South Asia

Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD

Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD

Public Health Researcher and Educator

public health, social equity, women’s health, global politics, social determinants of health, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, integrative health, holistic health practices, yoga, meditation, indigenous systems of health, health policy,

Sebastian Prange, PhD

Sebastian Prange, PhD

Assistant Professor

History, maritime trade, Indian Ocean, India, piracy, Islam

Mark Turin, PhD

Mark Turin, PhD

Associate Professor

Himalaya, Nepal, First Nations, indigenous, anthropology, linguistics, endangered languages, digital, archives, museums, Bhutan, India, Tibet, technology

Tara Mayer, PhD

Tara Mayer, PhD

Instructor

Global history of fashion, clothing, material culture, and identity, colonial South Asian history, constructions of Britishness, Indo-European commodity exchanges, clothing and other forms of material culture, Orientalist portraiture, empire and aesthetic influence

Sara Shneiderman, PhD

Sara Shneiderman, PhD

Associate Professor

Himalaya, Nepal, India, Tibet, social and cultural impacts of disaster and disaster response, migration and citizenship, democratization and secularization, political and social change, ethnicity and religion, inequality and poverty, affirmative action, Indigenous peoples,

Adam Jones

Adam Jones

Professor

Human rights, gender studies, genocide studies, crimes against humanity, media and political transition

Adheesh Sathaye

Associate Professor of Sanskrit Literature and South Asian Folklore

Sanskrit literature, ancient India, Asian folklore, digital humanities, manuscripts, Hinduism, caste, Hindu mythology, Sanskrit theater, Sanskrit poetry

M.V. Ramana, PhD

M.V. Ramana, PhD

Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Affairs

Professor

Nuclear energy, nuclear disarmament, nuclear reactors, small modular reactors, economics of nuclear power, energy in India, nuclear weapons in India, radioactive waste, nuclear accidents

Rajesh Vijayaraghavan

Assistant Professor

Accounting and risk management in financial institutions, disclosure, corporate governance and performance measurement, corporate finance, applications of machine learning

Anne Murphy, PhD

Associate Professor

Co-Director, Centre for India and South Asia Research

Punjabi Studies, Punjabi Canadian histories and cultural production, South Asian studies, South Asia, Punjab, Pakistan, India, Punjabi language, Punjabi diaspora, Sikh studies, Sikh diaspora, South Asian religions

Anil Shrestha

Lecturer/Research Coordinator

Conservation, development, climate change, Himalayas

Dr. Dagmar Schwerk

Dr. Dagmar Schwerk

Khyentse Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Tibetan Buddhist Studies

Tibetan and Bhutanese Buddhism, modernity and religion, Himalayas, Bhutan, Buddhist ethics, secularity, religion and politics in Bhutan, Tibet, Buddhist philosophy, nation-building, identity building,