Executive Committee

Academic Year 2025-26

Manan Ahmed (Professor, Department of History)

Allison E. Aitken (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy)

Akeel Bilgrami (Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy)

Syantani Chatterjee (Lecturer in Discipline, Department of Anthropology; MA Director, MA Program in South Asia Studies, South Asia Institute(ex officio))

Gary Hausman (South Asian Studies Librarian (ex officio))

Isabel Huacuja Alonso (Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies)

Subhashini Kaligotla (Barbara Stoler Miller Associate Professor in Indian and South Asian Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology)

Sudipta Kaviraj (Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies)

Mana Kia (Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies)

Karuna Mantena (Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science)

Rachel Fell McDermott (Professor of Religion, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College)

Shayoni Mitra (Senior Lecturer, Theatre Department, Barnard College)

Debashree Mukherjee (Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies)

Jonathan Peterson (Assistant Professor in Sanskrit and Pre-Modern South Asian Studies, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies).

Kalyani Ramnath (Assistant Professor, History Department)

Rakesh Ranjan (Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Hindi Urdu Program, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies)

Anupama Rao (Professor, History Department, and Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Barnard College)

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Associate Professor of Architecture, Barnard College)

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, and the History Department)

Gauri Viswanathan (Class of 1933 Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature)