Members
About Our Members
COSAS members are University of Chicago faculty members engaged in significant research, publication and teaching related to the study of South and Southeast Asia. As of 2021-22, the Committee has sixty-six members. COSAS members represent approximately eighteen degree-granting departments and programs across the university. This is one of the largest concentrations of faculty working on Southern Asia at any major research university. Members meet regularly to plan and implement programming and academic programs to enhance the study of Southern Asia at the University.
Elena Bashir
Senior Lecturer and COSAS Professor Emerita, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Kavi Bhalla
Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and Affiliated Faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy
Philip V. Bohlman
Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities
Mark Philip Bradley
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of International History and the College
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
Elizabeth Chatterjee
Assistant Professor of Environmental History and the College
Sanghamitra Das
Inaugural Critical Caste Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Anthropology and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago.
Thibaut d’Hubert
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Southern Asian Languages and Civilizations
Wendy Doniger
Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Chair in History of Religions
Sascha Ebeling
Deputy Dean of the Humanities, Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Comparative Literature, and The College
Philip Engblom
Senior Lecturer and COSAS Professor Emeritus, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
N. Govindarajan
Assistant Instructional Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Julie Hanlon
Sr. Analyst in Learning Technology, University of Chicago Professional Education
Smruthi Bala Kannan
Smruthi Bala Kannan’s research explores entanglements between environmental concerns and human health in young...
Matthew T. Kapstein
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School
John Kelly
Christian W. Mackauer Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago
Alan L. Kolata
Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
Romeena Kureishy
Assistant Instructional Professor of Urdu in South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Sujata Mahajan
Assistant Instructional Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Anup Malani
Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine
McKim Marriott
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
William Mazzarella
Neukom Family Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
Member Achievement: Michele Friedner, Professor and Chair in the Department of Comparative Human Development
Michele Friedner, Professor and Chair in the Department of Comparative Human Development, is one of four to be...
Member Achievement: Paul Staniland, COSAS member and Professor of Political Science
Congratulations are in order for our very own Professor Paul Staniland! Professor Staniland’s article, Stabilizing...
Constantine V. Nakassis
Constantine V. Nakassis is a linguistic anthropologist with interests in semiotics; mass media; film theory;...
Karma Ngodup
Associate Instructional Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ralph Nicholas
William Rainey Harper Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
Andrew Ollett
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
