AFFILIATED FACULTY
E. Annamalai
Annamalai has been a Visiting Professor of Tamil at the MacMillan Center since September 2004. He teaches Tamil language courses at different levels as well as courses on political and public-cultural dimensions of language in India (in Anthropology), on the structure of the Tamil language (in Linguistics) and on literatures of Tamil and other South India languages in translation (in Literature). He formerly served as the Director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore and is currently the Secretary – General of the International Association of Tamil Research. He has been a research professor or fellow at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo; International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Evolutionary Anthropology, Nijmegen and Leipzig and The University of Melbourne and worked on and conducted seminars on grammatical and socio-political aspects of the languages Indian languages. He chairs the editorial board of the Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil and the data bank of Tamil writings that form the basis of the dictionary. He is interested in linguistic and cultural diversity and is a member of the Board of Governors of Terralingua, an international non-profit organization that promotes study and maintenance of bio-cultural diversity.
email: annamalai@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/macmillan/southasia/annamalai.htm
Michelle Addington
Michelle Addington is Associate Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Prior to teaching at Yale, she taught at Harvard University for ten years and before that at Temple University and Philadelphia University. Her background includes work at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, where she developed structural data for composite materials and designed components for unmanned spacecraft. Prof. Addington then spent a decade as a process design and power plant engineer as well as a manufacturing supervisor at DuPont, and after studying architecture, she was an architectural associate at a firm based in Philadelphia. She researches discrete systems and technology transfer, and she serves as an adviser on energy and sustainability for many organizations, including the Department of Energy and the AIA. Her chapters and articles on energy, environmental systems, lighting, and materials have appeared in many books and journals and she recently co-authored Smart Materials and Technologies for the Architecture and Design Professions.
Shameem Black
Shameem Black is Assistant Professor in the English Department. Her research and teaching address questions of globalization in contemporary literature. She works on fiction from North America, South Asia, Africa, and Europe, with particular attention to South Asian and Asian American literature. Her forthcoming book on contemporary fiction explores how novels from different parts of the world try to represent socially diverse peoples and places without stereotyping, idealizing, or exoticizing them. Her current book project explores the problem of reconciliation after mass conflict in fiction from the 1990s and 2000s. Her undergraduate course include Fiction Without Borders, Postcolonial Literature and Globalization (senior seminar), Directed Studies: Literature, The European Literary Tradition, Introduction to American Literature, Literature of the Middle Passage Dr. Black has a B.A. in History from Yale and a Ph.D in English from Stanford University.
email: shameem.black@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/english/profiles/black.html
John Bernard Bate
Bernard Bate is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology. He focuses on Tamil South Asia, language, politics, gender and the historical ethnography of language. His first book, Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic (Columbia University Press, due 2009), examines political and literary oratory in the contexts of its production in Madurai, Tamilnadu. His current project explores the emergence of Tamil oratory – from the Protestant sermon to political speeches – and its relationship to the production of a Tamil public sphere. Bate teaches a variety of courses in the anthropology of language and in south Asian area studies focusing on gender, politics, media, semeiotic and phenomenology including ‘Language and the Public Sphere,’ ‘Poetics and Performance,’ ‘Oratory and Rhetoric,’ ‘Gender/Media/India,’ ‘Language and Gender in Cultural Anthropology,’ and ‘South Asian Nationalisms.’ He has a PhD from the University of Chicago.
email: bernard.bate@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/anthro/people/bbate.html
Harry Blair
Harry Blair, Associate Department Chair, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Political Science. At Yale he has been teaching senior seminars in Promoting Democracy in Developing Countries and World Food Issues. Previously he has taught at Bucknell, Colgate, Cornell and Rutgers Universities. His research interests currently focus on democratization in developing countries, particularly on civil society and decentralization. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Journal of Development Studies, and World Development among others.
email: harry.blair@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/polisci/people/hblair.html
William R. Burch
William R. Burch is Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Natural Resource Management and Professor at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Professor Burch has held research and management positions with the USDA Forest Service, USAID, and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. From 1984 to 1996, he was retained by the National Park Service in a research position. His work on wildland recreation behavior was among the earliest, and it has expanded to include parks, biosphere reserves, and ecotourist regions in rural and urban areas in Asia, South America, and Europe, as well as in North America. His recent work on protected areas has been in Nepal, Bhutan, and the parks and open spaces of Baltimore. Professor Burch is principal investigator of a six-year monitoring and evaluation project on the $26 million restoration of Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park system. He conducted some of the original work on community/social forestry systems, which continues with work in Nepal, Thailand, China, and inner cities of the United States. His work in institutional development has included technical training and higher education curriculum development in South and Southeast Asia.
email: william.burch@yale.edu
more: https://environment.yale.edu/people/223-William-R.-Burch/parent:faculty/
Carol Carpenter
Carol Carpenter is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist in Natural Resource Social Science and an Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology. Dr. Carpenter’s teaching and research interests focus on theories of social ecology, social aspects of sustainable development and conservation, and gender in agrarian and ecological systems. She spent four years in Indonesia engaged in household and community-level research on rituals and social networks. She then spent four years in Pakistan working as a development consultant, primarily on social forestry issues, for USAID, the World Bank, and the Asia Foundation, among others. She has held teaching positions at Syracuse University, the University of Hawaii, and Hawaii-Pacific University, and a research position at the East-West Center. Her current interests involve the invisibility of women’s economic activities in agrarian households and the implications of this invisibility for sustainable development. She is a fellow of Calhoun College. She has a B.A. from SUNY Binghamton; and M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University
email: carol.carpenter@yale.edu
more: http://environment.yale.edu/people/234-Carol-Carpenter/parent:faculty/
Geetanjali Singh Chanda
Geetanjali Singh Chanda is a senior lecturer in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University, where she teaches courses on globalization, autobiographies, family, cultural identity, popular culture, international feminisms and postcolonial India. Her book, Indian Women in the House of Fiction (Zubaan), was published in May 2008. Geetanjali received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Hong Kong University, where she also taught courses in the Programme in American Studies. She received her Master’s degree from George Washington University and taught at Gettysburg College. She has spoken at international fora and published widely on notions of home, family, and gender in Indian English literature in US and international publications. Her research interests include popular culture and feminist and trans-cultural pedagogy.
email: geetanjali.chanda@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/wgss/faculty.html
Jacob P. Dalton
Jacob P. Dalton is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, specializing in Tibetan Buddhist Studies. His research focuses on the development of the Buddhist tantras and developments in tantric ritual technologies in early medieval India and later Tibetan history. His dissertation traced the vicissitudes of a single text specific to the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, from its composition in the mid-ninth century to its role in present day Tibetan exile communities. After completing his Ph.D., he spent three years working under a post-doc at the International Dunhuang Project based at the British Library. During these years he co-authored a catalogue under the title Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library (Brill, 2007). He has written a number of articles on his discoveries in this area, and is now working on two books, one on the role of violence in the Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism, and the other on the ritual history of early tantric Buddhism as seen through the eyes of the Dunhuang manuscripts. Other interests include the history of the Rnying ma school in Tibet, particularly during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
email: jacob.dalton@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/religiousstudies/facultypages/dalton.html
Ashwini Deo
Ashwini Deo, Assistant professor of Linguistics, works on language change and its implications for theories of natural language, in the context of the Indo-Aryan language family. Her PhD thesis (Stanford University, 2006) examines some literate and non-literate Indo- Aryan languages in order to trace the trajectory of changes in the verbal system. She has conducted fieldwork on languages spoken in the Bhili-Khandeshi dialect continuum in Central India – Ahirani, Pawri, Bhili, and Konkana and is engaged in on-going research on these languages. She also holds an advanced degree in Sanskrit from Pune, India and has worked on tense-aspect and case-marking in Sanskrit and Prakrit. Her broader interests include Sanskrit metrical verse and its organization and the structure of Paninian grammar – the world’s oldest grammatical tradition.
email: ashwini.deo@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/linguist/faculty/deo.html
Ravi Dhar
Ravi Dhar is the George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing and director of the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management. He also has an affiliated appointment as professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology, Yale University. He is an expert in consumer behavior and branding, marketing management, and marketing strategy. He has consulted to companies in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, high tech, and luxury goods. His research involves using psychological and economic principles to investigate fundamental aspects about the manner in which preferences are formed and constructed in order to understand and predict consumer behavior in the marketplace. His work has been mentioned in Business Week, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, USA Today, and other popular media. He has been a visiting professor at HEC Graduate School of Management in Paris, at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and at the Business Schools at Stanford and New York University.
email: ravi.dhar@yale.edu
more: https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/ravi-dhar
Michael R. Dove
Michael R. Dove earned his Ph.D. in anthropology at Stanford University. He is the Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology, Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Anthropology in the Peabody Museum, and Co-Coordinator of the joint doctoral degree program between the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Anthropology Department at Yale University. His research focuses on the environmental relations of local communities in less-developed countries, especially in South and Southeast Asia. His most recent books are Conserving Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia (coedited with P. Sajise and A. Doolittle, Yale Southeast Asia Program 2005) and Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader (coedited with C. Carpenter, Wiley-Blackwell 2007), and Southeast Asian Grasslands: Understanding a Folk Landscape (editor, New York Botanical Gardens Press 2008). He is currently completing books on the folk dimensions of conservation in Southeast Asia (coedited with P.E. Sajise and A. Doolittle, Duke University Press) and on the historic participation of Bornean tribal societies in global commodity production (Yale University Press).
email: michael.dove@yale.edu
more: https://environment.yale.edu/people/254-Michael-R.-Dove/
Hugh Flick
Hugh Flick is a Lecturer in the Religious Studies Department and the J. Jerry Inskeep Dean of Silliman College. He specializes in Indian narrative traditions, especially the Indian Epics. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1988, he taught at Harvard University. He is the author of Carrying Enemies on Your Shoulder: Indian Folk Wisdom in Tibet. Work in progress includes translations and commentaries on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, the Pancatantra, and the Vikramaditya tradition. He is a member of the South Asian Studies Council.
email: hugh.flick@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/religiousstudies/facultypages/flick.html
Katherine Good
Katherine Good is a Hindi Lector at Yale. Prior to this position, Katherine lived and studied extensively in India and attained her Masters and undergraduate degrees in South Asian Studies from Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley respectively. She has a background in Bollywood films and has also created a documentary on “Eve-teasing” (public sexual harassment in India). In addition to Hindi, Katherine has a background in Urdu, Farsi, Arabic and Spanish. Outside the classroom she hosts her own radio show on Yale radio and www.kathbombay.com. She is a professional turntablist and has been featured in Scratch Magazine and has deejayed for several Yale events.
email: katherine.good@yale.edu
Sara Suleri Goodyear Sara Suleri Goodyear is a Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in the English Department. Her fields of interest are 19th- and 20th-century English literature, Postcolonial literatures, cultural criticism, and Urdu poetry; and includes Romantic and Victorian poetry (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats; Arnold, Swinburne, Pre-Raphaelites). She also works on Edmund Burke. Her special concerns include postcolonial literatures and theory, contemporary cultural criticism, literature and law. Suleri Goodyear is the author of Meatless Days (1989) and The Rhetoric of English India (1992). She was a founding editor of The Yale Journal of Criticism, and serves on the editorial boards of YJC, The Yale Review, and Transition.
email: sara.goodyear@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/english/profiles/goodyear.html
Phyllis Granoff
Phyllis Granoff is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Religious Studies. Her current research includes work on the origins of puranic Hinduism and the development of image worship in Indian religions, a study of pilgrimage in medieval India, particularly in Jainism, and a study of a medieval Indian dramatist and poetic theorist. She is also working on Jain and Buddhist monastic rules and systems of authority in medieval Indian law codes. She has done research in all of the classical religions of India–Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and has also published articles on Indian art and literature. Her interests include contemporary Indian literature and she has published translations of short stories from Bengali and Oriya. She currently edits the Journal of Indian Philosophy. Her recent publications include Images in Asian Religions: Texts and Context, edited with Koichi Shinohara and soon to appear from the University of British Columbia Press, and Pilgrims, Patrons and Place, Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions, also edited with Koichi Shinohara, published from the same press in 2003. She is currently guest curator for an exhibition of Jain art at the Rubin Museum, New York. The exhibition will open in September, 2009. Professor Granoff has been part of the Yale faculty since 2004. She previously taught at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and has held visiting positions at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Berkeley, and Harvard.
email: phyllis.granoff@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/religiousstudies/facultypages/granoff.html
Stanley Insler
Stanley Insler, Chairman of the Department of Linguistics at Yale University, 1978-1989, is a world-renowned Gathic scholar. His translation of the Gathas is widely considered to be one of the most current and definitive works on the subject. He was educated at Columbia, Yale, the University of Tubingen, and the University of Madras. He has taught at Yale since 1963, where he presently holds the position of Salisbury Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology. He has lectured and published widely on subjects dealing with the ancient languages and texts of India and Iran, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, The American Oriental Society, the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, the German Oriental Society and the French Oriental Society, among others.
email: stanley.insler@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/linguist/faculty/insler.html
Seema Khurana
Seema Khurana, Senior Lector from 2001 to the present. Courses taught include Elementary Hindi, Intermediate Hindi, Advanced Hindi, Accelerated Hindi and Hindi Literature.
email: seema.khurana@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/linguist/faculty/khurana.html
Karuna Mantena
Karuna Mantena is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. She received a PhD from Harvard University in 2003 and has previously taught at Cornell University. Her research interests include the history of modern political thought, modern social theory, the intellectual history of empire, the theory and history of imperialism, South Asian politics and history, and theories of race and culture. She teaches courses on Indian politics, empire and political thought, and History and Politics in the Directed Studies Program. She is currently completing her first book entitled Alibis of Empire: Social Theory and the Ideologies of Late Imperialism (Princeton, forthcoming).
email: karuna.mantena@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/polisci/people/kmantena.html
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Mushfiq Mobarak Assistant Professor of Economics in the Yale School of Management. He is a development economist with interests in political economy and environmental issues. He joined the Yale faculty in 2007 with previous work experience at the World Bank, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and at the International Monetary Fund. He has several ongoing field research projects in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Brazil, and his current research interests include the functioning of marriage markets in developing countries, the contributions of foreign students in the United States, and how to induce people in developing countries to adopt new environmental and health improving technologies. He is currently advising several PhD Economics candidates working on development issues, and he won the 2006 Most Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award at the University of Colorado. Professor Mobarak received his PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park.
email: ahmed.mobarak@yale.edu
more: https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/ahmed-mushfiq-mobarak
Mridu Rai
Mridu Rai is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. Her doctoral research focused on the problem of religion and politics in the making of protest in modern Kashmir between the 1840s and the 1940s, culminating in her 2004 book, Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights and the History of Kashmir. Dr. Rai’s current research turns to the region of Bihar, to explore the relationships between caste, territory, region and nation as they evolved from the period of British colonial rule into the postcolonial era. She was educated at Delhi University; the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and Columbia University, where she received a PhD in modern south Asian history.
email: mridu.rai@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/history/faculty/rai.html
Gustav Ranis
Gustav Ranis is Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale University. He was Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies from 1995 to 2003, a Carnegie Corporation Scholar from 2004 to 2006, Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale from 1967 to 1975, Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy at USAID from 1965 to 1967, and Director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics from 1958 to 1961. Professor Ranis has more than 20 books and 300 articles on theoretical and policy-related issues of development to his credit. His research interests include adjustment and liberalization sequences; balanced growth; the political economy of LDC policy change; decentralization and development, growth and human development.
email: gustav.ranis@yale.edu
more: www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/ranis.htm
Kishwar Rizvi
Kishwar Rizvi teaches the history of Islamic art and architecture as well as seminars on modern architecture in the Middle East and South Asia. Her primary research is on representations of religious and imperial authority in the art and architecture of Safavid Iran. She has also written on issues of gender, nationalism and religious identity in the contemporary art and architecture of Iran and Pakistan. She is completing her book, The Safavid Dynastic Shrine: Architecture, piety and power in 16th and 17th-century Iran. Another book, co-edited with Sandy Isenstadt, Modernism and the Middle East: Politics of the built environment (Washington University Press, 2008) was awarded a Graham Foundation publication grant. Rizvi has also been awarded a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for research on the 1605 Safavid Shahnama (Book of Kings) at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. She teaches undergraduate introductory surveys on Islamic art and architecture, as well as seminars on pilgrimage, gender, and representations of kingship. Her graduate courses focus on issues in modernism and the Middle East; Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal art and architecture; and a new research project on the cultural and political significance of the documentary survey in Europe and the Middle East during the 16-20th centuries.
email: kishwar.rizvi@yale.edu
more: arthistory.yale.edu/faculty/faculty/faculty_rizvi.html
Mark Rosenzweig
Mark Rosenzweig is the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and Director, Economic Growth Center at the Department of Economics. His research interests include causes and consequences of economic development and international migration.
email: mark.rosenzweig@yale.edu
more: www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/rosenzweig.htm
T. Paul Schultz
T. Paul Schultz is Malcolm K. Brachman Professor Emeritus of Economics. His research interests are schooling, health, and mobility in development; income distribution and endogenous household composition and gender inequalities. His teaching fields include Microeconomics of individual and household behavior, Labor and health economics, and income distribution.
email: paul.schultz@yale.edu
more: www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/schultz.htm
Tamara Sears
Tamara Sears joins the faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art beginning Spring 2009. She has previously taught at New York University and Florida State University. Her research interests include South Asian art and architecture, ritual and sacred space, asceticism and monasticism in early-medieval India. She is a recipient of the J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Research Fellowship; Scott Opler Emerging Scholar Fellowship from Society of Architectural Historians and Fulbright-Hays DDRA. Dr. Sears has a PhD in the History of Art from University of Pennsylvania in 2004 and a BA from Wesleyan University in 1996.
email: tamara.sears@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/yalecollege/publications/ycps/chapter_iv/history_of_art.html
Koichi Shinohara
Koichi Shinohara works primarily on Buddhism in East Asia. Before coming to Yale in 2004 he taught at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. He has written widely on Chinese monastic biographies, with a focus on the works of a famous historian and a vinaya specialist Daoxuan (596-677) and his collaborator Daoshi (dates unknown). Daoshi was the compiler of the Fayuan zhulin, an encyclopedic anthology of scriptural passages and Chinese Buddhist miracle stories, which Professor Shinohara is in the process of translating into English. Through the study of these biographies as a distinct type of religious literature, He became interested in sacred places and the stories told about them. Daoxuan’s writings on monastic practices also opened doors to unexpected readings of Chinese Buddhist miracle stories. More recently, Professor Shinohara has been studying Japanese biographical literature and stories associated with esoteric deities. This material is written in Chinese for readers familiar with Chinese Buddhist sources. Although today this material is studied mostly by scholars who specialize in Japanese Buddhism, it belongs to a larger class of Buddhist writing in East Asia as a whole. The stories told in these Japanese sources need to be read with as much attention to their parallels in Chinese collections as to their immediate Japanese context.
email: koichi.shinohara@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/religiousstudies/facultypages/shinohara.html
Kalyanakrishnan (Shivi) Sivaramakrishnan
Kalyanakrishnan (Shivi) Sivaramakrishnan is Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Co-Director, Program in Agrarian Studies; and Chair, South Asian Studies Council, in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. With Professor Michael Dove, he coordinates the combined PhD Program in Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental Studies. Prof. Sivaramakrishnan’s research interests span environmental history, political anthropology, cultural geography, development studies, and science studies. He has published widely in the leading journals of all these disciplines and inter-disciplinary fields, with a regional focus on south Asia, especially India.
email: k.sivaramakrishnan@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/anthro/people/ksivaramakrishnan.html
T. N. Srinivasan
T. N. Srinivasan is Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University. Formerly a Professor, and later Research Professor, at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi (1964-1977), he has taught at numerous universities in the US. His research interests include International Trade, Development, Agricultural Economics and Microeconomic Theory. He recently authored Federalism and Economic Reform: International Perspectives, with Jessica Seddon Wallack, Cambridge UP, 2006 as well as Reintegrating India with the World Economy with Suresh D. Tendulkar (Washington: Institute for International Economics, 2003) and edited the volume Frontiers in Applied General Equilibrium Modeling: Essays in Honor of Herbert Scarf (Cambridge University Press, 2005) with Timothy J. Kehoe and John Whalley and Trade, Finance and Investment in South Asia (New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2001). He is also the author of Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998). He is a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He was named Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2003 and was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award of the Government of India.
email: t.srinivasan@yale.edu
more: www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/srinivasan.htm
K. Sudhir
Professor K. Sudhir is Professor of Marketing at the School of Management and Director of the Yale China India Market Insights Program. His research focuses on gaining market insights by analyzing consumer and firm actions through econometric modeling. As Director of the China India Consumer Insights Program, he is currently focused on research on consumers in emerging markets. By bringing together researchers from disciplines such as economics, psychology and sociology, the program seeks to advance a holistic understanding of these markets and their evolution. Research issues of interest to the program will include consumption behavior, savings and investment behavior, decision-making in organizations, and the impact of India and China on the rest of the world. He has consulted for several Fortune 500 firms across many industries such as technology, financial services, entertainment and retailing, specializing in analyzing their internal data to obtain actionable market insights.
email: k.sudhir@yale.edu
more: www.som.yale.edu/faculty/sk389/
Shyam Sunder
Shyam Sunder is James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics, and Finance at the Yale School of Management; Professor in the Department of Economics; and Professor (Adjunct) at the Yale Law School. He is a renowned accounting theorist and experimental economist. His research contributions include financial reporting, dissemination of information in security markets, statistical theory of valuation and design of electronic markets. He is a pioneer in the fields of experimental finance and experimental macroeconomics. Sunder has published six books and more than 150 articles in the leading journals of accounting, economics and finance, as well as in popular media. He is a past president of the American Accounting Association and a winner of many research awards. Sunder’s current research includes the problem of structuring US and international accounting and auditing institutions to obtain a judicious and efficient balance between regulatory oversight and market competition. He is also faculty leader for the China/India International Experience program at the School of Management.
email: shyam.sunder@yale.edu
more: www.som.yale.edu/faculty/sunder/index.html
Sarah Weiss
Sarah Weiss holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from University of Rochester/Eastman School of Music and a Ph.D. in Musicology from New York University. Before joining Yale in 2005, she taught in the Departments of Music at the University of Sydney and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and was a visiting professor in the Department of Music at Harvard University. Working primarily with Asian performing arts, Weiss has addressed issues of gender, aesthetics, postcoloniality, and hybridity in both her writing and teaching. Her Spring 2009 courses are ‘Music and Empire’, exploring India/Britain and India/Southeast Asia connections, and ‘Gendering Musical Performance’. Sarah Weiss is a member of the Council for Southeast Asia Studies and is affiliated with the South Asian Council. She is also an active member on the Council of the Women’s Faculty Forum.
email: s.weiss@yale.edu
more: www.yale.edu/yalemus/people/faculty.html#weiss