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Educational History: UC Berkeley PhD, 2015 UC Berkeley MA, 2008 University of Tennessee, Knoxville BA, 2005 Research Interests: Luther Obrock is a Sanskritist. He is interested in the literary and cultural history of second millennium South Asia, particularly the production of Sanskrit literature during the Sultanate period….

Rahul Parson received an MA and PhD in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, with a specialization in Modern Hindi literature. Before returning to the Berkeley in 2021, he served as an Assistant Professor of Hindi and Urdu at the University…

Education PhD, Cornell University BA, Tufts University Research Interests Peter Zinoman is Chairman of the History Department at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is the author of the Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 (2001) and Vietnamese Colonial Republican: The Political…

Education Ph.D. University of Hamburg, 1993 M.A. University of Hamburg, 1988 Research Interests Alexander von Rospatt is Professor for Buddhist and South Asian Studies, and Director of the Group in Buddhist Studies. He specializes in the doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, and in Newar Buddhism,…

Education Ph.D.  South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1985 M.A. Stanford University, 1978 Research interests Sylvia Tiwon teaches literature, gender, oral and cultural studies of Southeast Asia with a focus on Indonesia. Her areas of interest include national and pre-national literatures, oral…

Education Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (Sociology) 1993 Curriculum Vitae   Research Interests Professor Raka Ray holds a joint appointment in Sociology and SSEAS. Her areas of interest include gender and feminist theory, social movements, and relations between dominant and subaltern groups in India. Her current…

Education Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (Oriental Studies), 1971 B.A. Columbia College, 1964 Research interests Robert Goldman is the William and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit and India Studies.  He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and has taught and…

Education: Ph.D. Duke University M.A. University of Cambridge B.A. Oberlin College Research interests: Munis D. Faruqui is a historian. His focus is on the Muslim experience in South Asia, especially during the Mughal period. His books include Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 (Cambridge, 2012), Expanding Frontiers in…

Penny Edwards is on sabbatical in 2022-23 to work on the book projects Ephemeral Angkor, a cinematic and literary history of twentieth century Cambodia, and Kindred Spirits, a group biography of four women. She is grateful for the award of a Humanities Research Fellowship from the…

Education: M.A. and Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2002 B.A. Marlboro College, 1993 Research interests: Jacob Dalton works on tantric ritual, Nyingma religious history, and the Dunhuang manuscripts.  He is co-author of Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British…