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Sarah Atis
Turkish Literature and Folklore; Travel Writing; Women's Studies.
Erlin S.Barnard
Pedagogy Coordinator
Robert Bickner
Linguistics; Thai Language, Literature and Linguistics; Languages of Southeast Asia; Computer Assisted Language Instruction; Translation; Cross-cultural Adaptation.

Gudrun Bühnemann
Classical Indian Studies; Sanskrit language and literature; Hinduism; Indian Buddhism; Tantrism.
Preeti Chopra
Visual Culture Studies; Comparative Architectural and Urban Histories; South Asian Studies; Urban Development and Social Theory; Cultural Landscape Studies.
Donald R.Davis (on leave through Spring 2008)
Law & religion in medieval India; history of religions in South Asia; Malayalam language and literature; Dharmasastra literature; South Indian history

Vinay Dharwadker (on leave through Spring 2008)
Indian and South Asian literatures; Hindi, Marathi, Indian-English literatures; religious poetry, bhakti literature; poetry, poetics; fiction, narrative theory; colonialism, postcolonialism; translation studies; cultural studies; popular culture; modern theory; modernities, modernisms, globalization, cosmopolitanism.
Joseph Elder
Sociology of contemporary India; scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and backward classes in India; conflict and conflict management in South Asia; education and economic changes in South Asia; Gandhi and post-Gandhian movements; women's movements in South Asia.
Charles Hallisey(Resignation effective end of Spring 2008)
Buddhist Studies; Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia; Pali Language and Literature; Buddhist Ethics; Literature in Buddhist Culture.
Yaroslav Komarovski
Visiting Assistant Professor; Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhist thought and ritual systems, Indo-Tibetan Buddhist doctrinal systems, logic, and epistemology; diverse Buddhist interpretations of reality and related polemic issues; classical and modern Tibetan language.
Muhammad Memon
Islamic Studies; Modern Urdu Literature (fiction).
Ellen Rafferty
The development of Indonesian language and literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Varieties of Malay/Indonesian; Contemporary Indonesian literature; Second language acquisition and pedagogy, the development of materials for teaching of Indonesian language.
V. Narayana Rao (on extended leave)
Telugu language; Indian history, literature, folklore, and culture; Sanskrit literature.
Elizabeth Rohlman
Visiting Assistant Professor; narrative literature of South Asian religious traditions especially the purana and katha literature of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions.
Uli Schamiloglu
Central Asian Studies; Kazak, Tatar, Uzbek; historical and modern Turkic languages; Turkic philology; Turkic historical and comparative linguistics; medieval/modern social, economic, and intellectual history of Eurasia; cultural history of Central Asia.

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