibetan Buddhism
Janet Um
2022
Daṇḍin’s Avantisundarī: A Study in Genre and Sociability
Sophia Warshall
2022
Imprints and Impressions: a study of Javanese stūpika
Shawn Callanan
2021
Halting Progress: the Meanings of Kemadjoean in Adinegoro’s Asmara Djaja
Ryan Damron
2021
Deyadharma — A Gift of the Dharma: The Life and Works of Vanaratna
Padma Maitland
2021
The Great Wander: Buddhism, Travel, and the Hindi World
Sean Kerr
2021
The Literary Abhidhamma Text: Anuruddha’s Manual of Defining Mind and Matter (Namarupapariccheda) and the Production of Pali Commentarial Literature in South India
Megan Hewitt
2021
Ilmu Lan Laku: The Arts of Praxis in Indonesian Transformative Movements
Lisa Brooks
2021
Translating Touch in Ayurveda: Medicine Sense and Subjectivity in Early South Asia and Contemporary Kerala
Sohini Pillai
2021
Region and Religion in Retellings of the Mahabharata
Kat Gutierrez
2020
The Region of Imperial Strategy: Regino Garcia, Sebastián Vidal, Mary Clemens and the Consolidation International Botany in the Philippines, 1858-1936
Yusmarni Djalius
2019
Minangkabau Intellectuals and Radical Nationalism in British Malaya
Rebecca Whitington
2019
Tug-of-ear: The Play of Dialect in Modern Bengali and Tamil Literature
Hannah Lord Archambault
2018
Geographies of Influence: Two Afghan Military Households in 17th and 18th Century South India
Thibodi Buakamsri
2018
Uncommon tales of common folks: Life–stories of ordinary people across the nineteenth–century Cambodia
Instructor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Joseph Scalice
2018
Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership: Martial Law and the Communist Parties of the Philippines, 1957-1974
Kankan Xie
2018
Estranged Comrades: Global Networks of Indonesian Communism, 1926-1932
Sonal Acharya
2016
Melodrama, Mythology, and Moral Reform: Parsi Drama and Agha Hashra Kashmiri (1879-1935)
Umar Thamrin
2016
Beautiful Lives: Priests, Beauticians and the performance of Islamic Piety in a non-gendered economy in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Visiting Fellow, University of Oregon
Lauren Bausch
2015
Kosalan Philosophy in the Kanva Satapatha Brahmana and the Suttanipata
Greg Goulding
2015
The Cold War Poetics of Mukitbodh: A Study of Hindi Internationalism, 1943-1964
Luther Obrock
2015
Sanskrit Imagination in the Sultanate Court: Pandit Srivara and Early Modern Kashmir
Abhijeet Paul
2015
Unfinished Yarn: Work, Technology, and the Ethical Subject in Kolkata
Trang Cao
2014
Bodily Impacts: Vietnamese Modernism and the Dynamics of the Contact Zones
Independent Editor
Rebekah Collins
2014
The Extraordinary Everyday: Contemporary Literature and Art from Viet Nam and the Vietnamese Diaspora
Lecturer, SSEAS, UC Berkeley
Christopher D. Wallis
2014
To Enter, to be entered, to merge: The role of religious experience in the traditions of Tantric Shaivism
Elisabeth Raddock
2012
Constructing the Hindu Temple in the Puranic Age: The Vastu-puru-samandala in the Haya-shirsa Pancha-ratra and the Agni Purana
Michael Slouber
2012
Garuda Medicine: A History of Snakebite and Religious Healing in South Asia
Kiran Keshavamurthy
2012
Scenes of Abjection: Power, Sexuality and Class in Modern Tamil Literature
Jennifer Clare
2011
Canons, Conventions and Creativity: Defining Literary Tradition in Premodern Tamil South India
Nikhil Govind
2011
Pluralizing Nationalism: Narrative, Politics and the Figure of the Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel from the 1930s to the 1950s
Ian Lowman
2011
From China to the Sea: The Political Imagination of Angkorian Cambodia
Independent Scholar
Preetha Mani
2011
Gender and Genre: Hindi and Tamil Short Story Writing and the Framing of the Postcolonial Indian Nation, 1950-1970
Srinivas Reddy
2011
The Āmuktamālyada of Kṛṣṇadevarāya Language, Power & Devotion in Sixteenth Century South India
Elizabeth Segran
2011
Expressions of Desire and the Desire for Expression: Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in Classical Tamil Poetry
Gita Pai
2010
Kingship, Images, and Rituals: A Nāyaka Monument in South India, 1635-2009
Vasudha Paramasivan
2010
Between Text and Sect: Early Nineteenth Century Shifts in the Theology of Ram
Carlos Ney Mena
2009
The Hermeneutics of the Tirumantiram
Laurie Margot Ross
2009
Journeying, adaptation, and translation: Topeng Cirebon at the margins
SSRC 2012-2013 Transregional Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asia Program
Sujata Sudhakar Mody
2008
Literature, language, and nation formation: the story of a modern Hindi journal 1900-1920
Ellen Elizabeth Boccuzzi
2007
Becoming urban: Thai literature about rural-urban migration and a society in transition
The Asia Foundation
Prudence F Bruns
2007
Nāḍīvijñāna the crest-jewel of Ayureda: a translation of six central texts and an examination of the sources, influence and development of Indian pulse-diagnosis
Geetha Kamalakshi Murali
2007
Tracing the signs: voter mobilization and the functionality of ideas in Tamil Nadu
Elizabeth Chandra
2006
National fictions: Chinese-Malay literature and the politics of forgetting
Layne Ross Little
2006
Bowl full of sky: story-making and the many lives of the Siddha Bhōgar
Deven Patel
2006
The evolution of a Sanskrit literary culture: a study of the Naiṣadha tradition in light of its commentaries and receptive histories
Shobna Nijhawan
2004
Public reasoning as moral duty: Hindi women’s journals and nationalist discourse (1910-1930)
Adheesh Avinash Sathaye
2004
Viśvāmitra: intertextuality and performance of classical narratives about caste
Archana Venkatesan
2004
Āṇṭāḷ and her Magic Mirror: her life as a poet in the Guises of the Goddess; the exegetical strategies of Tamil Śrīvaiṣṇavas in the Apotheosis of Āṇṭāḷ
Anita Anantharam
2003
One day the girl will return: feminism, nation, and poetry in South Asia
Ray Wasantha Chandrasekara
2000
Private lives, public stories: representations of Kerajaan, Kebangsaan, and Kerakyatan in the Malay world
Thomas Lee Cooper
2000
Sacred painting in Post-World War II Bali: tradition in transition
Gary Nathan Gartenberg
2000
Silat tales: narrative representations of martial culture in the Malay/Indonesian archipelago
Julie Shackford-Bradley
2000
Autobiographical fictions: Indonesian women’s writing from the nationalist period
Lecturer, Department of International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Kristi Lynn Wiley
2000
Aghātiyā Karmas: agents of embodiment in Jainism
Luis Arnold González-Reimann
1998
The Mahābhārata and the Yugas: India’s great epic and the Hindu system of world ages
Allan Mott Keislar
1998
Search for the Bhuśuṇḍi-rāmāyaṇa: one text or many?: the Ādi-rāmāyaṇa, the Bhusuṇḍī- rāmāyaṇa, and the Rāmāyan̄a-mahā-mālā
John Howard Mock
1998
The discursive construction of reality in the Wakhi community of Northern Pakistan
Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan
1998
Hosting the Divine: the Kōlam as ritual, art and ecology in Tamil Nadu, India
Stephen Arod Shirreffs
1998
The twisting staff: strategy, structure and genre in the Malay Muslim court literary tradition
Communications, Office of the Registrar, Stanford University
Jacqueline Aquino Siapno
1997
The politics of gender, Islam and the nation-state in Aceh, Indonesia: a historical analysis of power, co-optation and resistance
Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
Vesna Acimovic Wallace
1995
The inner Kālacakratantra: a Buddhist tantric view of the individual
Norma Elaine Craddock
1994
Anthills, split mothers, and sacrifice: conceptions of female power in the Māriyamman tradition
Ginette Ishimatsu
1994
Ritual texts, authority, and practice in contemporary Śiva Temples in Tamil Nadu
Karen Sri Kartomi Thomas
1994
Tradition and modern Indonesian theatre
Freelance Writer
Joseph Schaller
1993
The poet Ravidăs: a study in Sant devotionalism
Charles Esmond Pain
1992
The teachings of Gorakhnath: an annotated translation of a Hatha yoga text in Old Hindi
Jane Singh
1990
Echoes of revolution: the role of literature in the Gadar movement
Linda Ruth Feldman
1989
Removing the curse: a study of women characters in the fiction of Rajender Singh Bedi
James Darrell Ryan
1985
The Cīvakacintāmaṇi in historical perspective
Sylvia Christine Tiwon
1985
Breaking the spell: tradition and Indonesian poets of the 1930’s
Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Armand Frasca
1984
The Terukkūttu: ritual theater of Tamilnadu
Wayne Edward Surdam
1984
South Indian Śaiva rites of initiation: The Dīkṣāvidhi of Aghoraśivācārya’s Kriyākramadyotikā
Henry Saul Heifetz
1983
Issues of literary translation from Sanskrit and Tamil
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
1983
Shell working industries of the Indus Civilization: an archaeological and ethnographic perspective
Vikuosa Nienu
1983
The prehistoric archaeology and human ecology of Nagaland
Vinayaka Parameshvara Bhatta
1980
Theory of verbal cognition
Stuart Hart Blackburn
1980
Performance as paradigm: the Tamil bow song tradition
Lynne Hansen
1980
Learning and forgetting a second language: the acquisition, loss and reacquisition of Hindi-Urdu negative structures by English-speaking children
Richard Stanton Kennedy
1980
Public voices, private voices: Manikkoti, nationalism and the development of the Tamil short story, 1914-1947
Sally J. Sutherland Goldman
1979
Sukrācārya the demons’ priest: aspects of character development in Sanskrit mythological literature
Kathryn Gay Hansen
1978
Phanishwarnath Renu : the integration of rural and urban consciousness in the modern Hindi novel
Judy Ann Jastram
1975
Three chapters from the Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra: a critical edition of the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts from the youth Sudhana’s visits to the Bhikṣus Meghaśrī, Sāgaramegha, and Supratiṣṭita, with English translation and commentary
Kenneth E. Bryant
1974
Poems to the child-god : structures and strategies in the poetry of Sūrdās
Barbara Daly Metcalf
1974
The reformist ulama: Muslim religious leadership in India, 1860-1900