India

Chan Arun-Pina

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Queer urban geographies; Trans theory; student housing; Home; art-based research

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Preet S. Aulakh

Professor of Strategy and International Business and
Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business, Schulich School of Business, York University

Asian business systems; comparative state capitalism; emerging markets; Asian business groups

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Umme Hani Huzefa Bagdadi

Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Art History & Visual Culture, York University

Indigenous art of India; pre-colonial and colonial Indian art and history; global contemporary art

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Arpita Bajpeyi

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Dance, York University

South Asia; India; kathak; dance; gender; caste; performance; ethnography; research creation; nationalism; decolonizing methodologies; embodied histories

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Himani Bannerji

Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Department of Sociology, York University

Anti-racist feminism; Marxism; critical cultural theories; historical sociology; class formation; women; India; South Asian Diaspora

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D. Mitra Barua

Research Fellow (2020–21), ACLS/Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies

Buddhism in diaspora; religious diversity and multiculturalism; religious majority-minority dynamics; ethno-religious nationalism(s); Bangladesh-India-Myanmar border region

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Ranu Basu

Associate Professor of Geography, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Geographies of marginality; diversity and social justice in cities; power, space and activism; sub/urban/altern cosmopolitanism; critical geographies of education; post-colonial geographies; spatial methodologies; anti-imperialism; subalterity and education in Cuba, India and Canada

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Alyssa Brierley

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University

Public interest litigation; non-governmental organizations; development; India

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Kabita Chakraborty

Assistant Professor, Children's Studies Programme, York University

Youth culture in South and Southeast Asia; youth migration in Asia; sexual and reproductive health of young people in Asia; India; Malaysia; Bangladesh

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Shraddha Chatterjee

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University

India; citizenship; nationalism; subjectivity; queer theory; South Asian studies

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Soma Chatterjee

Associate Professor, School of Social Work, York University

Migration and mobility; sovereignty and borders; labour market integration of skilled immigrants; international education migration

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Raju J. Das

Professor of Geography, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Marxist theory; political economy of development; state-society relations; social movements; social-cultural norms of the working class; agricultural and industrial production under neoliberal capitalism; politics of the Right and of the Left; India

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Josephine Francis Xavier

Doctoral Student, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University

South Asia; India; fathers; childbearing period (pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum); gender; immigrant; diaspora

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Vedanth Sachdeva Govi

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Queer desire; intellectual property rights; India

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Khem Guragain

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University

Postcolonial; caste; Dalit; Adivasi; tribal; indigenous; subaltern; South Asia; nation-state

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Shubhra Gururani

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University

Social histories and cultural politics of gender, nature, place and science; postcolonial environments; India

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Anindo Hazra

Course Director, York University

India; South Asia; South Asian diaspora; queer literature; queer theory; postcolonialism; deconstruction; globalization; Human Rights and the Arts; Global Asia

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Salman Hussain

Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, York University
Sexuality Studies Visiting Scholar, York University

Human rights and social movements; gender and sexuality studies; postcolonial theory; political violence and terror; law and decolonization

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Aqeel Ihsan

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University

South Asia; South Asian diaspora; immigration and refugee issues; partition; Pakistan; India

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Ilan Kapoor

Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University

Critical development studies; postcolonial studies/politics; participatory development; democracy; ideology critique; celebrity humanitarianism; psychoanalytic Marxism; India; Pakistan

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Ali Kazimi

Associate Professor, Department of Cinema & Media Arts, York University

Race; migration; indignity; history; memory; emerging and cutting-edge digital image technologies; South Asian Diaspora; India

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Radhika Mongia

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University

History; law; political theory; global modern; India

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Khyati Nagar

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Visual culture of science; science, art and print culture in the Indian subcontinent; India; South Asian Arts and Culture; Hindi-Urdu

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Rajat Nayyar

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Theatre and Performance Studies, York University

Vocality; everyday resistance; collaborative filmmaking; performative spaces; folklore; decolonization

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Shobna Nijhawan

Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University

Hindi public sphere; Hindi and Urdu literature; Hindi, Urdu and English women's periodicals; theories of gender and nationalism; Ayurveda and allopathy in Hindi fiction and Hindi medical periodicals; technology enhanced learning; India

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Nalini Persram

Associate Professor, Department of Social Science

Governance; international relations; social and political thought; postcolonialism and moving beyond Western political theory; consciousness and somatics; gender; poverty; subjectivity

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Jay Ramasubramanyam

Assistant Professor, Law and Society Program, York University

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Jarren Richards

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Political economy; transnational capitalism; development economics; agrarian transition; industrialization; resistance; nature-society relations; dialectical materialism

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Janet Rubinoff

Department of History, York University

Fisheries development; fisherwomen in markets; backwater fish farming; globalization and marine fisheries management; India; South Asia

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Trichy Sankaran

Professor Emeritus, Department of Music, York University

Carnatic music; Indian dance compositions; South Indian classical drumming; Konnakkol; India

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Aparna Sengupta

Master’s student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Disaster anthropology; anthropology of policy and bureaucracy; Indigenous communities and knowledge; India; environmental management; information-communication technology (ICT); cartographic mapping; Geographic Informon System (GIS)

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Reena Shadaan

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies

Environmental justice; environmental health; data justice; occupational health; reproductive justice

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Jagteshwar Singh Sohi

Doctoral student, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

Environmental law and policy; environmental justice; tribal; India

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Evnur Taran

Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Development Studies, York University

Global South-South development relations; new regional powers; BRICS; Bhutan; sustainability of development projects; critical socio-political and spiritual ecology; GNH, sustainable consumption; circular economy

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Derek Verbakel

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University

Militarism; (in)security; conflict; India; Israel; transnational; nationalism; violence

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Julie Vig

Assistant Professor, Humanities, Religious Studies, and South Asian Cultures, York University

The Early Modern in South Asia; Punjabi and Brajbhasha literature; comparative religion; Gender, sexuality and religion; Sikh women in the diaspora; Queer studies

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Bernard Wolf

Professor Emeritus, Economics, Schulich School of Business, York University
Associate Director, IMBA Program, Schulich School of Business, York University

International trade and finance; multinational enterprises; strategic alliances; economic integration; trade/investment liberalization; East Asia; China; Korea; Japan

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Harshita Yalamarty

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University

Critical transnational feminist and postcolonial theories; women’s movements in India; gendered citizenship practices; religious communities in India; migration and marriage practices; South Asian diaspora

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