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AFFILIATED FACULTY
Zaheer Baber
Professor
Research Interests
social theory, science, technology and society, comparative and historical sociology, race and racial projects, visual sociology
Ritu Birla
Department of History
Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies
Research Interests
modern South Asian history, capitalism and culture, law and critical legal studies, political economy and liberal governing, gendered/postcolonial approaches to social and political theory
Francis Cody
Asian Institute and Department of Anthropology, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
language, media, activism, publics and politics, Tamilnadu, India
Naisargi Dave
Department of Anthropology
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
activism, affect, sexuality and gender, ethics, social emergences, queer anthropology, intimacy, animal-human relationships, postcolonial cities; India
Deepali Dewan
Department of Art
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
nineteenth and twentieth-century visual culture of South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora
Arti Dhand
Department for the Study of Religion
Associate Professor
Research Interests
the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (Hindu epics), Hindu ethics, gender issues in Hinduism, religion and sexuality
Christoph Emmrich
Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Theravāda Buddhist and Digambara Jaina literature, Buddhist rituals for Newar girls in the Kathmandu Valley
Frances Garrett
Department for the Study of Religion
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department for the Study of Religion
Research Interests
Buddhist Studies, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism and medical traditions in Asia
Kanishka Goonewardena
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor and Director, Program in Planning
Research Interests
Critical Theory and Marxist philosophy, Architecture and urban planning, Colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, South Asia (Sri Lanka)
Kajri Jain
Department of Visual Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
popular image-cultures in India, with a focus on the interface between religion, visual culture and vernacular business cultures
Chelva Kanaganayakam
Department of English
Professor
Research Interests
Postcolonial Literature
Malavika Kasturi
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
women in South Asia; Hindu, colonial, and post-colonial law; popular religion and the public sphere under colonialism
Kundan Kumar
Department of Geography and Centre for the Environment
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
forests tenure, social movements and democracy; environmental governance and civil society in developing countries; climate justice
Ken MacDonald
Department of Geography, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation; new cultural ecologies of consumption; cultural identity in Northern Pakistan
Minelle Mahtani
Department of Geography, UTSC
Associate Professor
Research Interests
mixed race identity, media and mortality representation, racism in the academy
Heather Miller
Department of Anthropology, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
archaeology; prehistoric & historic complex societies; ancient technology; social organization; regional inter-connections
Libbie Mills
Department of Historical Studies, UTSC, and the Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
South Asia; Sanskrit language; early Tantra; building theory and installation procedure
Kanta Murali
Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
comparative political economy of development; Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy; state-business relations; labour policy
Rajashree Narayanareddy
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia
Srilata Raman
Department for the Study of Religion
Professor
Research Interests
Sanskrit and Tamil intellectual formations in South India from pre-colonial times to modernity, neo-Hinduism, Colonial Sainthood and modern Tamil literature
Katharine Rankin
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
modern South Asian history, capitalism and culture, law and critical legal studies, political economy and liberal governing, gendered/postcolonial approaches to social and political theory
Francis Cody
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
language, media, activism, publics and politics, Tamilnadu, India
Naisargi Dave
Department of Anthropology
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
activism, affect, sexuality and gender, ethics, social emergences, queer anthropology, intimacy, animal-human relationships, postcolonial cities; India
Deepali Dewan
Department of Art
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
nineteenth and twentieth-century visual culture of South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora
Arti Dhand
Department for the Study of Religion
Associate Professor
Research Interests
the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (Hindu epics), Hindu ethics, gender issues in Hinduism, religion and sexuality
Christoph Emmrich
Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Theravāda Buddhist and Digambara Jaina literature, Buddhist rituals for Newar girls in the Kathmandu Valley
Frances Garrett
Department for the Study of Religion
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department for the Study of Religion
Research Interests
Buddhist Studies, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism and medical traditions in Asia
Kanishka Goonewardena
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor and Director, Program in Planning
Research Interests
Critical Theory and Marxist philosophy, Architecture and urban planning, Colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, South Asia (Sri Lanka)
Kajri Jain
Department of Visual Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
popular image-cultures in India, with a focus on the interface between religion, visual culture and vernacular business cultures
Chelva Kanaganayakam
Department of English
Professor
Research Interests
Postcolonial Literature
Malavika Kasturi
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
women in South Asia; Hindu, colonial, and post-colonial law; popular religion and the public sphere under colonialism
Kundan Kumar
Department of Geography and Centre for the Environment
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
forests tenure, social movements and democracy; environmental governance and civil society in developing countries; climate justice
Ken MacDonald
Department of Geography, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation; new cultural ecologies of consumption; cultural identity in Northern Pakistan
Minelle Mahtani
Department of Geography, UTSC
Associate Professor
Research Interests
mixed race identity, media and mortality representation, racism in the academy
Heather Miller
Department of Anthropology, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
archaeology; prehistoric & historic complex societies; ancient technology; social organization; regional inter-connections
Libbie Mills
Department of Historical Studies, UTSC, and the Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
South Asia; Sanskrit language; early Tantra; building theory and installation procedure
Kanta Murali
Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
comparative political economy of development; Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy; state-business relations; labour policy
Rajashree Narayanareddy
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia
Srilata Raman
Department for the Study of Religion
Professor
Research Interests
Sanskrit and Tamil intellectual formations in South India from pre-colonial times to modernity, neo-Hinduism, Colonial Sainthood and modern Tamil literature
Katharine Rankin
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
activism, affect, sexuality and gender, ethics, social emergences, queer anthropology, intimacy, animal-human relationships, postcolonial cities; India
Deepali Dewan
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
nineteenth and twentieth-century visual culture of South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora
Arti Dhand
Department for the Study of Religion
Associate Professor
Research Interests
the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (Hindu epics), Hindu ethics, gender issues in Hinduism, religion and sexuality
Christoph Emmrich
Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Theravāda Buddhist and Digambara Jaina literature, Buddhist rituals for Newar girls in the Kathmandu Valley
Frances Garrett
Department for the Study of Religion
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department for the Study of Religion
Research Interests
Buddhist Studies, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism and medical traditions in Asia
Kanishka Goonewardena
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor and Director, Program in Planning
Research Interests
Critical Theory and Marxist philosophy, Architecture and urban planning, Colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, South Asia (Sri Lanka)
Kajri Jain
Department of Visual Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
popular image-cultures in India, with a focus on the interface between religion, visual culture and vernacular business cultures
Chelva Kanaganayakam
Department of English
Professor
Research Interests
Postcolonial Literature
Malavika Kasturi
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
women in South Asia; Hindu, colonial, and post-colonial law; popular religion and the public sphere under colonialism
Kundan Kumar
Department of Geography and Centre for the Environment
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
forests tenure, social movements and democracy; environmental governance and civil society in developing countries; climate justice
Ken MacDonald
Department of Geography, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation; new cultural ecologies of consumption; cultural identity in Northern Pakistan
Minelle Mahtani
Department of Geography, UTSC
Associate Professor
Research Interests
mixed race identity, media and mortality representation, racism in the academy
Heather Miller
Department of Anthropology, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
archaeology; prehistoric & historic complex societies; ancient technology; social organization; regional inter-connections
Libbie Mills
Department of Historical Studies, UTSC, and the Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
South Asia; Sanskrit language; early Tantra; building theory and installation procedure
Kanta Murali
Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
comparative political economy of development; Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy; state-business relations; labour policy
Rajashree Narayanareddy
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia
Srilata Raman
Department for the Study of Religion
Professor
Research Interests
Sanskrit and Tamil intellectual formations in South India from pre-colonial times to modernity, neo-Hinduism, Colonial Sainthood and modern Tamil literature
Katharine Rankin
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (Hindu epics), Hindu ethics, gender issues in Hinduism, religion and sexuality
Christoph Emmrich
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Theravāda Buddhist and Digambara Jaina literature, Buddhist rituals for Newar girls in the Kathmandu Valley
Frances Garrett
Department for the Study of Religion
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department for the Study of Religion
Research Interests
Buddhist Studies, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism and medical traditions in Asia
Kanishka Goonewardena
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor and Director, Program in Planning
Research Interests
Critical Theory and Marxist philosophy, Architecture and urban planning, Colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, South Asia (Sri Lanka)
Kajri Jain
Department of Visual Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
popular image-cultures in India, with a focus on the interface between religion, visual culture and vernacular business cultures
Chelva Kanaganayakam
Department of English
Professor
Research Interests
Postcolonial Literature
Malavika Kasturi
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
women in South Asia; Hindu, colonial, and post-colonial law; popular religion and the public sphere under colonialism
Kundan Kumar
Department of Geography and Centre for the Environment
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
forests tenure, social movements and democracy; environmental governance and civil society in developing countries; climate justice
Ken MacDonald
Department of Geography, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation; new cultural ecologies of consumption; cultural identity in Northern Pakistan
Minelle Mahtani
Department of Geography, UTSC
Associate Professor
Research Interests
mixed race identity, media and mortality representation, racism in the academy
Heather Miller
Department of Anthropology, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
archaeology; prehistoric & historic complex societies; ancient technology; social organization; regional inter-connections
Libbie Mills
Department of Historical Studies, UTSC, and the Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
South Asia; Sanskrit language; early Tantra; building theory and installation procedure
Kanta Murali
Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
comparative political economy of development; Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy; state-business relations; labour policy
Rajashree Narayanareddy
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia
Srilata Raman
Department for the Study of Religion
Professor
Research Interests
Sanskrit and Tamil intellectual formations in South India from pre-colonial times to modernity, neo-Hinduism, Colonial Sainthood and modern Tamil literature
Katharine Rankin
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Buddhist Studies, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism and medical traditions in Asia
Kanishka Goonewardena
Associate Professor and Director, Program in Planning
Research Interests
Critical Theory and Marxist philosophy, Architecture and urban planning, Colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, South Asia (Sri Lanka)
Kajri Jain
Department of Visual Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
popular image-cultures in India, with a focus on the interface between religion, visual culture and vernacular business cultures
Chelva Kanaganayakam
Department of English
Professor
Research Interests
Postcolonial Literature
Malavika Kasturi
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
women in South Asia; Hindu, colonial, and post-colonial law; popular religion and the public sphere under colonialism
Kundan Kumar
Department of Geography and Centre for the Environment
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
forests tenure, social movements and democracy; environmental governance and civil society in developing countries; climate justice
Ken MacDonald
Department of Geography, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation; new cultural ecologies of consumption; cultural identity in Northern Pakistan
Minelle Mahtani
Department of Geography, UTSC
Associate Professor
Research Interests
mixed race identity, media and mortality representation, racism in the academy
Heather Miller
Department of Anthropology, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
archaeology; prehistoric & historic complex societies; ancient technology; social organization; regional inter-connections
Libbie Mills
Department of Historical Studies, UTSC, and the Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
South Asia; Sanskrit language; early Tantra; building theory and installation procedure
Kanta Murali
Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
comparative political economy of development; Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy; state-business relations; labour policy
Rajashree Narayanareddy
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia
Srilata Raman
Department for the Study of Religion
Professor
Research Interests
Sanskrit and Tamil intellectual formations in South India from pre-colonial times to modernity, neo-Hinduism, Colonial Sainthood and modern Tamil literature
Katharine Rankin
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
popular image-cultures in India, with a focus on the interface between religion, visual culture and vernacular business cultures
Chelva Kanaganayakam
Professor
Research Interests
Postcolonial Literature
Malavika Kasturi
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
women in South Asia; Hindu, colonial, and post-colonial law; popular religion and the public sphere under colonialism
Kundan Kumar
Department of Geography and Centre for the Environment
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
forests tenure, social movements and democracy; environmental governance and civil society in developing countries; climate justice
Ken MacDonald
Department of Geography, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation; new cultural ecologies of consumption; cultural identity in Northern Pakistan
Minelle Mahtani
Department of Geography, UTSC
Associate Professor
Research Interests
mixed race identity, media and mortality representation, racism in the academy
Heather Miller
Department of Anthropology, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
archaeology; prehistoric & historic complex societies; ancient technology; social organization; regional inter-connections
Libbie Mills
Department of Historical Studies, UTSC, and the Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
South Asia; Sanskrit language; early Tantra; building theory and installation procedure
Kanta Murali
Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
comparative political economy of development; Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy; state-business relations; labour policy
Rajashree Narayanareddy
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia
Srilata Raman
Department for the Study of Religion
Professor
Research Interests
Sanskrit and Tamil intellectual formations in South India from pre-colonial times to modernity, neo-Hinduism, Colonial Sainthood and modern Tamil literature
Katharine Rankin
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
women in South Asia; Hindu, colonial, and post-colonial law; popular religion and the public sphere under colonialism
Kundan Kumar
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
forests tenure, social movements and democracy; environmental governance and civil society in developing countries; climate justice
Ken MacDonald
Department of Geography, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation; new cultural ecologies of consumption; cultural identity in Northern Pakistan
Minelle Mahtani
Department of Geography, UTSC
Associate Professor
Research Interests
mixed race identity, media and mortality representation, racism in the academy
Heather Miller
Department of Anthropology, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
archaeology; prehistoric & historic complex societies; ancient technology; social organization; regional inter-connections
Libbie Mills
Department of Historical Studies, UTSC, and the Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
South Asia; Sanskrit language; early Tantra; building theory and installation procedure
Kanta Murali
Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
comparative political economy of development; Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy; state-business relations; labour policy
Rajashree Narayanareddy
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia
Srilata Raman
Department for the Study of Religion
Professor
Research Interests
Sanskrit and Tamil intellectual formations in South India from pre-colonial times to modernity, neo-Hinduism, Colonial Sainthood and modern Tamil literature
Katharine Rankin
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation; new cultural ecologies of consumption; cultural identity in Northern Pakistan
Minelle Mahtani
Associate Professor
Research Interests
mixed race identity, media and mortality representation, racism in the academy
Heather Miller
Department of Anthropology, UTM
Associate Professor
Research Interests
archaeology; prehistoric & historic complex societies; ancient technology; social organization; regional inter-connections
Libbie Mills
Department of Historical Studies, UTSC, and the Department for the Study of Religion
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
South Asia; Sanskrit language; early Tantra; building theory and installation procedure
Kanta Murali
Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
comparative political economy of development; Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy; state-business relations; labour policy
Rajashree Narayanareddy
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia
Srilata Raman
Department for the Study of Religion
Professor
Research Interests
Sanskrit and Tamil intellectual formations in South India from pre-colonial times to modernity, neo-Hinduism, Colonial Sainthood and modern Tamil literature
Katharine Rankin
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
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archaeology; prehistoric & historic complex societies; ancient technology; social organization; regional inter-connections
Libbie Mills
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
South Asia; Sanskrit language; early Tantra; building theory and installation procedure
Kanta Murali
Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
comparative political economy of development; Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy; state-business relations; labour policy
Rajashree Narayanareddy
Department of Geography and Program in Planning, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia
Srilata Raman
Department for the Study of Religion
Professor
Research Interests
Sanskrit and Tamil intellectual formations in South India from pre-colonial times to modernity, neo-Hinduism, Colonial Sainthood and modern Tamil literature
Katharine Rankin
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
comparative political economy of development; Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy; state-business relations; labour policy
geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia
Srilata Raman
Professor
Research Interests
Sanskrit and Tamil intellectual formations in South India from pre-colonial times to modernity, neo-Hinduism, Colonial Sainthood and modern Tamil literature
Katharine Rankin
Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Department for the Study of Religion, Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Politics of planning and development, feminist and critical theory, culture-economy articulations, diverse economies, comparative market population, ethnographic methods, South and Southeast Asia, Toronto
Ajay Rao
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Academic studies of South Asian religions; Sanskrit intellectual history; Sanskrit literature and poetics; and religion and aesthetics
Karen Ruffle
Department for the Study of Religion , Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Department of History, UTSC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Shi`ism, Islam and gender, Religion and sexuality, South Asia, Iran, religious ethnography, sainthood
Jayeeta Sharma
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
social and cultural History, ‘New Imperial’ history, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Studies, food history, labour history, South Asian Studies, race, gender and family History, transnational and diaspora Studies
Neera Singh
Faculty of Forestry
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Department of History
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
power, justice and equity pertaining to forest conservation and governance, community-based forest conservation, democratization of forest governance, and gender relations in environmental governance
Ashwini Tambe
Associate Professor
Research Interests
colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy
Shafique Virani
Department of Historical Studies, UTM
Associate Professor and Chair
Research Interests
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), and Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages
Unless indicated, all images copyright of and reproduced with the gernerous permission of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto