Visiting Faculty and Scholars

Visiting Scholars

2013-2014

Asiya Alam received her PhD in Spring 2013 from the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research focuses on the debates and discussions concerning family and marriage among Muslim communities in colonial north India from the late- nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. She will teach courses on modern South Asian History and Women and Islam in South Asia.

Kedar Kulkarni completed his PhD in Spring 2013 from the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He specializes in Marathi musical theater of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through which he examines larger themes of nationalism, popular culture, gender and class subjectivies. He will offer courses on Indian theater and cinema during the last century.

Rajashree Mazumder received her PhD in History at UCLA in Spring 2013. Her research examines Indian immigration to Burma from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. At Yale, she will teach a course on Indian Ocean history.

Sadia Saeed, (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology, Scholar of Pakistan), is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. Sadia received her PhD in sociology from University of Michigan in 2010. Her research focuses on intersections among nationalism, politics, law and religion in Pakistan. She is currently working on her book manuscript, provisionally titled Politics of Exclusion: Muslim Nationalism, State Formation and Legal Representations of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan, which examines the relationship between state formation, Islamist social movements and nationalist discourses in Pakistan through a focus on the shifting legal representations of the heterodox religious minority, the Ahmadiyya community. Her research has appeared in the journal Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism.

Stan Scott (Fall 2012) holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. Along with research interests that include the vocal music of North India, Bengali folk song, Irish traditional music, American folk music, and musical transmission and pedagogy, Stan is also accomplished as a vocalist and on the Indian harmonium, tabla, five-string banjo, and guitar. Stan’s dissertation is titled “Power and Delight: Vocal Training in North Indian Classical Music”. He will be a visiting faculty member with the Council in Spring 2012, when he will offer the course Indian Musical Traditions.