Faculty List

James B. Brow

Professor

jbrow@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-0058  |  EPS 2.202

Education   

Ph.D., University of Washington

Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang

Professor

yvonne@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6036  |  WCH 4.124

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  Chinese film and literature

Kathryn G Hansen

Professor

kgh@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  475-6035  |  WCH 4.122

Education   

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley

Robert D King

Research Professor

rking@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-9016  |  CAL 507

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Interests

  Tribal linguistics and sociolinguistics of India

Gail Minault

Professor

gminault@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-475-7214  |  GAR 3.118

Education   

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Interests

  History of India and Pakistan; women's history, history of Islamic art

J. Patrick Olivelle

Professor

jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  512-475-6032  |  WCH 4.112

Education   

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Interests

  Sanskrit; Ancient Indian religious history

Stephen H Phillips

Professor

phillips@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-5080  |  WAG 301

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests

  Indian Philosophy; philosophy of religion; theory of value

Herman Van Olphen

Professor and Director of the Hindi-Urdu Flagship

hvo@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-475-6037  |  WCH 4.130

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Hindi Language and linguistics; language and nationalism

Itty Abraham

Associate Professor

ittya@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-232-7234  |  BAT 4.150

Education   

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Interests

  International relations, science and technology studies, and postcolonial theory

Kamran Asdar Ali

Associate Professor

asdar@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-7531, 471-3550  |  EPS 1.116

Education   

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Joel P. Brereton

Department Chair

jpb@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-475-6024  |  WCH 4.114

Education   

Ph.D., Yale University

Interests

  Sanskrit; Religious studies, Asian religions, Vedic studies

Lalitha Gopalan

Associate Professor

lalithagopalan@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-9374  |  CMA 6.174

S. Akbar Hyder

Associate Professor

shyder@mail.utexas.edu  |  475-6031  |  WCH 4.134

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests

  Islam in South Asia, Urdu language and literature, Aesthetics in South Asian and the Middle East.

Shanti Kumar

Associate Professor

shantikumar@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-3498  |  WWH 404

Education   

Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington

Janice Leoshko

Associate Professor

jleoshko@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-2581  |  DFA 2.110

Education   

Ph.D., Ohio State University

Interests

  South and Southeast Asian art history and Buddhist art

Huaiyin Li

Associate Professor

hli@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-475-7910  |  GAR 3.202

Education   

Ph.D., 2000, University of California, Los Angeles

Patricia Maclachlan

Associate Professor and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies

pmaclachlan@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-1724  |  BAT 3.150

Education   

Ph.D., Columbia University

Interests

  Consumerism in advanced industrial democracies, with a focus on Japan. Currently researching the reform of the Japanese postal system and the political power of the commissioned postmasters

Mark Metzler

Associate Professor

mmetzler@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-475-7262  |  GAR 3.404

Education   

Ph.D., 1998, University of California, Berkeley

Robert M Oppenheim

Associate Professor

rmo@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-7279  |  WCH 5.134

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  Korean culture and history

Martha A Selby

Associate Professor

ms@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  475-6040  |  WCH 5.114

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  Representations of women, birth, and disease in classical Indian medicine. Sanskrit poetry and poetics, Prakrit and Old Tamil poetry, and Sanskrit medical literature.

Cynthia M. Talbot

Associate Professor

ctalbot@mail.utexas.edu  |  475-7207  |  GAR 3.106

Education   

Ph.D., 1988, University of Wisconsin

Interests

  Classical and medieval history of South Asia

John W. Traphagan

Associate Professor

jtrap@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  512-232-0874  |  BUR 426

Education   

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Interests

  Medical anthropology, gender and aging, globalization, family and kinship, religion and ritual

Kamala Visweswaran

Associate Professor

kvis@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-8516  |  EPS 1.206

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests

  Women's movements in South Asia, human rights, Subaltern Studies, Transnational and Diaspora studies, feminist ethnography, and Indian literature in translation

Kirsten Cather

Assistant Professor

kcather@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-0031  |  WCH 5.104B

Education   

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Censorship of literature and film in modern Japan, modern adaptations of premodern Japanese literature.

Oliver Freiberger

Assistant Professor

ofreiberger@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8239  |  WCH 5.110

Education   

Ph.D., University of Göttingen, Germany

Interests

  Indian Buddhism, asceticism

Kaushik Ghosh

Assistant Professor

cayocan@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-0052  |  EPS 1.148

Education   

Ph.D., Princeton University

Roger Hart

Assistant Professor

rhart@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-7258  |  GAR 3.216

Education   

Ph.D., 1997, University of California, Los Angeles

Heather Hindman

Assistant Professor

h.hindman@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-1667  |  WCH 5.103

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  Critical development, expatriate communities, social theory, global labor and gender

Madhavi Mallapragada

Assisant Professor

madhavim@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-9239  |  CMA 6.172

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

David M Sena

Assistant Professor

davidsena@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-7965  |  WCH 5.104C

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  Classical Chinese and ancient China

Yun-Chiahn Sena

Assistant Professor

ysena@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 232-2319  |  DFA

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Nancy K. Stalker

Associate Professor

nancy.stalker@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-475-6044  |  WCH 5.128

Education   

Ph.D.. 2002, Stanford University

Interests

  20th-century cultural history, new religious movements, gender

Chien-hsin Tsai

Assistant Professor

chtsai@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-1302  |  WCH 5.105

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard University

Yukie Aida

Senior Lecturer

y.aida@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6042  |  WCH 5.124

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Japanese language pedagogy

Edeltraud Harzer

Senior Lecturer

harzer@uts.cc.utexas.edu  |  232-3575  |  WCH 5.135

Education   

Ph.D., University of Washington

Interests

  Sanskrit, Indian philosophy and literature

Camilla H Hsieh

Senior Lecturer

camilla@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6046  |  WCH 5.132

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas

Interests

  Chinese language pedagogy

Chiu-Mi Lai

Senior Lecturer

cmlai@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6054  |  WCH 5.112

Education   

Ph.D., University of Washington

Hoang H Ngo

Senior Lecturer

nhh10161@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6033  |  WCH 4.114

Education   

Ph.D., Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Jishnu Shankar

Senior Lecturer

jshankar@austin.utexas.edu  |  232-9143  |  HRH 3.102

Naoko Suito

Senior Lecturer

n.suito@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6043  |  WCH 5.126

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas

Interests

  Japanese language; Curriculum and Instruction

Wen-Hua Teng

Senior Lecturer

whteng@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6045  |  WCH 5.130

Education   

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Chinese language; Communicative strategy and listening comprehension testing

Yunjung Bae

Lecturer

yj_bae@mail.utexas.edu  |  475-6049  |  WCH 5.138

Elsa Chih-Wei Chang

Lecturer

elsa_cwc@yahoo.com  |  (512) 475-6041  |  WCH 5.116

Interests

  Chinese language

Jeanette C Chen

Lecturer

jeanettechen@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6041  |  WCH 5.116

Interests

  Chinese language

Chikako H Cooke

Lecturer

hirayama_cooke@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6046  |  WCH 5.132

Shahnaz Hassan

Lecturer

snzhasan@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-0304  |  HRH 3.102

Education   

B.A., University of the Punjab

Interests

  Urdu

Junko Hatanaka

Lecturer

jhatanaka@mail.utexas.edu  |  475-6042  |  WCH 5.124

Akemi Katayama

Lecturer

akataya@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-475-6043  |  WCH 5.126

Education   

MA, Portland State University

Interests

  Second language acquisition and language pedagogy

Afsar Mohammad

Lecturer

afsar@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-232-7921  |  HRH 3.102

Kyung Park

Lecturer

pkyung@mail.utexas.edu  |  475-6045  |  WCH 5.130

Education   

MA, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Sankaran Radhakrishnan

Senior Lecturer

radha@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-475-6048  |  WCH 5.136

Education   

Ph.D., Annamalai University

Interests

  Tamil language and literature; south Indian culture/history

Fei Ren

Lecturer

renf@mail.utexas.edu  |  475-6049  |  WCH 5.138

Interests

  Chinese language

Jeeyoung Shin

Lecturer

jshin@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6048  |  WCH 5.136

Education   

Ph. D, Indiana University

Midori Tanaka

Lecturer

midori@mail.utexas.edu  |  (512) 475-6033  |  WCH 4.114

Education   

MA, University of Oregon

Interests

  Japanese language and linguistics; pedagogy

Radhakrishnan Unnithan

Lecturer

unnithan@mail.utexas.edu  |  232-7104  |  WCH 3RD FL

Education   

Ph.D., University of Kerala

Interests

  Malayalam

Rupert Snell

Adjunct Professor

rupertsnell@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-7955  |  WCH 5.104A

Education   

Ph.D., University of London

Interests

  Poetics and aesthetics in pre-modern Hindi; poetry in Braj Bhasha and Awadhi dialects.

Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.

Professor Emeritus

rlh@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-7251  |  BAT 2.116

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  South Asia: domestic and international politics (India specialty) Comparative ethnic conflict British India: European images and artists' representation

Richard W Lariviere

Professor Emeritus

rwlariviere@ku.edu  |  471-4141  |  GEB 3.200

Interests

  Sanskrit

Rodney Moag

Associate Prof Emeritus

rmoag@mail.utexas.edu