Faculty | South Asia Institute

SAI Faculty

In addition to SAI’s steering committee, there are many other faculty across all of the different schools at Harvard who teach courses or conduct research on South Asia. Listed below are many of the faculty at Harvard who have either taught a course about South Asia or conducted research on the region.

For a complete list of Harvard faculty by research area, please visit Harvard Worldwide.

Charles Clements

Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Adjunct Lecturer, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Profile

Claudine Gay

Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University Department of GovernmentProfile

Cynthia Fowler

Lecturer, Harvard Extension School and Associate Professor of Art, Emmanuel CollegeProfile

David Bloom

Chair, Department of Global Health and Population;
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, HSPHProfile

David Barron

Honorable S. William Green Professor of Public Law, Harvard Law School Profile

Cheryl Giles

Francis Greenwood Peabody Professor of the Practice in Pastoral Care and Counseling, Harvard Divinity SchoolProfile

Amy Bard

Lecturer on Sanskrit and Indian Studies

Asad Ahmed

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology: Social Anthropology ProgramProfile

SHAHAB AHMED

Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Committee on the Study of Religion and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Ali Asani

Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and CivilizationsProfile

Peter Berman

Professor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and Economics
Department of Global Health and Population
Harvard School of Public HealthProfile

HOMI BHABHA

Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, FAS;
Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard UniversityProfile

SUGATA BOSE

Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, FAS
Profile

JOHN BRISCOE

Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, HSPH;
Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, SEASProfile

NICHOLAS BURNS

Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, HKSProfile

David Canning

Professor of Economics and International Health, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPHProfile

FRANCIS X. CLOONEY, S.J.

Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology and Director of the Center for the Study of World ReligionsProfile

Christopher Duggan

Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition, HSPHProfile

DIANA ECK

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, FAS;
Member of the Faculty of Divinity, HDS;
Chair, Department of Sanskrit & Indian StudiesProfile

ERICA FIELD

Associate Professor, Department of EconomicsProfile

GITA GOPINATH

Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, FASProfile

JANET GYATSO

Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, HDSProfile

Charles Hallisey

Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, HDSProfile

LAKSHMI IYER

Associate Professor of Business Administration, HBSProfile

Tarun Khanna

Director of the South Asia Institute &
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, HBSProfile

Bing Wang

Adjunct Associate Professor in Real Estate and the Built Environment, Harvard Graduate School of DesignProfile

Anthony Saich

Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy SchoolProfile

Alina Payne

Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Faculty of Arts and SciencesProfile

Antoine Picon

G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes), Harvard Graduate School of DesignProfile

Christopher Queen

Lecturer in Extension, Harvard UniversityProfile

Charles Maier

Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and ScienceProfile

C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky

Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and EthnologyProfile

Aldo Musachhio

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolProfile

Alexander Keyssar

Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolProfile

Afsaneh Najambadi

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard UniversityProfile

Asim Khwaja

Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, HKSProfile

Smita Lahiri

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology: Social Anthropology Program, FASProfile

Jennifer Leaning

FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH;
Associate Professor of Medicine, HMSProfile

Richard Meadow

Director of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory at the Peabody Museum; Senior-Lecturer on Anthropology, FAS; Project Director of HARP, the Harappa Archaeological Research Project.Profile HARP

Rahul Mehrotra

Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, GSDProfile

Anne Monius

Professor of South Asian Religions, HDSProfile

Venkatesh Murthy

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard UniversityProfile

Venkatesh Narayanamurti

Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy SchoolProfile

Robert Paarlberg

Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolProfile

Krishna G. Palepu

Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for International Development, HBSProfile

Rohini Pande

Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, HKSProfile

Parimal G. Patil

Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian StudiesProfile

Srinath Reddy

Bernard Lown Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular HealthProfile

Peter Rogers

Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, SEASProfile

Amartya Sen

Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Department of Economics, FASProfile

Prerna Singh

Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, FASWebsite

Christopher Stone

Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice, Faculty Director, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Program in Criminal Justice Policy and ManagementProfile

SV Subramanian

Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, HSPHProfile

Leonard van der Kuijp

Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, FASProfile

Adelheid Voskuhl

Associate Professor of the History of ScienceProfile

Walter Willett

Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition; Chair, Department of NutritionLink

Michael Witzel

Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, FASProfile

Richard Wolf

Professor of Music, Department of Music: Ethnomusicology, FASProfile