Faculty Research

Faculty engaged in research or outreach in southern Asia include:

Sen Biswarup (Sen Bish)- bsen@uoregon.edu
Department: Journalism
Field: Mass communications, globalization and new media
Bio

Shankha Chakraborty- shankhac@uoregon.edu
Department: Economics
Field: Macroeconomics of economic development
Bio
Economics

Daniel Close-  dclose@uoregon.edu
Department: Family & Human Services
Bio
The Closes return from afar

Howard Davis- hdavis@uoregon.edu
Department: Architecture
Field: Social and cultural sustainability of cities
Bio
Department of Architecture Faculty Research

Scott Delancey- delancey@uoregon.edu
Department: Linguistics
Field: Languages of Northern India
Bio
Linguistics

Nilendra Deshpande- desh@uoregon.edu
Department: Physics
Field: Electroweat interactions, grand unification, and neutrino physics
Bio

James Earl-   jwearl@uoregon.edu
Department: English
Field: Ancient and medieval literature, the Bible, Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, psychoanalytic criticism, and the literature of India
Bio

Sangita Gopal  sgopal@uoregon.edu
Department: English
Field: South Asian cinema, postcolonial literature, gender, and globalizations
Bio

Lamia Karim- lamia@uoregon.edu
Department: Anthropology
Field: Globalization, gender, human rights, and social movements
Bio

Nagesh Murthy-  nmurthy@uoregon.edu
Department: Business
Field: Sustainable operations and supply chain management, new product development
Bio

Eric Pedersen- ericpederso@uoregon.edu
Department: Linguistics
Field: Psycholinguistics, semantics, typology, anthropological linguistics, Dravidian languages
Bio
Department of Linguistics

Marc Schlossberg- schlossb@uoregon.edu
Department: PPPM
Field: Sustainable transportation
Bio
PPPM

Surendra Subramani-  surendra@uoregon.edu
Department: Family & Human Services
Field: Colonialism and its impact in systems of education, the role of education in nation building, intellectual captivity and neocolonialism, national and cultural approaches to knowledge and society, cross national comparative education, and sociology of education in countries in the developing world
Bio
Sri Aurobindo Society

Arafaat Valiani-  valiani@uoregon.edu
Department: History
Field: History and politics of modern South Asia, historical sociology, space and place, violence and militancy

Anita Weiss-  aweiss@uoregon.edu
Department:International Studies
Field: South Asian comparative Muslim societies, gender and development
Bio
International Studies