CISAR brings together a diverse group of scholars working at UBC on different aspects of the Indian subcontinent. Faculty, researchers and students associated with CISAR represent a range of disciplines including Economics, History, Asian Studies, Political Science, Anthropology and Sociology and Resource Management. The Center's Visiting Fellows Program invites researchers from other universities and centers of learning to serve on a short-time basis.
Executive Committee Members
Milind Kandlikar, Associate Professor & Former Director
Milind Kandlikar is an Associate Professor appointed jointly in IAR and the Liu Institute of Global Issues at UBC. Prior to joining UBC, Dr. Kandlikar worked at Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University, from where has also received his PhD in the School of Engineering. From 2000-2002 he ran a software startup in California. His work focuses on public policy issues where science and technology play a central role. In his recent work he has applied his expertise to analyzing environmental problems in India. His current projects on India focus on urban air pollution control; regulation of agricultural biotechnology; ethics of clinical drug trials; and the impacts and mitigation of global climate change. He teaches courses on research methods for policy analysis; infrastructure planning and development; science technology and human development; and energy, environment and climate policy.
Dr. Kandlikar is also a faculty associate at the Institute for Resources,
Environment and Sustainability.
Email: milind.k@ubc.ca
Adheesh Sathaye, Assistant Professor
Adheesh Sathaye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at UBC. He received his doctorate in South and Southeast Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently researching early medieval Sanskrit drama, aesthetics, and narrative literature. His past work has been on Sanskrit epics, Marathi devotional performance traditions, and theories of textual production, performance, and folkloristics. Other interests include South Asian folklore, narrative theory, and cultural studies. Dr. Sathaye teaches courses on Indian mythology, Sanskrit literature, and Asian folklore.
Email: adheesh@interchange.ubc.ca
Anne Murphy, Assistant Professor and Chair in Punjabi Language, Literature and Sikh Studies
Dr. Murphy’s work focuses on the historical formation of religious communities in Punjab and nearby in South Asia, with particular but not exclusive attention to the Sikh tradition. Her current book project focuses on the articulation of memory and history within Sikh material representations from the eighteenth century to the present. Other research interests concern the formation of selfhood around memory and history, and around social service or “seva,” within Sikh and other South Asian religious traditions. She also works on folklore and oral traditions. Dr. Murphy teaches medieval and modern Indian history; comparative religion, and museum studies; and advanced reading courses and seminars in South Asian and Punjab & Sikh Studies.
Email: anne.murphy@ubc.ca
Mandakranta Bose, Professor Emerita & Former Director, Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
Mandakranta Bose is Professor Emerita at the Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research. She is also an Associate of the Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations. As the former director of the Centre, she remains active in various projects that the Centre pursues. In 2004, she was a visiting fellow at Somerville College, Oxford in the Spring Term and held an AHRB fellowship in Performance Studies at the University of Surrey at Roehampton. In 2006, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu studies, and is on the editorial board of the Oxford Journal of Hindu Studies. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of London, Dr. Bose is a Sanskritist with active research interests in the classical performing arts and religions of India, the Ramayana, and gender studies. In 2004 Oxford University Press brought out a volume of essays edited by her, titled The Ramayana Revisited. In 2007, Dr. Bose was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's Academy of Arts, Humanities and Sciences. Her critical edition of a 17th century Sanskrit musicological work has just been published (February 2009) by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi. Her most recent work, about to go to press with Routledge, UK for a 2009 publication date, is on the conception and representation of women in Hindu thought.
Email: mbose@interchange.ubc.ca
South Asia Faculty AT UBC
Ashok Aklujkar , Professor Emeritus, Department of Asian Studies (Sanskrit: linguistic theory, philosophy, poetics and pedagogy)
Siwan Anderson, Economics (Rural Institutions, the Role of Caste and Gender in Development)
http://www.econ.ubc.ca/asiwan/
Patrick Francois, Economics (Growth, the Role of Culture and Institutions in Development)
http://www.econ.ubc.ca/fpatrick/index.htm
Katherine Hacker, Art History
http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/facultyIntroDisplay.cfm?InstrID=6&FacultyID=1
Francesca Harlow, Asian Studies (History of pre-modern and early modern India)
http://www.asia.ubc.ca/index.php?id=5046
Vinay Kamat, Anthropology (Medical Anthropology)
http://www.anth.ubc.ca/Vinay_Kamat.1894.0.html
Ashok Kotwal, Economics (Indian economic reforms and their impact on poverty, governance structures in rural India)
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/akotwal/homepage.htm
Harjot Oberoi, Asian Studies (South Asian social and religious history)
http://www.asia.ubc.ca/index.php?id=5048
John Roosa, History (South Asia, Colonialism, Nationalism)
http://www.history.ubc.ca/people.php?people=74&usergroup=5
CentRE Associates
Vidyut Aklujkar
Hasanat Alamgir
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