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  • Aniket Aga Anthropology Ashoka University
    My interests span science & technology studies, agrarian studies and political anthropology. My dissertation research examined the science and politics of the ongoing controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops in India, especially in rural western Maharashtra.

  • Devkumar Ahire History Pune
    I have research interests in caste and linguistic histories; communalism and colonialism; religious and cultural studies, and Buddhist archaeology. I am currently writing my dissertation: "The Structure of Knowledge and Construction of Communalism in Colonial India, with Special Reference to Maharashtra."

  • Ashok Aklujkar Asian Studies Univ. of British Columbia (emeritus)

  • Rucha Ambikar Social & Cultural Anthropology Seattle Univ.
    Maharashtra, education, Hindutva, national identity, diaspora, technology

  • Leona Anderson Religious Studies Univ. of Regina (emerita)

  • Anjali Arondekar Feminist Studies California-Santa Cruz Link
    Arondekar's research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality, colonialism and historiography in South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Duke University Press, 2009; Orient Blackswan, India, 2010), winner of the 2010 Alan Bray Memorial Award from the Modern Language Association (MLA). She has published most recently in GLQ, Journal of Asian Studies, Interventions, Victorian Studies, Feminist Studies and The Journal of the History of Sexuality. Her second book, Margins of Desire: Sexuality, Historiography, South Asia, grows out of her interest in the figurations of sexuality, ethics and collectivity in colonial British and Portuguese India.

  • Donald Attwood Anthropology McGill Univ. (emeritus)
    My interest is in the history of rural Maharashtra in the 20th century, particularly as played out in eastern Pune district. My main publication was Raising Cane: The Political Economy of Sugar in Western India (1992), recently reissued by Routledge (Taylor & Francis) in eBook format. Much of my other work was done in collaboration with the late B.S. Baviskar, former Head of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics. Finding the Middle Path (Westview 1995) was our comparative study of cooperatives in rural India. Our most recent book was Inside-Outside: Two Views of Social Change in Rural India (Sage 2014), in which we considered how our early lives shaped our approaches to research.

  • Paul Axelrod Anthropology Ripon College (emeritus)

  • Prashant Bagad Philosophy, Literature IIT-Kanpur Link

  • Janakhi Bakhale History California-Berkeley Link

  • Nagnath Balte Marathi Pune University
    19th century language, history and culture; experimental Marathi theater; gender politics in and cultural contexts of Marathi theater

  • Amol N. Bankar Numismatics Independent Researcher Link
    I have research interests in Early medieval Maharashtra and Old Marathi. I am interested in Old Marathi literature, inscriptions.

  • Jayant Bapat Indology Monash University PubList

  • Mayuresh Bhadsalve Urban Studies Independent Researcher
    Research interests include governance, planning, politics, mass movements, film and food studies, history and heritage, diaspora, migration in the urban realm.

  • Sai Bhatawedekar Hindi/Urdu, Cross-cultural Studies Hawaii-Manoa
    My research includes cross-cultural (German-Indian) philosophy, theater and dance, and Hindi-Urdu language pedagogy. I have published on Vijay Tendulkar for the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature and am working on Brecht on Marathi theater (Pu. La. Deshpande and Tīn Paiśācā Tamāśā in particular).

  • Tarini Bedi Anthropology Univ of Illinois - Chicago Link

  • Nikhil Bellarykar History Independent Researcher Link
    I am working on primarily Marathi history as it is shown through 17th and 18th-century Dutch sources, including the documents of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company).

  • Judi Benade Information Systems Wisconsin

  • Véronique Bénéï Anthropology French Nat'l Centre for Scientific Research Link

  • Catherine Benton Religion Lake Forest College Link

  • Eric Lewis Beverley History SUNY-Stony Brook Link
    History of the Deccan in a connective and comparative framework. Hyderabad State and its legacies, especially the Marathwada region, Berar, and the borderlands between the Nizam's territories and Bombay Presidency. Also circuits connecting Hyderabad to Bombay/Mumbai city and the broader Indian Ocean world. I continue to explore the history of the Deccan through the histories of cities, transnational networks, law and crime, and borderlands.

  • Narayan Bhosale History U Mumbai
    I work on denotified nomadic tribes, especially in terms of language, culture, totem, folk culture, migration and location.

  • Prasad Bidaye English Humber College (Toronto)
    Postcolonial studies, representations of caste, bilingual writers (Dilip Chitre, Arun Kolatkar and Kiran Nagarkar), bhakti poetry and Marathi in literary translation

  • Lisa Björkman Urban & Public Affairs Louisville

  • Jeffrey Brackett Religion Ball State (emeritus)

  • Jo Brill S Asian Languages & Cultures Chicago
    I work on Sanskrit grammar and am interested in the histories of communities of grammarians in places like Pune and Satara.

  • Gudrun Bühnemann Religious Studies Wisconsin Link

  • Shefali Chandra History, Gender Studies Washington Univ. of St. Louis Link

  • Jessica Chandras Anthropology George Washington University
    Class, education, and language in Maharashtra, especially how students in Marathi and English language schools in Pune use Marathi, English, and Hindi, and the attitudes that frame the use of different languages in classrooms.

  • Ravinder Kaur Cheema History GN Khalsa College, U Mumbai
    Sikhs in Maharashtra, especially their histories, genealogies, legacies, and contributions.

  • Rashmi Condra History Nagpur
    Film studies and history, art history, numismatics, general history. My PhD topic is "The Caste System and the Reformist Role of Hindi Cinema - A Historical Analysis." I have undertaken short term projects on "Women in V. Shantaram Films" and "Transnational Hindi Cinema and Women's Conciousness in the Colonial Period."

  • Frank Conlon History Washington (emeritus)

  • Paul Courtright Religion Emory (emeritus)

  • Cathleen Cummings Art History Alabama-Birmingham Link

  • Madhura Damle Political Science Presidency University, Kolkata Link
    Politics of Language in Maharashtra, Modern Political Thought in Maharashtra. I am working on 'Print and Politics of Language in Maharashtra (1805-1920)' for my Ph.D.

  • Deepra Dandekar Anthropology, History Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin Link
    I have worked on the history and anthropology of ritual healing in Maharashtra and have been interested in gender and power hierarchies embedded therein to encompass the values and equations implicit within the entire health sector, especially the way in which it interacts with religion. I did my PhD jointly at Deccan College, Pune and the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg on childbirth goddesses and rituals of rural Maharashtra. Thereafter I worked in the public health sector of Maharashtra through the CSR division of corporate banking for developing training for community health workers at the ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth-Centre for Child Health and Nutrition, Pune.

  • Hemalata Dandekar City & Regional Planning Cal Poly Link

  • Abhay Datar Political Science People's College, Nanded
    My research interests include electoral politics in, and the political and intellectual history of modern Maharashtra.

  • Jacqueline Daukes Religion & Gender Independent Researcher Link
    My main area of interest is the Vārkarī female poet-sants. I was awarded my PhD in 2015 for a thesis that considered the attribution of women’s authorship in the construction of the Vārkarī sampradāya and contended that the presence of compositions attributed to women and caritras about women within the Vārkarī literary corpus exemplifies the viability of the householder path. In this context I translated over 150 abhangas, 88 of which are new translations, and translated the chapters pertaining to the lives of Janābāī and Kānhopātrā from Mahīpati’s Bhaktavijaya.

  • Dušan Deák Comparative Religions Comenius University, Bratislava

  • Ashwini Deo Linguistics Ohio State Link

  • Veena Deo English Hamline College

  • Madhuri Deshmukh English Oakton Community College

  • Madhav Deshpande Languages and Cultures Michigan (emeritus)

  • Prachi Deshpande History CSSS, Kolkata
    Social and cultural history of early modern and modern Maharashtra and India, especially practices of language, literature and historiography

  • Aparna Dharwadker English Wisconsin Link

  • Vinay Dharwadker Languages and Cultures Wisconsin Link

  • Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie History Univ. of the Western Cape
    My current research is on Indians in Cape Town, the vast majority of whom came from the Konkan areas of Maharastra and have maintained links with their villages.

  • Richard Eaton History Arizona (emeritus)

  • William Elison Religion California-Santa Barbara Link
    My work is centered on ethnographic research conducted in Mumbai among non-elite groups such as shantytown residents and adivasis. I am interested in slums, the relation of local deities to lived space in urban and suburban contexts, Bollywood (and the wooded areas the film industry physically occupies), government paperwork, and subaltern alternatives to the liberal model of modern citizenship.

  • Pär Eliasson Religion Uppsala University
    Linguistic and conceptual translation in the earliest Portuguese missionary scholarship on Marathi

  • Philip Engblom Committee on S Asian Studies Chicago (emeritus)
    Marathi language and literature and Marathi language pedagogy (up to advanced readings in all genres and periods but excluding Old Marathi) have been the principal areas of both my teaching and writing. I have focused primarily on the formative texts and contexts of Marathi Literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, contining to explore the question of what constitutes the adhunik (modern) in Marathi poetry. My translations from Marathi include works by Pandita Ramabai, Dilip Chitre, Arun Kolatkar, B. S. Mardhekar, P.S. Rege, Keshavsut, Kamal Desai, Gauri Deshpande and D.B. Mokashi.

  • Anne Feldhaus Religious Studies Arizona State (emerita) Link

  • Eric Ferrie Social Anthropology Independent Scholar
    I specialize in social anthropology and religion. My PhD research (Parix X Nanterre) involved an anthropological approach to Vithoba's cult and sant literature through religious practices and performances (kirtan, bhajan, pilgrimage etc.). Ongoing research includes social satire in bharud theater and modalities of divine presence and neo-hindu ecology of sacred groves.

  • Roy Fischel History SOAS, London

  • Marcia Frost Economics Wittenberg Univ. Link

  • Pankaj Ghate History Gogate Jogalekar College, Ratnagiri
    Currently working on the History of Konkan in the colonial period. Interested in the history of Konkan, colonialism in Western India, and the socio-political and intellectual history of Maharashtra.

  • Stewart Gordon Center for S. Asian Studies Michigan Link
    In the last decade my interests have broadened from Maharashtra and India to connected history across Asia. I've done recent articles or books on the environmental impacts of war in the Mughal period, trade networks of a smaller city in eighteenth century India, the major rivers of asia, the Asian history of chess, the cultural and trade connections between western Indian and the Middle East, and a group-developed database of Buddhist monasteries across Asia (1-1200). I've consulted on two History Channel Series.

  • Irina Glushkova Indology Russian Academy of Sciences

  • Sumit Guha History Texas-Austin Link

  • Prachi Gurjarpadhye-Kandheparkar Comparative Literature Independent Scholar Link
    I have published a book and accompanying anthology, Bringing Modernity Home: Marathi Literary Theory in the Nineteenth Century (Shimla: IIAS, 2014). Another monograph on Narayan Surve is in press with Sahitya Akademi.

  • Jessica Hackett Anthropology Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
    My PhD research deals with women's devotional practices in rural (western) Maharashtra and particularly their relationship with local deities related to the well-being of their children and families.

  • Saee Haldule-Bonvin South Asian Studies Heidelberg Link
    My doctoral research is a study of traditional as well as re-invigorated seed-networks in rural agrarian Maharashtra. My current research interests mainly include seed politics and their effects on farmer seed networks; issues of agrobiodiversity conservation and intellectual property rights (IPR); alternative agriculture movements and the tension between Food Security and Food Sovereignty unfolding across Asia

  • Douglas Haynes History Dartmouth Link

  • Mallory Hennigar Religion Syracuse Link
    My dissertation research focuses on people participating in Buddhist movements in Nagpur, including their transnational connections with Buddhist groups in the UK.

  • Peter E. Hook Linguistics Michigan (emeritus)
    Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics, typology, semantics, morpho-syntax, dialectology, lexicology

  • Pablo Holwitt Anthropology Münster Link
    I am interested in the study of urban spaces, conflict-analysis, law and development, identity-politics, ethnicity and religion/rituals. In my current project, I study redevelopment conflicts, civic activism and urban segregation in Mumbai.

  • Ute Hüsken Indology Heidelberg Link
    I do work on Stri Purohitas, esp. in the Pune and Bombay area, and am very interested in the field of female ritual and religious agency generally.

  • Suraj Jacob Economics Azim Premji University, Bangalore Link
    I am working on two projects involving Maharashtra: 1) developing case studies of development alternatives in Gadchiroli and elsewhere, and 2) on accountability and governance processes in education at the lower level of bureaucracy in parts of Nagpur Division nearby Madhya Pradesh districtss.

  • Daniel Jasper Sociology Moravian College Link

  • Ketaki Jaywant History Washington & Jefferson
    My Phd project explored how caste became a point of discussion in the works of nineteenth century thinkers in Maharashtra. I will explore the ways in which caste-relevant categories of knowledge production were discussed in reformist discourse in Maharashtra, which deployed ideas from enlightenment thought and indigenous intellectual traditions to assess circumstances in 19th-century western India.

  • Kalyani Jha Marathi Pune
    My interests are in gender and language in Marathi literature, culture, film, and songs.

  • Nirali Joshi Contemporary India King's College, London
    I am working on contemporary urban history, especially of the Mumbai Suburban Railway system.

  • Natasha S. K. Social Science Syracuse
    While my dissertation research is focussed on Uttarakhand, I am also conducting a study on distress migration into Bombay, focusing on climate change, labour and housing issues.

  • Sunila Kale Political Science Washington Link

  • Mary Fainsod Katzenstein Government Cornell Link

  • Sharon Kemp Anthropology Minnesota-Duluth (emerita)

  • Sachin Ketkar English Baroda Link
    My research interests include Marathi literary historiography, contemporary Marathi literature and culture, comparative Indian literatures and translation studies. I am a creative writer with two collections of poems in Marathi and I have extensively translated contemporary Marathi poetry into English. My current project is A Critical History of Marathi Literature which will be published in 2019-20.

  • Jon Keune Religious Studies Michigan State Link Link
    My main research has been on bhakti, caste, and the idea of equality, especially in Varkari hagiographical literature. I currently focus on transnational Buddhism and Ambedkarite migration to East Asia and other region.

  • Ravi Khangai History Ambedkar College, Fatikroy, Tripura Link
    I was awarded Ph.D. on the topic, 'The Bhakti Movement of Maharashtra' in 2007, and I recently wrote a paper on 'The Bhakti Movement and Maratha Nationalism'. My further interests include Marathi literature inspired by the Mahabharata, lower castes in the bhakti movement of Maharashtra, and women in the bhakti movement of Maharashtra.

  • Varada Khaladkar Archeology Deccan College
    My research interests include, but are not confined to, the proto- and early history of western Deccan.

  • Prashant Kidambi Modern History Leicester
    I am interested in the economic, social and political history of Maharashtra. I am particularly interested in the history of urbanization and the interplay between town and countryside in western India. My research has thus far focused on the social history of colonial Bombay, but I have increasingly begun to explore the city's links with the rest of Maharashtra.

  • Kedar Kulkarni Comparative Literature Flame University Link
    I am working on a book project about drama in the late 19th century, focusing primarily on the cities of Bombay and Pune, and Marathi language drama. My research interests beyond drama and performance include music, bhakti, acting and the body, and performance theory.

  • Shraddha Kumbhojkar History Univ. of Pune Link
    Shraddha Kumbhojkar teaches modern Indian history and historiography at the Savitribai Phule Pune University. Her doctoral work is published in the book Nationalism, Literature and Creation of Memory and she has edited the collection, 19th Century Maharashtra: A Reassessment. She is interested in historiography, memory studies, Sanskrit, and Dalit studies.

  • James Laine Religious Studies Macalaster College Link

  • Boyarin Larios Religious Studies Vienna Link
    As a scholar of contemporary religion, my approach combines cultural anthropology, religious studies, and historical philology. My research interests revolve around popular Hinduism, Hindu Nationalism, Yoga and Tantra, and Ethno-Indology as a research method. My open access book, Embodying the Vedas: Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra, deals with the traditional transmission of Vedic knowledge in its modern context. I am currently working on a project with urban street-shrines and have done preliminary fieldwork in Pune.

  • Jayant Lele Development Studies Queen's University, Canada (emeritus) Link

  • Spencer Leonard History Virginia

  • Rahul Magar History Pune Link
    Rahul's doctoral dissertation which deals with the Urban History of the medieval town of Burhanpur. His research interests include medieval and early modern Maharashtra, Urban History, and the History of science and technology in India.

  • Jim Masselos History Sydney (emeritus)

  • William Mazzarella Anthropology Chicago Link

  • Mary McGee Religious Studies Albright College

  • Karline McLain Religious Studies Bucknell Link

  • Laurie McMillin Rhetoric & Composition Oberlin College Link

  • Surinder Mehta Sociology Massachusetts (emeritus)

  • Benita Menezes Anthropology Johns Hopkins
    My research work in the last decade has focused on suburban and peri-urban areas in the Mumbai Metropolitan region and its adjacencies in western coastal Maharashtra.

  • Rupali Mokashi History RK Talreja College, Mumbai
    Archeological and epigraphical research in the medieval North Konkan and Deccan.

  • Rohini Mokashi-Punekar English IIT-Guwahati Link
    Postcolonial Studies and Translation, Marathi bhakti poetry and history of protest literature in Marathi, Phule and his works

  • Jeremy Morse History of Religion Independent Scholar
    Interests include the Datta Sampradaya, guru-devotion, early Marathi poetry, Sanskrit Gita materials, Sufism in India, the history of Indian bhakti, the worship of saints, the sant traditions of India

  • Muphid Mujawar History Delhi Univ.
    My M.Phil. thesis (Pune) was on "The Struggle for Sovereignty over Sea with special reference to Kanhoji Angre." I am now working on my dissertation, "Histories and Historical Fiction: Representations of 'Musalmans' in Maharashtra from the 18th to the Mid-20th Century."

  • Kaustubh Naik South Asian Studies Pennsylvania
    Kaustubh Naik has an MA and MPhil in Performance Studies from Ambedkar University and JNU, New Delhi respectively and is currently a doctoral candidate at UPenn's South Asian Studies department. He has previously worked on the theatre histories of Goa its implications on the Maharashtrawadi politics in 20th century Goa. His doctoral work focuses on the long duree histories of the Konkani language along the broader western coast.

  • Anjali Nerlekar Poetry & Literature Rutgers Link
    South Asian literature, Translation Studies, Modern Indian poetry, Modern Indian Book history, Indo-Caribbean literature.

  • Shantanu Nevrekar Anthropology Stanford
    I am a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at Stanford University. My research interests include capitalism, economic life, caste, community, credit/debt and ethics. My doctoral research examines how caste and community shape the imaginaries, ideologies, and practices of cooperative banking in small-town Western Maharashtra. Prior to Ph.D., I did an M.A. in Development Studies and an M.Phil. in Sociology from TISS, Mumbai and Delhi School of Economics respectively.

  • Rashna Nicholson English, Theatre Hong Kong Link
    I am currently working on the development of the Parsi Theatre in Bombay between 1853 to 1970.

  • Christian Novetzke Religion, International Studies Washington Link

  • John Noyce History of Spirituality Independent Researcher Link Books

  • Mitch Numark History California State, Sacramento

  • James Nye Library Chicago (emeritus)

  • Alok Oak History Leiden Link
    My primary area of research is colonial Maharashtra. In my PhD research (University of Leiden) I am working on the political ideas of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and contextualising them within the late 19th and early 20th centuries intellectual history of India. I have published an edited book (in Marathi) on Albert Camus. I also research on modern Global Intellectual History and India, bhakti saint-poetry and modern Hindu religious traditions.

  • Michihiro Ogawa History Tokyo

  • Shailaja Paik History Cincinnati Link
    Modern South Asia, Dalit Studies, Women, Gender, and feminism, Social and Political movements, Oral history

  • Swarali Paranjape Asia and Europe Heidelberg Link
    My PhD project focuses on the production of satire in Marathi literature during the high tide of British colonialism in India, i.e. the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century. Marathi colonial satire deals with not only the British Raj and its politics, but it also ridicules and attacks the anglicized Marathi people. This ongoing research demarcates the development of the literary mode of satire in modern Marathi literature and sheds light on the various socio-political themes in the satirical texts.

  • Prashant Pardeshi Linguistics NINJAL, Tokyo Link
    Recently my monograph on Marathi passive and causatives has been published from the Brill publishers.

  • Nazir Pathan Religious Studies SPDM College, Shirpur, Dist. Dhule
    My research interests are in Sufism and the comparative study of the Bhakti-Sufi connections in medieval Maharashtra and Maratha historiography.

  • Parimal Patil Sanskrit Harvard

  • Deepak Pawar Civics and Politics Mumbai Link
    Language Policy and Language Politics in Maharashtra are areas of my main areas of interest.

  • Liladhar Pendse Library California-Berkeley
    Turkic-Marathi Linguistic Exchange, 17th, 18th and 19th century Deccan. History of Maharashtra, and Portuguese Indias, Maharashtra's Nationalist Movements. Marathi speaking Muslims of Desh and Konkan

  • Prashant Historical Studies Jawaharlal Nehru Univ.
    I work on seventeenth and eighteenth century Maratha society in which I mainly deal with artisans known as Balutedars, status and positions of women and judiciary. How state regulated Maratha society especially positions and rights of artisans and women through using its institutions like judiciary.

  • Bharat Punjabi Geography Univ. of Western Ontario

  • Pronoy Rai Geography Portland State University Link
    My research interests are broadly in development and labor migration, agrarian studies, and the geographies of gender and sexuality. In Maharashtra, I have previously examined the micropolitics of access to food-based entitlements, and more recently, I have studied changes in rural social relations in migrant home communities resulting from the seasonal migration of historically marginalized rural landless laborers. I have been conducting long-term ethnographic research in Yavatmal district in Maharashtra since 2012.

  • Hemant Rajopadhye Indology, Religious Studies Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai
    Interests include socio-cultural history of Maharashtra and India, guru and sant worship, and Sanskrit, Pali, medieval and modern Marathi literature. Currently working toward a Ph.D. at the University of Göttingen, Germany, on the topic of guru devotion and ritual activism in modern Maharashtra.

  • Anupama Rao History Barnard College Link

  • Nikhil Rao History Wellesley College

  • Chaitra Redekar Political Science IISER-Pune Link
    I have a research interest in the political ideas in India with a focus on the intellectual traditions in modern Maharashtra. Gandhian intellectual tradition is my current area of work. My current focus is on exploring the Gandhism after Gandhi surrounding democracy, sexuality and food. My publications include Sane Guruji: Vyakti ani Vichar (Sadahana, 2020) and Gandhian Engagements with Capital: Perspectives on J.C. Kumarappa (Sage, 2019).

  • Kenneth X. Robbins Independent Researcher      PubList

  • Chetan Sahasrabuddhe Architecture Pune University
    Architecture in 18th-century Maharashtra

  • Varada Sambhus Political Science Jawaharlal Nehru University
    The title of my MPhil thesis was "The Debate Over Maharashtra Dharma: Views of M. G. Ranade, V. K. Rajwade and R. Bhagwat." For my PhD, I plan to work on bhakti movement in Maharashtra and its political implications.

  • Pankaj Samel Indology Independent Researcher Link
    Inscriptions, Ancient Indian History, Iconography, Manuscripts, and Rock-cut Caves and Temples

  • Natasha Sarkar History National Univ. of Singapore
    Although my current research interests focus on South Asian medical history, I am essentially drawn to the social history of medicine for it promises a deeper understanding of the relationship between disease, health, culture and society. Areas I should like to explore are South Asia’s rural and urban healthcare systems, colonial medical practice, gender and health, and comparative studies of responses to pandemics in Asia and the world.

  • Adheesh Sathaye Asian Studies Univ. of British Columbia Link

  • Laxman Satya History Lock Haven Univ.

  • Justin Scarimbolo Ethnomusicology Symbiosis

  • Anna Schultz Ethnomusicology Chicago Link
    Anna Schultz received a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois in 2004. Anna came to Stanford in 2010 after four years of teaching at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include the music of South Asia, music and nationalism, music and religious experience, Indo-Caribbean music, diaspora and migration, music transmission, Hindi film music, Jewish music in India, Bulgarian music, and country and bluegrass music.

  • Nabhojeet Sen History Bonn
    I am a doctoral researcher at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studiesm. My research focuses on punitive practices and labour regimes in precolonial and early colonial Western India, especially forms of coerced labour regimes such as bonded labour, corvee, slavery and convict labour. The project also looks at punitive practices and strategies in the transition from from the precolonial Maratha regime to that of early colonial British rule.

  • Bina Sengar History Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada Univ. Link

  • Aarti Sethi Anthropology UC-Berkeley
    I am currently working on contemporary agrarian transformation in Vidarbha, Maharashtra.

  • Hemant Shah Journalism Wisconsin Link

  • Juned Shaikh History California-Santa Cruz Link

  • Shuja Shakir Political Science BAMU, Aurangabad
    My area of interest is state politics with a focus on minority studies, including gender issues and Indian Muslims.

  • Kiran Shinde Architecture Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune

  • Rohini Shukla Religious Studies Columbia Link
    My primary research interest is gender and women's labor in early Marathi literature and Hinduism more broadly. Other research interests include B.R. Ambedkar's intellectual history, medieval Indian philosophy and hagiographies, gender and sexuality studies, and community formation.

  • Peter Simonič Anthropology Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia Link
    My focus at the moment is on the sugar industry in Maharashtra.

  • Binti Singh Urban Sociology Independent Researcher

  • Frederick Smith Religion Iowa Link

  • Pushkar Sohoni Art History IISER, Pune Link

  • Rakesh Solomon Theater Indiana (emeritus) Link

  • Walter Spink Art History Michigan (emeritus)

  • Sonja Stark-Wild Indology, Religious Studies Heidelberg

  • Priyanka Srivastava History Massachusetts-Amherst
    My research work centers on histories of labor, gender, and urbanism in colonial Bombay. My first book, The Well-Being of the Labor Force in Colonial Bombay: Discourses and Practices (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), explored the social history of textile workers through the lens of well-being. Presently, I am researching the history of non-factory and service-oriented wage labor in the cities of Bombay Presidency.

  • Rachel Sturman History Bowdoin College Link
    My current interests are focused on urban studies, cultural geography, law, and labor ethnography, as I work on the history of the construction industry in Mumbai/ Bombay since the early 20th c. I eventually hope to examine several infrastructural industries (including anitation and food) within the history of the city.

  • Santosh Suradkar History Gondwana University, Gadchiroli
    My Ph.D. dissertation (JNU, 2014) is entitled "Aspects of Nationalism and Untouchability 1885-1947" and focuses on the Bombay Presidency.

  • Clare Talwalker Anthropology California-Berkeley Link

  • Ashwini Tambe Women's Studies Maryland Link

  • Gary Tartakov Art History Iowa State (emeritus)

  • Vikramaditya Thakur Anthropology Delaware Link

  • Allen Thrasher Senior Reference Librarian Library of Congress (retired)
    Sanskrit, popular religion, magic, sociolinguistics.

  • Surajkumar Thube History Oxford
    My broad research outline deals with the Origins of Hindu Nationalism in Western Maharashtra.

  • Letizia Trinco Art & Archeology Independent Researcher
    In 2015 I obtained a PhD from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) with a dissertation entitled "Hindu funerary stones. A study of their iconography, function and variety as from the context of South-Eastern Maharashtra"

  • Gary Tubb Languages and Civilizations Chicago Link

  • Ananya Vajpeyi History CSDS, Delhi

  • Dominic Vendell History Exeter Link
    Social, cultural, and political history of 19th and 20th century Maharashtra, particularly the intersection of caste, economy, and governance; interests include the political economy of land and locality, practices of colonial governance, modern Marathi intellectual conceptions of the political, and the history of anti-caste critique.

  • Narendra Wagle History Toronto (emeritus)

  • Milind Wakankar English & Cultural Studies IIT-Delhi Link

  • Liza Weinstein Sociology & Anthropology Northeastern Link

  • Bernadette White Sociology Stanford
    I am currently preparing for fieldwork for my dissertation, which will be looking at the gender dynamics of the politicalization of farmer suicides in Vidarbha. In particular, I will be studying the impacts this has had for women and households, in terms of the fact that it is almost all men committing suicide, but at the same time, development organizations are aimed towards women engaged in farming. I am interested to connect with other scholars that do work in Vidarbha and on agricultural production.

  • Andre Wink History Wisconsin Link

  • Mike Youngblood Anthropology Independent Researcher

  • Yashwant Zagade Sociology TISS-Mumbai
    My interests focus on the study of caste, anti-caste movements and Navayana Buddhism. For my MPhil programme, I did a sociological study of the Mali caste. For my PhD dissertation now, I am examining contemporary anti-caste movements and the participation of OBC's.

  • Lynn Zastoupil History Rhodes College Link

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