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Revanth Ukkalam, with a BA in History from Ashoka University and an MA in Sanskrit from Deccan College, is interested in social and cultural history of South Asia, travel through the ages, movement of texts and cultures, and historiography. He intends to study the allusions…

Sara Sohail is a Ph.D. Student at the Department of South and South East Asian Studies. Her research involves a study of the women of Mughal India, with a special focus on the 17th and 18th centuries. She is interested in issues of morality, normativity,…

Vardan Ratan Gupta is a Ph.D. student at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. He works on early medieval and medieval South Asia through the lens of spatial history, ritual practices, and literary traditions. His current research considers the history of Varanasi between…

Gaurav Banerjee is a graduate student of early modern South Asian history and is interested in studying the social history of bodily desire and discipline in the construction of ‘the ideal man’ in Mughal north India. Engaging with Persian and Urdu ethical and legal documents,…

Pronoy Chakraborty studies the literature attributed to the tantric Buddhist/ Śaiva Nātha mahāsiddhas (masters of magical powers) living in India between the 8th and the 12th centuries CE, and their iconographic depictions in Himalayan Buddhist art as well in the art of the Śaivite Nātha…

Thomas Kingston is a PhD student in South and Southeast Asian Studies. His primary academic interest lies in the histories of knowledge and power in the British-ruled parts of Southeast Asia in the late 17th to mid-20th centuries. More specific research interests within this broad…

Laurence worked on Tibetan Buddhist canons, Kangyurs and Tengyurs, in her MA program. Her current interest is in Tantric Buddhism, especially Indian Tantric Buddhism, and the tantric texts preserved in Dunhuang manuscripts. The language Laurence uses in her research is mainly Classical Tibetan and Chinese….

Solihin’s academic interest in the literary output of the Malay World builds on his training from the B.A. (Hons) in Literature that he received at Yale-NUS College. His thesis on the maverick Malaysian poet Salleh Ben Joned read Poems Sacred and Profane / Sajak-sajak Saleh…

Vincent Pacheco is a Ph.D. student in South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. His main areas of academic interest center on Southeast Asian cinema and literature, post-Marxist theory, and nineteenth-century gothic literature. Currently, his research aims to unpack Southeast Asian populism by looking…