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.

Maanasa Raghavan

Assistant Professor of Human Genetics

Eléonore Rimbault

Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Laura Ring

Librarian for Southern Asia & Anthropology

John Schneider

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Anna Schultz

Associate Professor Music and the Humanities

Clinton Seely

Professor Emeritus of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Sabina Shaikh

Sabina Shaikh is a Senior Instructional Professor in the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization...

Richard A. Shweder

Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development in the Department of Comparative Human Development

Sunit Singh

Assistant Instructional Professor, Affiliate Faculty in History; Co-director, SOSC Core Writing Initiative

Paul Staniland

Associate Professor of Political Science and Faculty Chair of the Committee on International Relations (CIR)

Ulrike Stark

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College; Co-Director, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory

Lidia Szczepanik-Wojtczak

Instructional Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Sarah Pierce Taylor

Assistant Professor of Religion, Literature, and Visual Culture

Gary Tubb

Anupama and Guru Ramakrishnan Professor and Chair in South Asian Languages and Civilizations

James Vaughn

Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division; Affiliate Faculty in History

Anand Venkatkrishnan

Assistant Professor of Divinity

Christian K. Wedemeyer

Associate Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College,
Associate Faculty of Cinema & Media Studies and Comparative Human Development, and
Chair, Committee on Southern Asian Studies

Tyler Williams

Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Austin L. Wright

Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Harris School of Public Policy