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.

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

Smruthi Bala Kannan

Smruthi Bala Kannan’s research explores entanglements between environmental concerns and human health in young...

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

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 Wedemeyer

Associate Professor of the History of Religions; Associate Faculty in South Asian Languages and Civilizations; also in the College

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

Norman Zide

Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and South Asian Languages and Civilizations