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SECTION A - BUDGET SUMMARY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FUNDS
Budget Categories Project Year 1 Project Year 2 Project Year 3 Project Year 4 Project Year 5 Total (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)
1. Personnel
2. Fringe Benefits
3. Travel
4. Equipment
5. Supplies
6. Contractual
7. Construction
8. Other
9. Total Direct Costs (lines 1-8)
10. Indirect Costs*
11. Training Stipends
12. Total Costs (lines 9-11)
*Indirect Cost Information (To Be Completed by Your Business Office): If you are requesting reimbursement for indirect costs on line 10, please answer the following questions: (1) Do you have an Indirect Cost Rate Agreement approved by the Federal government? ____Yes ____ No (2) If yes, please provide the following information: Period Covered by the Indirect Cost Rate Agreement: From: ___/___/______To: ___/___/______(mm/dd/yyyy) Approving Federal agency: ____ ED ____ Other (please specify): ______(3) For Restricted Rate Programs (check one) -- Are you using a restricted indirect cost rate that: ___ Is included in your approved Indirect Cost Rate Agreement? or ___ Complies with 34 CFR 76.564(c)(2)?
ED 524 Comprehensive National Resource Center Budget — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center Category and Explanation Rate Title VI Funds References 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 A. Salaries 1. Administrative Director, James Nye, Bibliographer for 0% from CV 1 Southern Asia, 100% of time South Asia. USED Associate Director, Sally Noble, 100% of 33% from Narr 6.A.3 time South Asia. USED CV 2 Subtotal of administration 2. Language Instruction Lecturer in Telugu, Vimala Devi 100% from Narr 4.A.1 Katikaneni, 100% of time South Asia. † USED CV 24 Tmln 22 Lecturer in Marathi, Philip Engblom, 100% from Narr 4.A.1 100% of time South Asia. † USED CV 16 Tmln 19 Subtotal of language instruction 3. Area and Other Instruction Visiting faculty in the social sciences, 50% from Tmln 4 100% of time South Asia USED Visiting faculty in the humanities, 100% of 50% from Tmln 5 time South Asia USED Subtotal of area and other instruction 4. Outreach Personnel Narr 6.B.2 Coordinator of Outreach, Sarah 50% FTE CV 3 Neilson, 100% of time South Asia. ‡ from USED Outreach Project Assistant, 50% FTE unnamed. ‡ from USED Additional staff for Outreach 50% FTE presentations, unnamed ‡ from USED Subtotal of outreach personnel
Priorities: ‡ Absolute (blue text); † Competitive (green); ♦ Invitational (brown) A1 Comprehensive National Resource Center Budget — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center Category and Explanation Rate Title VI Funds References 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 5. Library Personnel Library acquisitions and cataloging 50% FTE Tmln 29 assistant, 50% of time South Asia. from USED Salaries Subtotal 166,727 170,829 174,386 178,717 B. Fringe Benefits Professional salaries 21.0% 0000 Visiting faculty and unregistered students 7.3% 0000 Registered students 0% 0000 Fringe Benefits Subtotal 0000 C. Travel 1. Domestic Travel Title VI conferences Please see Narrative Budget 2,550 2,627 2,705 2,786 Justification. Outreach Please see Narrative Budget 1,500 1,545 1,591 1,639 Narr 7 Justification. 2. Foreign Travel ♦ One airfare, U.S.-South Asia-U.S., each year. $1,900 per airfare plus 3% 1,900 1,957 2,016 2,076 Narr 6.A.2 annual inflation. Tmln 31 & 35 Subsistence for 10 days per trip Annually, 10 days at $90 per 900 927 955 983 day plus 3% annual inflation.
Travel Subtotal 6,850 7,056 7,267 7,485 D. Supplies 1. Production of South Asia Outreach Please see Narrative Budget 4,200 4,600 4,600 4,600 Narr 7 Newsletter ‡ Justification. Tmln 38 2. Library Acquisitions ♦ Please see Narrative Budget 40,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 Narr 5.C.1 Justification. Tmln 30 3. Video Acquisitions ♦ Purchase of approximately 10 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 Narr 7 DVDs (average cost of $150) Tmln 42 each year. Supplies Subtotal 45,700 46,100 46,100 46,100
Priorities: ‡ Absolute (blue text); † Competitive (green); ♦ Invitational (brown) A2 Comprehensive National Resource Center Budget — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center Category and Explanation Rate Title VI Funds References 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 E. Other 1. Curriculum Enrichment and Language Development a. Proficiency-based Language Instruction and Please see Narrative Budget 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 Narr 11.A Measurement of Student Proficiency † Justification. Tmln 10 b. Creation of Web-based Resources for Language Please see Narrative Budget 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 Narr 8.A Teaching and Learning ‡ ♦ Justification. Tmln 11 & 14 c. South Asia Summer Language Institute ♦ Fixed annual payment for 8,000 8,000 8,000 8,000 Narr 2.B.5 administration. Tmln 13 d. Develop New Courses on Islam ♦ A professional service fee of 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 Narr 2.B.1 $2,000 for each new course. Tmln 3
e. International Satellite TV Center ♦ Annual subscriptions to 2 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 Narr 8.A South Asian cable television Tmln 2 providers per year. Average fee for each is approximately $500. f. South India - A Center of Excellence in Chicago Please see Narrative Budget 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 Narr 8.A Justification. Tmln 6 2. Outreach and Training a. Collaborative Workshops ‡ Please see Narrative Budget 5,000 0 5,000 0 Narr 8.A Justification. Tmln 37 b. Curriculum Development Forum ‡ ♦ Please see Narrative Budget 8,000 8,000 8,000 8,000 Narr 8.A Justification. Tmln 41 c. Faculty Seminar on South Asia for College Two annual grants of $2,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 Narr 7.B Teachers ‡ for college South Asian Tmln 40 faculty to support participation in the seminar. d. Film Screenings and Exhibits ♦ Please see Narrative Budget 1,700 1,700 1,700 1,700 Narr 7 Justification. Tmln 42 e. Asia in Chicago ♦ An average of $2,000 will be 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 Narr 7 paid toward the expense of Tmln 43 five events each year. f. Visiting Scholar Travel Grants to the Chicago South Two grants of $1,000 each 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 Narr 7.B Asia Library Collection ♦ year. Tmln 28
Priorities: ‡ Absolute (blue text); † Competitive (green); ♦ Invitational (brown) A3 Comprehensive National Resource Center Budget — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center Category and Explanation Rate Title VI Funds References 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 3. Center Evaluations Narr 9.B.1 a. University Evaluation of All Centers Tmln 46-50 First-year evaluation of area centers and Center for Partial payment of one 500 0 0 0 International Studies by Chicago non-NRC faculty. professional service fee. b. South Asia Outreach Evaluation ‡ ♦ First-year evaluation of South Asia center Outreach Please see Narrative Budget 2,000 000 by external evaluator. Justification. c. South Asia Center Evaluation Second-year comprehensive evaluation of South Please see Narrative Budget 0 2,000 0 0 Asia center by external evaluator. Justification. d. South Asia Language Evaluation † Third-year evaluation of South Asia language Please see Narrative Budget 002,000 0 instruction by external evaluator. Justification. e. Evaluation by Other Chicago Center Directors Fourth-year self evaluation of Chicago's center by Partial payment of one 000500 local NRC directors. professional service fee. Other Subtotal 69,200 63,700 68,700 62,200 ______F. Total Direct Costs 288,477 287,684 296,453 294,502
G. Indirect Charges 8% of total direct costs. 23,078 23,015 23,716 23,560 ______Total Costs $311,555 $310,699 $320,169 $318,063
Summary of expenditures* for priority activities: Total for absolute priority of teacher training $30,456 $23,328 $28,728 $23,328 Total for NRC and FLAS competitive priorities $10,800 $10,800 $12,960 $10,800 Total for NRC program invitational priorities 1-5 $74,520 $74,611 $74,704 $74,800
Total expenditure for priority activities $115,776 $108,739 $116,392 $108,928 Percentage of total NRC budget for priority activities 37% 35% 36% 34%
*If an expenditure is classified as supporting more than one priority activity, the expenditure is only included under the highest level priority to avoid double counting.
Priorities: ‡ Absolute (blue text); † Competitive (green); ♦ Invitational (brown) A4 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Budget — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center
Category and Explanation Rate Title VI Funds References 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10
Academic Year Awards Narr 10 Subsistence Allowance 13 students @ $15,000 each. $195,000 $195,000 $195,000 $195,000 Tmln 52 Institutional Payment 13 students @ $12,000 each. 156,000 156,000 156,000 156,000 Academic Year Fellowships Subtotal 351,000 351,000 351,000 351,000
Summer Awards Narr 10 Subsistence Allowance 6 students @ $2,500 each. 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 Tmln 52 Institutional Payment 6 students @ $4,000 each. 24,000 24,000 24,000 24,000 Summer Fellowships Subtotal 39,000 39,000 39,000 39,000 ______Total proposed FLAS budget $390,000 $390,000 $390,000 $390,000
Notes: All expenditures are for FLAS Program Competitive Priorities 1 and 2. All of the South Asian languages taught at the University of Chicago are in the category of least commonly taught and more than 80% of the FLAS recipients will pursue advanced levels of language proficiency. An exception will be made to the normal University of Chicago preference for granting FLAS awards to in-residence students in order to permit awards to talented, entering master’s degree students who are likely to pursue government service or enter a professional field.
A5 Narrative Budget Justification — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center
The budget demonstrates the University of Chicago's commitment to engage in all of the priority activities requested by the U.S. Department of Education under the National Resource Center (NRC) Program and the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Program. This University commitment encompasses the Absolute Priority for teacher training as well as all of the Competitive Preference priorities and Invitational priorities. Seventy-three percent of the NRC budget is for priority activities. One hundred percent of the FLAS budget is for Competitive Preference priorities.
National Resource Center Program A. Salaries Salaries are projected to increase by 3% each year. 1. Administrative Center Director, James Nye, Bibliographer for Southern Asia, commits 100% of his time to South Asia. One quarter of his time is related to his role as Center Director. His full salary is paid by the University of Chicago.
Center Associate Director, Sally Noble, commits 100% of her time to South Asia. One-third of her salary is paid from the USED grant. 2. Language Instruction (in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations) † Lecturer in Telugu, Vimala Devi Katikaneni, commits 100% of her time to South Asia. † Telugu, a language with more than 70 million speakers, is among the South Asian languages almost never taught in the U.S. All of her salary is paid from the USED grant. FLAS competitive priority 1.
Lecturer in Marathi, Philip Engblom, commits 100% of his time to South Asia. † Until Engblom began teaching Marathi at Chicago in 2002, no graduate South Asian studies program in the U.S. was offering the language to advanced levels of competency. All of his salary is paid from the USED grant. FLAS competitive priority 1. 3. Area and Other Instruction Visiting faculty in the social sciences for South Asia studies. Half of the salary is paid from the USED grant. As with the visiting faculty in the humanities mentioned below, this component of our South Asia Center permits departments to become better acquainted with scholars who might be offered regular appointments at the University. The visiting appointments also expand the range of courses offered to our graduate and undergraduate students. Selection of the visitors is made by the South Asia Center's Executive Committee in consultation with the host academic department.
Visiting faculty in the humanities for South Asia studies. Half of the salary is paid from the USED grant. 4. Outreach Personnel ‡ Coordinator of Outreach, Sarah Neilson, commits 100% of her time to South Asia. ‡ Neilson has re- energized and given new direction to the Center's Outreach program since her arrival in 2004. Half of her salary is paid from the USED grant. All of the time paid by USED is for teacher education. Absolute priority for teacher training. Outreach Project Assistant, unnamed. ‡ Half of the salary for the student assistant is paid from the USED grant. All of the time paid by USED is for teacher education. Absolute priority for teacher training. Additional staff for Outreach presentations. ‡ Half of the salary for the student assistant is paid from the USED grant. All of the time paid by USED is for teacher education. Absolute priority for teacher training.
Priorities: ‡ Absolute (blue text); † Competitive (green); ♦ Invitational (brown) A6 Narrative Budget Justification — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center
5. Library Personnel A library acquisitions and cataloging assistant will be engaged for .5 FTE. All of the salary is paid from the USED grant. B. Fringe Benefits Fringe benefits on salaries are based on the University's negotiated rates for Federal grants. Those rates are 21% for professional salaries, 7.3% for visiting faculty and unregistered students, and no benefits for registered students. C. Travel All travel expenses include annual inflation of three percent. 1. Domestic Travel Travel to Title VI conferences. Rate: Three Center staff, average expense of approximately $850 per person per year plus 3% annual inflation.
Travel for Outreach activities. Rate: Travel by Outreach staff to local events ($300/yr.) and national events (2 events at $600 each/yr.) plus 3% annual inflation. 2. Foreign Travel ♦ Invitational priority 4. Travel during years 1, 3 and 4 will be for library acquisitions and for collaboration with library collections of the American Institute of Indian Studies, American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, and American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, all of which are American Overseas Research Centers. Travel during year 2 will include review of the University's college program in India and library acquisitions. Rate: One airfare, U.S.-South Asia-U.S., each year and subsistence for 10 days per trip. D. Supplies 1. Production of South Asia Outreach Newsletter ‡ Absolute priority for teacher training. Rate: Printing and postage for two issues per year. We plan to increase the size of the Newsletter from the current 12 pages to 16 pages in the first year of the quadrennium and further increase the size to 20 pages during the remaining three years. Expenses are approximately $1,700 per issue and $600 for postage during years 2 - 4. 2. Library Acquisitions ♦ Invitational priority 2. Partial payment for acquisition of books, journals, and newspapers from South Asia via the Library of Congress Field Offices in the region. All of the funds will be used to acquire materials for the study of Islamic societies, including the expansion of the University's collection profile to include publications from Afghanistan. 3. Video Acquisitions ♦ Invitational priority 5. Purchase forty DVDs for the Outreach video lending library. The Outreach video lending library is an important resource for K-12 teachers throughout the U.S.
Priorities: ‡ Absolute (blue text); † Competitive (green); ♦ Invitational (brown) A7 Narrative Budget Justification — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center
E. Other 1. Curriculum Enrichment and Language Development a. Proficiency-based Language Instruction and Measurement of Student Proficiency † NRC competitive priority. South Asia language faculty will develop and implement a comprehensive approach to language proficiency assessment over four years through sessions with an ACTFL examiner and workshops. The activities will result in a decision on the level of engagement with ACTFL, a full policy statement on expected levels of proficiency for each year of language study, and a plan for implementing and testing the new policy during the fourth year. This testing will be developed in collaborate with the South Asia Language Resource Center and the University's Language Faculty Resource Center. Rate: Fee for ACTFL examiner in yr. 1 ($1,000), convener and rapporteur for yr. 2 ($1,000), professional service fees for faculty participating in test of new guidelines during yrs. 3 & 4 ($1,000). Additionally, professional service fees of $3,000 each for three persons each year will support faculty, language instructors, and advanced graduate students in developing new resources for proficiency-based instruction and measurement of student proficiency. b. Creation of Web-based Resources for Language Teaching and Learning ‡ ♦ Absolute priority and Invitational priorities 1 and 4. At least four widely used textbooks previously published by the Center will be converted for use over the Internet. Free access via the World Wide Web will extend the accessibility of these publications to a wider audience, including undergraduates at colleges and universities in the U.S. Further, the Center will collaborate with the South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC) and the University's Language Faculty Resource Center in the creation of new teaching resources for less-commonly-taught languages. The Center will share costs with SALRC for projects having a Chicago principal investigator. Rate: Each of the older titles that are digitized will require approximately $1,000 to enter the text into a digital file and convert the text to Unicode for display of the appropriate South Asian characters over the Internet. Creation of new teaching resources with SALRC will include sharing costs, up to $4,000 per year, for production of text, audio, and video files for use via the Internet. The University will not charge for mounting the language teaching resources on a Web site. c. South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) ♦ Invitational priority 1. SASLI, a collaborative creation of all the South Asia National Resources Centers, will offer intensive first- and second-year instruction in at least eleven less-commonly-taught languages of South Asia. SASLI is a remedy for the paucity of current opportunities for training specialists in these critical languages. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's South Asia NRC will host the Institute during the quadrennium. Chicago is a charter member of SASLI and Chicago's South Asia Center Director, one of SASLI's founders, serves on the SASLI Executive Committee. Rate: An annual payment of $8,000 is made to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for expenses of SASLI administration. Chicago also gives one summer FLAS award to be distributed by SASLI. d. Develop New Courses on Islam ♦ Invitational priority 2. The Center will support faculty and advanced graduate students in creation of four new courses related to Islam in South Asia. Rate: A professional service fee of $2,000 will be paid for each new course.
Priorities: ‡ Absolute (blue text); † Competitive (green); ♦ Invitational (brown) A8 Narrative Budget Justification — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center
e. International Satellite TV Center ♦ Invitational priorities 1 and 4. The satellite TV center, which operates in coordination with the University's Language Faculty Resource Center, improves access for students and faculty to the increasingly important electronic media from South Asia. The Center draws signals from a satellite dish already available on campus for use in language teaching, research, and media studies program. During the quadrennium, the Center will seek corporate sponsors and donors to expand the facilities. This resource will also be be made available without charge to the South Asia Language Resource Center. Rate: Annual subscriptions to 2 South Asian cable television providers per year. Average fee for each is approximately $500. f. South India - A Center of Excellence in Chicago The recent addition of four new faculty with scholarly focus on south India makes Chicago an undisputed leader in research and teaching on that region. Language offerings include Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam by full-time instructors. The University is training the next generation of scholars for serious engagement with textual traditions and the social sciences. Federal funds will permit an even greater consolidation of scholarship and teaching on south India at Chicago. Rate: USED funds will support expenses for conferences, workshops, and pilot projects such as the development of a corpus of south Indian inscriptions. As an example of a conference, the first triennial conference on South Asian literature is planned for spring 2007 in memory of Prof. Norman Cutler. That conference will focus on south Indian literature. 2. Outreach and Training a. Collaborative Workshops ‡ Absolute priority. The Center will conduct a South Asia studies workshop for teachers every other year, alternating with summers in which the Center leads a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program. Each workshop will be organized around a critical theme related to international and area studies. When it is feasible, the workshop will be carried out in collaboration with the other Chicago area centers and present the South Asian component to an international studies topic. These workshops will be targeted to secondary and post-secondary educators engaged in internationalizing curricula and journalists and other professionals seeking international and area knowledge. Rate: Transportation (round trip airfare @ $650 x 2) = $1,300; Accommodation (4 nights @ 150) = $600; Professional service fee @ $500 x 2) = $1,000; Curriculum work in advance by education consultant (19 hrs total @ $50/hr) = $950; Publicity -- posters and applications, mailings ($150); Materials preparation -- course documents photocopying, permissions, binding, etc. ($1,000). b. Curriculum Development Forum ‡ ♦ Absolute priority and Invitational priorities 3 and 4. The Center will sponsor an annual workshop for middle- and high-school teachers to share information and resources for development of curriculum materials on South Asia. Chicago's Outreach staff will be facilitators, provide resource information, and create vehicles (on-line and printed) for the sharing of the curriculum. Outreach staff will integrate resources developed by participants in Asia in Chicago, Outreach workshops, and Chicago's Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad program. As an example, one year we expect to develop K-12 curriculum guides for use of the American Council for Southern Asian Art slides being mounted as digital resources on Chicago's Digital South Asia Library Web site. Rate: Estimated expenses for a typical year include workshop materials ($500), consulting fee ($1,000) for a curriculum development specialist, professional service fees of $500 per teacher for 7 teachers ($3,500), graduate student assistant ($1,000), and purchase of rights for use of materials ($2,000).
Priorities: ‡ Absolute (blue text); † Competitive (green); ♦ Invitational (brown) A9 Narrative Budget Justification — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center
c. Faculty Seminar on South Asia for College Teachers ‡ Absolute priority. The Center will continue post-secondary teacher training in conjunction with the University's Regional Worlds and Human Rights programs. During one year in the quadrennium we may conduct the seminar in conjunction with the annual South Asia conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Rate: Two annual grants of $2,000 for college South Asian faculty to support participation in the seminar. d. Film Screenings and Exhibits ♦ Invitational priority 5. The Center will organize an average of two public film screenings and one art exhibition each year at public venues in Chicago. Exhibit themes will be selected to complement outreach activities, especially teacher workshops and seminars for college faculty. Rate: Average expense for rental of each film will be $650. Average expenses for mounting objects to be exhibited will be $400. e. Asia in Chicago ♦ Invitational priority 5. The Center will co-sponsor a program of public presentations with the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and the University's Center for East Asian Studies. Asia in Chicago includes policy and business-related programs and cultural programs geared to a variety of audiences, including all of the categories deemed important to a Title VI outreach program. We will expand our advertisement of these events to encompass participants in Chicago's past Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad programs, to summer outreach seminar participants, and college faculty in the area. Rate: An average of $2,000 will be paid toward the expense of five events each year. f. Visiting Scholar Travel Grants to the Chicago South Asia Library Collection ♦ Invitational priority 1. The Center will sponsor two visiting summer scholars per year from colleges and universities to take advantage of the Center’s rich library and research resources. Special emphasis will be placed upon recruiting summer scholars from among teachers of less-commonly-taught languages at undergraduate colleges. The competition will be open to scholars from smaller institutions throughout the United States lacking a major South Asia library collection. The competition will be advertised through the Chicago South Asia Outreach Newsletter, e-mail, and the Chronicle of Higher Education to ensure a diverse, national pool of applicants. The South Asia Center's Executive Committee will select visiting scholars. Rate: Two grants of $1,000 each year. 3. Center Evaluations a. University Evaluation of All Centers First-year evaluation of area centers and Center for International Studies by Chicago non-NRC faculty. Rate: Partial payment of one professional service fee. b. South Asia Outreach Evaluation ‡ ♦ Absolute priority and Invitational priority 5. First-year evaluation of South Asia Center's Outreach program by an external evaluator. The evaluation with also include planning for the remaining three years of the grant. Rate: Transportation (round trip airfare @ $650); Accommodations (3 nights @ 150) = $450; Per Diem (3 days @ 150) = $450; Professional service fee ($1,500) $1,050 of the expenses will be paid by the University of Chicago's Center for International Studies.
Priorities: ‡ Absolute (blue text); † Competitive (green); ♦ Invitational (brown) A10 Narrative Budget Justification — 2006-2010 University of Chicago South Asia National Resource Center
c. South Asia Center Evaluation Second-year comprehensive evaluation of South Asia center. One external evaluator. Rate: Transportation (round trip airfare @ $650); Accommodations (3 nights @ 150) = $450; Per Diem (3 days @ 150) = $450; Professional service fee ($1,500) $1,050 of the expenses will be paid by the University of Chicago's Center for International Studies. d. South Asia Language Evaluation Third-year evaluation of South Asia language instruction. One external evaluator. Rate: Transportation (round trip airfare @ $650); Accommodations (3 nights @ 150) = $450; Per Diem (3 days @ 150) = $450; Professional service fee ($1,500) $1,050 of the expenses will be paid by the University of Chicago's Center for International Studies. e. Evaluation by Other Chicago Center Directors Fourth-year self evaluation of Chicago's center by local NRC directors. Rate: Partial payment of one professional service fee. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program ♦ All expenditures are for FLAS Program Competitive Priorities 1 and 2. All of the South Asian languages taught at the University of Chicago are in the category of least-commonly taught and more than 80% of the FLAS recipients will pursue advanced levels of language proficiency. An exception will be made to the normal University of Chicago preference for granting FLAS awards to in- residence students in order to permit awards to talented, entering master’s degree students who are likely to pursue government service or enter a professional field.
General Note The following abbreviations are used in the References column of the main budget: Narr = Narrative; CV = Curricula Vitae; Tmln = Timeline.
Priorities: ‡ Absolute (blue text); † Competitive (green); ♦ Invitational (brown) A11
Contents
Application for Federal Assistance (Standard Form 424) ______[unnumbered]
Budget Information Non-Construction Programs (ED Form 524) ______[unnumbered] Itemized Budget Breakdown and Narrative Budget Justification______A1
Assurances, Certifications, and Disclosure Forms Non-Construction Programs (Standard Form 424B) ______[unnumbered] Certifications Regarding Lobbying; Debarment, Suspension and Other ______[unnumbered] Responsibility Matters; and Drug-Free Workplace Requirements (ED80-0013) Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and ______[unnumbered] Voluntary Exclusion – Lower Tier Covered Transactions (ED80-0014)
Contents ______i
Tables ______ii
World Area and Application Type Selection Sheet ______[unnumbered]
Abstract______B1
Application Narrative 1. Commitment to the Subject Area ______C1 2. Quality of Curriculum Design ______C4 3. Quality of the Applicant's Non-Language Instructional Program ______C8 4. Quality of the Applicant's Language Instructional Program ______C12 5. Strength of Library______C17 6. Quality of Staff Resources______C21 7. Outreach Activities ______C25 8. Program Planning and Budget ______C29 9. Impact and Evaluation ______C33 10. FLAS Awardee Selection Procedures ______C37 11. Competitive Priorities ______C39
Appendices A: Timeline______D1 B: Course List and Enrollments ______E1 C: Biographical Information______F1
Information on Section 427 of GEPA ______G1
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1 University financial support, 2004/05 ______C3 2 AIIS fellowships for junior and senior field research, 1962–2005______C8 3 Degrees awarded with South Asian concentration, autumn 2002–summer 2005 ____ C10 4 Summer language study, 2005 ______C13 5 Languages offered, 2005/06 ______C14 6 Library acquisitions funds, staff salaries, and benefits, 2004/05 ______C18 7 Placement of graduates, 2004/05______C33
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ED 424 Form Item 16 World Area and Application Type Selection Sheet
Please check the World Area focus for this application:
Africa:
Asia:
Canada:
East Asia:
Europe/Eurasia:
Inner Asia:
International:
Latin America & Caribbean:
Middle East:
Pacific Islands:
Russia/East Europe:
South Asia: X
Southeast Asia:
Western Europe:
Other (please specify): ______
Please check application type: Comprehensive NRC and FLAS X
Undergraduate NRC and FLAS
Comprehensive NRC only
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FLAS only
ABSTRACT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SOUTH ASIA NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER
Founded in the 1950s, this well established South Asia Center is rejuvenating itself. Building on the strength of its founders and a strong institutional commitment to scholarship on the region, the Center appointed five new faculty this year in language and area studies. It is infusing existing competencies with new perspectives and pedagogies. The Center's main product is teachers. It places graduates in liberal arts colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. It also has supplied high-ranking officers to the Department of State and to important not-for-profit institutions such as the Asia Society, the Rand Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and Amnesty International. Ranging across all the countries in the area, the program has granted degrees for dissertations on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Tibet. During the past three years, Chicago has graduated 92 B.A.s, 70 M.A.s and 41 Ph.D.s. Fifty-four area and language faculty currently teaching in nineteen departments and five professional programs train them. Nine modern and two classical languages are offered to advanced levels of proficiency by full-time faculty. Approximately 280 courses with South Asia content are taught; around 170 each year. Students of South Asia receive their degrees from various disciplinary departments but add comprehensive language and area training. This is useful for placement in that it opens both disciplinary and South Asia tracks for job candidates. Interdisciplinary collaboration also characterizes the two-quarter flagship course, South Asian Civilizations. Especially designed as an introduction, the course is taught by historians, anthropologists, literature scholars, and classicists. A one-quarter concentrated program of South Asian Civilizations is offered in India. Multifarious opportunities for graduate study of South Asia are available. The Business School and the Committee on International Relations have designed formal joint degrees, while the Divinity, Public Policy, and Law programs grant degrees with an area emphasis. The Library is the leading South Asia private library in the U.S. and abroad. Its strength rests not only on an outstanding collection of 643,600 volumes, 4,918 current serials, 3,900 audio- visuals, and 11,300 maps, but on the quality of the collection processing and accessibility. Staffing level is very high, processing of materials expeditious, and access for University and visiting scholars user-friendly. Major collaborative projects with collections in India and Pakistan are designed to preserve materials and make them available in the United States while federally-funded digital initiatives at the Library are improving access to vital South Asia resources worldwide. Outreach by faculty and specially hired staff includes initiatives to secondary schools, post- secondary institutions, media, business, and government. A collaborative workshops program in conjunction with other Chicago NRCs and a South Asia curriculum forum are designed to complement the Center’s Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad programs. Annual conferences on campus are targeted to collegiate teachers. Many different audiences will benefit from our Asia in Chicago program conducted in collaboration with the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. The chief enhancements proposed include: initiatives related to proficiency-based instruction for South Asian languages in close collaboration with the South Asia Language Resource Center at Chicago and the South Asia Summer Language Institute, more extensive Center evaluation, expanded collaboration with American Overseas Research Centers, new courses on Islam in South Asia, enhanced outreach, and other programs that meet all of the competitive and invitational priorities established for this NRC and FLAS competition. The 17-to-1 ratio of University to USED financial support permits the Center to use nearly all grant funds for announced priority activities.
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1. Commitment to the Subject Area
The Chicago South Asia program began in the nineteen fifties, impelled by the intellectual
creativity of the anthropologists Robert Redfield and Milton Singer. They brought together col-
leagues with South Asia interests in the social sciences and the humanities in order to explore ideas
of Civilization, high culture, and folk culture. Their intellectual interests significantly influenced the
Chicago South Asia Center from the 1960s through the 1980s, during which Chicago was a leader
in setting research agendas for South Asian studies. As the faculty of the first generation retired
in the 1990s, the University responded vigorously with senior appointments and prepared the
program to continue its role of intellectual leadership. This year, in the wake of a key faculty
departure, the University demonstrated its continuing commitment to South Asian studies by
hiring four Assistant Professors and a full-time Malayalam language lecturer in the Department
of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. The most recent appointments include intellectuals
from Europe, Israel, and India, whose scholarship expands the range of approaches to South
Asian studies at the University. Faculty appointments during the past four years have allowed
the University to increase the number of South Asian languages offered on a regular basis from
eight to eleven, with plans to increase this by at least one more language during the coming
quadrennium. Expansion of the South Asia faculty has been complemented by the recent
appointment of specialists in Buddhist, Islamic, and Persian studies in the Divinity School, Near
Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Art History. Chicago is renewing its extraordinary strengths. New faculty are building upon and enriching philological, anthropological, and historical approaches to the study of South Asia which have been nurtured at Chicago over the past four and a half decades and will propel South Asian studies in new directions. Additional contributions to scholarship are expected in the future as the University makes new junior and mid-
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C2 career appointments during the coming years, first in political science and subsequently in Bengali in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, art history, and anthropology.
The University's commitment to area studies is the result of the faculty's intellectual liveli- ness and innovation. Chicago’s area studies faculty have established broad intellectual agendas rather than simply becoming marginalized specialists. They have carried innovative approaches from their specialized studies into wider arenas. Insightful innovations have persuaded Ameri- can scholars to read subaltern history and thereby have contributed to the intellectual currency of constructivism and the influence of concepts and debates from colonial and identity studies upon writing on race, class, and ethnicity. Scholars of South Asia also have set a standard for investi- gating the new issues that globalization raises for history, anthropology, law, and sociology.
Speaking more generally about the institutional context, the University of Chicago is a private university of 13,740 students with a strong emphasis upon graduate teaching. Of the student popu- lations, a third, 4,638, are undergraduates while the remaining two-thirds are divided among 3,808 graduate students in the humanities, social and hard sciences together with 5,294 students in profes- sional schools. The University is one of the world’s great intellectual communities. At a ratio of one to seven, the University has the highest teacher to student ratio of all the private universities with which it compares itself. Perhaps its greatest strength is as a teacher of teachers. It produces undergraduates who go on to graduate and professional schools at an unparalleled rate (95% of those who apply). Furthermore, most of the graduate students go on to teach in universities and four-year colleges.
Approximately 280 courses with South Asia content are taught, 170 or so during any year
(Appendix B).
1.A) University's financial and other commitments to Center operations and South Asia area
studies. The overall sum contributed by the University for the Center's programs and staff, just
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C3 over nine and a half million dollars last year, Table 1 University Financial Support, 2004/05 represents an impressive ongoing Center commitment. Center support from the Salaries and benefits $174,353 Office equipment 31,275 Department of Education, while vital for the Supplies and miscellaneous 47,600 Faculty Salaries and benefits 2,976,019 programs, is less than 6% of the total annual Research, travel, seed money 984,156 Departmental support 94,800 expenses. The future reliability of this Public meetings, seminars 56,200 Library commitment is evident from the generous Salaries and benefits 401,400 Acquisitions 153,911 support this year to rejuvenate the Department Outreach 58,185 Student Support of South Asian Languages and Civilizations Fellowships 4,434,830 Conferences and activities 57,500 with four new tenure-track appointments and Overseas Institutional Connections 120,000 Total $9,590,229 one lecturer; conferring an endowed chair on Alam; a renewed search for a mid-career political scientist; and next year the appointment of David Shulman. Additionally, this year the University created a Center for the Study of Languages. With an investment of over one million dollars during the next two years, the new language center will consolidate and enhance support for language teaching and learning across academic disciplines and the Title VI area studies centers.
The University paid nearly three million dollars last year for the salaries of all core South
Asia faculty and most of the language instructors. Furthermore, the University has moved aggressively and with considerable success over the past three years to counter offers from other universities to our more notable faculty.
The University’s most ambitious capital campaign to date, the Chicago Initiative, seeks to raise two billion dollars by 2008. The priorities of the Initiative are to strengthen our community of scholars and teachers, ensure access to a Chicago education through financial aid, increase support and create facilities for scientific research, and complete the campus facilities master plan. Area studies and South Asian studies are the objects of special attention during the
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C4 campaign.
In 2005, the Center was provided with renovated space to create a suite of five offices, including more room for Outreach. Four years ago the Center was integrated with the Social Sciences financial support services, ensuring one-quarter additional full-time equivalent of administrative support. As another example of institutional commitment, the University regularly returns much of the indirect costs received under external grants for direct use on those grant-funded projects.
Chicago's links to institutions overseas are through the American Institute of Indian Studies
(AIIS) and other American overseas research centers. With thirty-six fellowships this year, AIIS is the major source of support for research abroad on South Asia at the Ph.D. level and above. This year AIIS also funded twenty-one students under the academic-year Language Study in India program and twenty-two summer students. The value of the University’s contribution to AIIS for office space on campus is $120,000. In a dramatic example of collaboration overseas, the
University Library provided $253,000 for restoration of the Urdu Research Centre library in
Hyderabad, India, following a devastating flood three years ago.
The financial data in Table 1 does not include indirect expenses that the University incurs in maintaining the Center beyond the 8% permitted by USED. Under our current Title VI award, this amounts to an estimated $61,945 this year. The contribution is calculated on the basis of the difference between our "instruction" rate of 33% and the permitted 8% under Title VI.
1.B) University's financial support to graduate students. The University routinely offers students
tuition remissions, stipends, teaching fellowships, and research fellowships. This support of almost
four and a half million dollars extends to virtually all of the nearly 200 current students whose work
includes significant study of South Asia.
2. Quality of Curriculum Design
2.A.1) Baccalaureate degree programs. Chicago undergraduates are introduced to South Asia
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C5 through a course specifically designed for them, a two-quarter sequence on South Asian
Civilizations or a one-quarter version of that sequence taught in India. Annually about sixty students from the College enroll in these courses. In addition, graduate courses at the 300 level routinely accept undergraduates. South Asia courses had a total of 581 undergraduate enrollments in 2004/05. In the same year thirty-two baccalaureate degrees were awarded with
South Asia concentrations as defined by USED.
The Associate Dean of International and Second Language Education in the College is responsible for the language competency examination system, the Foreign Language Proficiency
Certificate program, implementation of foreign language acquisition courses, and summer language training seminars and courses. With the Director of Foreign Study Programs, she oversees the study and internship abroad programs and supervises grant programs to support international research and foreign language acquisition. The Committee on Southern Asian
Studies and the Center actively support and help to staff the College's intensive language study program in India and the South Asian Civilizations course in India (Timeline 1).
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continues to support a restructuring of language teaching and learning in the College. This ambitious program, begun in 1999 and now in its second phase, is increasing opportunities for study abroad and creating an emphasis on language proficiency rather than fulfillment of a minimal requirement. Meanwhile, the University is raising an endowment of $5,000,000 to sustain the program and to support awards of 150 fellowships annually for study abroad. While the emphasis under the Mellon grant is on the most frequently taught languages, the program also produces significant benefits for the less frequently taught languages. These benefits have included: 1) appointment of the Associate
Dean of International and Second Language Education, 2) creation of a Language Instruction
Coordinating Committee in the College, 3) upgrading campus language laboratories and
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C6 language learning spaces in dormitories, and 4) establishing incentives to integrate language teaching with the teaching of content across the curriculum.
2.A.2) Appropriateness of undergraduate options. A newly revised South Asian studies
undergraduate major requires two quarters of the South Asian Civilizations sequence, six
quarters of a South Asian language, six other approved courses, and, if students wishes to receive
honors, a B.A. thesis written under the supervision of a faculty adviser. Students are encouraged
to take more than the minimum language requirements and almost all of the undergraduates do.
A new minor in South Asian studies is another option in the College. It involves six courses,
including a two-course language requirement. Science students often take this option in order to
broaden their non-science education.
Students in the baccalaureate program are carefully supervised by a faculty adviser to
ensure that their academic programs are well considered and comprehensive (Appendix C, no.
49). In addition, a faculty undergraduate adviser consults with students about curriculum
requirements, research prospects, and overseas opportunities.
2.B.1) Variety of options for graduate studies. Please see Sections 3.A and 3.B for detailed
statements on the many courses available to graduate students. This variety is made possible by
Chicago's faculty and the breadth of disciplines and professional fields they represent
(summary in Appendix C). In addition, the Center will support development of four new courses related to Islam in South Asia. These new courses will also be available to undergraduates
(Timeline 3 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.1.d).
2.B.2) Appropriateness and quality of graduate studies options. In both the Humanities and the
Social Sciences Divisions, graduate students specializing in South Asia must master the theoreti-
cal aspect of their discipline and become experts concerning a particular region. Students in both
divisions must meet rigorous language requirements. The chief humanities department, South
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Asian Languages and Civilizations, requires expertise in a "language of concentration" as well as study of both a second South Asian language and a third relevant European or South Asian language. The second of the two required South Asian languages may be a modern or classical language. The Social Sciences departments have language requirements that accept South Asian languages as appropriate. On average, students in both divisions complete their Ph.D. in six or seven years, three of which are generally spent in the classroom on course requirements. These time frames allow adequate opportunities for fieldwork and study within the chosen discipline.
2.B.3) Career advising. South Asia students have dual access to advising – through a discipli-
nary as well as an area studies network. Advising is provided by: 1) departments; 2) the univer-
sity-wide Career and Placement Center; 3) the South Asia Center; and 4) individual instructors.
Departments at Chicago typically have a designated staff member responsible for placement.
The Career and Placement Center provides free on-line job-listings, workshops, and counseling
on employment opportunities. The South Asia Center connects our students with institutions
seeking candidates with South Asia competence and organizes career information sessions
targeting area studies in coordination with the Center for International Studies. Individual
faculty and preceptors meet with students to advise on careers and to disseminate information
about available teaching and professional positions as well as opportunities for study abroad.
2.B.4) Establishment of programs abroad. Graduate students are expected to go to South Asia
as part of their Ph.D. training. Our students' fieldwork is often supported by fellowships from
Fulbright, AIIS, the Social Science Research Council, the University's MacArthur sponsored
Program in International Peace and Cooperation, and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies.
Chicago has the most Fulbright fellowships and junior and senior AIIS fellowships of any center in the country. In 2005 Chicago students received the greatest number of Fulbright-Hays
Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowships for the nineteenth consecutive year. Five of
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Chicago’s twenty-six Fulbright awards went to Table 2 AIIS Fellowships for Junior and Southern Asianists. Since 1962 the number of AIIS Senior Field Research, 1962–2005 fellowships received is 405, with our nearest University No. of Fellows 1962-2005 Chicago competitor at 295 (Table 2). 405 Pennsylvania 295 Wisconsin 2.B.5) Access to other study programs at other 269 Berkeley 279 institutions. We regularly inform undergraduate Columbia 151 Minnesota 119 students of the overseas opportunities offered by the Texas 115 Michigan 112 University of Wisconsin program, the Associated Washington 111 Cornell/Syracuse 90/? Colleges of the Midwest's program in Maharashtra, (Consortium) Harvard 90 and the University of Iowa's program in Mysore. Illinois 82 Virginia 82 Please see 4.A.2 for a description of Chicago's
leadership in creation of the South Asia Summer Language Institute. The vigorous use of summer
programs by graduate students (18 in 2005) is noted in 4.A.2 and Table 4.
3. Quality of the Applicant's Non-Language Instructional Program
3.A.1) Variety of disciplines and country coverage. The disciplinary breadth of the Center can
be observed by the number of departments and professional programs that have faculty with a
significant teaching component covering South Asia (Appendix C) and have awarded degrees
with a South Asian language requirement (Table 3). The Center calls on sixty-one faculty in
nineteen departments and five professional programs. Students have graduated with B.A.s,
M.A.s and Ph.D.s in twenty-nine departments and five professional programs over the past three
years.
Country coverage in the area can be observed by the extent of courses and Ph.D. dissertations.
Course subjects relate to the states of South Asia as modern political entities and reflect the diversity of distinct regional language groups and cultures within the subcontinent: Chakrabarty, Majumdar,
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C9 and Seely who teach Bengali culture and Bengali, attend to both Bangladesh and West Bengal.
Ebeling, Kommattam, Lindholm, and Paturi cover the literature and traditions of Dravidian south
India. Ritter teaches Hindi language, especially the Hindu literary traditions of north India, while
Stark specializes in the Muslim literature of north India in Hindi and Urdu. Alam focuses on the subcontinent's Islamic culture and Mughal history, common to both India and Pakistan, while
Bashir teaches Urdu and Urdu literature, with linguistic specialization in several languages of Paki- stan and northwestern India. The program has generated many Ph.D.s related to Pakistan. Arnold,
Kapstein, and Wedemeyer teach courses on Tibet and Nepal. Courses on the major religious tradi- tions of the subcontinent – Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam – are also well-represented in the cur- riculum. The Divinity School substantially strengthened Islamic studies on campus with the addition of two specialists between 2003 and 2005. Political Science is searching for a mid-career
South Asianist this year. In support of country coverage, it is noteworthy that the University is a founding member of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, the American Institute of Indian
Studies, and the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies.
During the past three years, forty-one Ph.D. dissertations have been completed by students taking 500 South Asia course units. (Please see a database of Chicago's Ph.D.s on South Asian topics awarded since 1914 at http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/soa2.html.) The broad array of topics addressed in dissertations during the past three years include: accommodation of political Islam in the Muslim world; historical genesis of "culture" as a concept in Bengal; language policy and Pakistani nationalism; reforms to the Indian manufacturing sector in the 1980s; illegal immigrants as voters in India and Malaysia; an anthropological study of expatriate women in
Kathmandu; social determinants of child health and education in India; and the role of India's supreme court in "legalizing religion".
3.A.2) Availability of South Asia courses in professional schools. Most prolific of the profes-
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C10 sional schools in offering joint Ph.D.s with Table 3 Degrees Awarded with South Asian the Center is the Divinity School. These Concentration, Autumn 2002–Summer 20051 graduates are much sought after in liberal Department Ph.D. M.A. B.A. arts college history of religions programs. Anthropology 6 7 7 Area Studies 14 23 10 The Center offers an M.A./M.B.A. in Art History 1 Biological Sciences 1 5 Business School * 1 1 N/A conjunction with the Graduate School of Classics 2 Divinity School * 7 16 N/A Business that calls for fifteen business and Economics 16 English Language and Lit. 3 thirteen South Asia courses, and a joint M.A. Environmental Studies 1 Gender Studies 2 with the Committee on International Geographical Studies 1 Geophysical Sciences 1 Relations. The Center has also collaborated History 1 2 5 History of Culture 1 1 N/A with the Law School, and the School of Human Development 2 2 Interdisciplinary Studies N/A N/A 3 Public Policy in training students for M.A. International Relations 1 N/A International Studies N/A N/A 3 and Ph.D. degrees. (Please see the five Law * 1 N/A Law, Letters and Society N/A N/A 3 professional programs marked with asterisks Linguistics 1 2 M.A. Prog. in Humanities N/A 2 N/A in Table 3.) Finally, it is important to note M.A. Prog. in Soc. Sci. N/A 14 N/A Mathematics 2 Philosophy 1 that students in the professional schools often Physics 1 Political Science 4 1 3 enroll in South Asia courses as electives even Psychology 4 Public Policy * 4 though they are not seeking a formal joint Religious Studies N/A N/A 7 Social Service Admin. * 1 degree. Sociology 2 3 Visual Arts 1 3.B) Depth of specialized course coverage. Total 41 70 92
The departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations (fifteen faculty members) and
1South Asian concentration equates to 500 units of South Asian courses, as defined by
USED. Asterisk signifies professional schools and programs. "N/A" denotes not applicable.
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Anthropology and the Divinity School (five or more South Asia specialists in each) offer a broad selection of courses. History, like South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Divinity
School, offers courses on both ancient and modern South Asia, as demonstrated in Appendix B.
In addition, many courses on Ottoman, Persian, and Mughal history offered in the Department of
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations are relevant for South Asia students.
3.C.1) Interdisciplinary courses. Chicago has a well-known tradition of interdisciplinary
studies. Graduate students are actively encouraged to cross departmental lines through extra-
departmental courses. Undergraduates benefit from the two-quarter South Asian Civilizations
course, which is taught both on campus and in India in conjunction with the undergraduate study
abroad program. The Civilizations course, which is regularly team-taught by senior faculty, is
the flagship of the South Asia program. The course syllabi include topics in literature, religion,
philosophy, history, archaeology, and political science. Additionally, it is common for faculty to
teach across disciplinary lines, as with Chakrabarty (history; social theory; literature); Nussbaum
(law; religion; gender studies); Majumdar (women’s social history and film studies); and
Morrison (archeology and state and society).
3.C.2) Adequate non-language faculty? The Center has thirty-two non-language faculty, at four
levels of commitment: 100% to program, six; 75% to program, three; 50% to program, seven;
25% to program, sixteen (Appendix C). For faculty strength as measured by outstanding
publishing quality and quantity, see brief curricula vitae in Appendix C.
3.C.3) Pedagogy training for teaching assistants. The Chicago College insists on training for
T.A.s and has several formal programs: "The Little Red School House" for writing and
analytical skills; the Chicago Teaching Program, through Continuing Education, for general pedagogy; and the College's apprenticeship program for discussion classes. The Committee on
Southern Asia Studies has a standing subcommittee for Curriculum Development to oversee
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C12 curricular activities in South Asian studies throughout the University. In 2005, that subcommittee began designing a pedagogy workshop, "Teaching South Asia," for graduate students. In addition, the University's Center for Teaching and Learning and the new Center for the Study of Languages serve as pedagogical resources for junior faculty and advanced graduate students. One of the Center for Teaching and Learning's offerings is a certificate program for graduate students seeking more extensive pedagogic training. That Center is a joint initiative of the undergraduate College, the four graduate divisions, and the Office of the Provost.
4. Quality of the Applicant's Language Instructional Program
4.A.1) Extent of languages covered. The Center regularly offers nine modern and two classical
languages: Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Persian, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, Urdu and the classical Pali and Sanskrit. Khowar and Panjabi are offered on demand (Table 5). This is more
regional language offerings by full-time professional instructors than any other university.
Students interested in other languages are referred to the South Asia Summer Language Institute
and encouraged to take advantage of AIIS offerings as well as those of other summer programs.
4.A.2) Language enrollment statistics. Table 5 depicts enrollments for our language courses
during 2004/05. For a more detailed statement, please see Appendix B. Our students make active
use of the summer language program option because of the opportunity it provides for
uninterrupted study. Fifteen or more students regularly take advantage of the summer option each
year (Table 4). The average number of summer students has increased noticeably over the past
three years as more Chicago students have studied in the South Asia Summer Language Institute, a
program established with shared organizational leadership from Chicago (Timeline 13 and Budget
Yrs. 1-4, E.1.c).
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4.B.1) Levels of instruction. With the exception of Malayalam and Telugu, all languages are
offered to four levels. Table 5 summarizes levels of instruction. Modern languages include:
Bengali Seely; Table 4 Summer Language Study, 20052 Hindi Grunebaum, Student Department Lang. Location Ritter, and Stark B. Aaron* Divinity Tibetan Columbia J. Burgin College Hindi India (New Delhi) plus one teaching N. Bhadhey* SALC Urdu India J. Dubrow* SALC Persian Berkeley assistant; O. Figueroa-Castro Divinity Sanskrit India (AIIS) J. Knutson SALC Sanskrit Israel (Hebrew Univ.) Malayalam S. Leonard SALC Marathi India (AIIS) M. McGuire* Anthropology Urdu India (AIIS) Kommattam; Y. Miyamae Divinity Sanskrit Chicago Marathi Engblom; A. Mocko* Divinity Nepali Cornell U. Nair* Anthropology Tibetan India (AIIS) Persian Lewis, C. Preston Divinity Sanskrit Chicago M. Rich* Anthropology Bengali Bangladesh Ghahremani, D. Sabu College Sanskrit Chicago C. Shipman College Kannada India (Mysore) Moayyad, Perry, F. Tan College Nepali Nepal S. Wright* SALC Bengali Wisconsin (SASLI) and Qutbuddin plus T. Yost Divinity Sanskrit Chicago two teaching assistants; Tamil Ebeling and Lindholm; Telugu Paturi and beginning next year
David Shulman will be available for advanced readings; Tibetan Jorden, Kapstein, and
Wedemeyer; Urdu Alam and Bashir. Classical languages include: Pali Collins and Sanskrit
Bronner, Collins, Doniger, Kapstein, and Wentworth plus one teaching assistant (Appendix C).
4.B.2) Courses taught in foreign languages. Other than advanced literature courses, only a few
South Asia courses, such as "Imagining Pakistan", are taught in a South Asian language.
However, the Center plans to link with the College’s Languages Across the Curriculum program,
2Asterisk denotes recipient of FLAS summer language fellowship from Chicago's South Asia
Language and Area Center.
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C14 an effort to integrate foreign language study and use of foreign language materials outside of language departments, during the next four years to encourage more offerings.
4.C.1) Sufficiency of language faculty. Twenty-five Table 5 Languages Offered, 2005/063 faculty in 2005/06 and four teaching assistants provide Regularly Levels No. of the personnel to staff four language levels (Table 5 and Offered Faculty Bengali 4 1 Appendix C). Five new language faculty joined the Hindi 4 4 (+1) Malayalam 2 1 University's South Asia program in 2005, three as Marathi 4 1 Pali 4 1 Persian 4 4 (+2) Assistant Professors and two as Instructors. They Sanskrit 4 5 (+1) Tamil 4 2 include Bronner in Sanskrit, Ebeling in Tamil, Telugu 3 1 Tibetan 4 3 Kommattam in Malayalam, Paturi in Telugu, and Stark Urdu 4 2 Total 25 (+4) in Hindi. David Shulman will join the faculty next Offered on Demand Khowar year, equally sharing each academic year between Panjabi
Chicago and Hebrew University. Enrollments 2004/05 Bengali 25 Hindi 102 4.C.2) Language pedagogy. The South Asia Marathi 10 Pali n/a Panjabi 3 Persian 96 Sanskrit 69 Tamil 24 Language Resource Center (SALRC) has radically Telugu 9 Tibetan 14 Urdu 32 altered the landscape of South Asian language
pedagogy and will continue to make further contributions in the future. Our faculty and
advanced graduate students who teach in the South Asia Summer Language Institute receive intensive and sustained exposure to the best in current pedagogy theory and practice through
training sessions run by SALRC during the summer sessions. The current SALRC post-doctoral
scholar is offering a course (open to graduate students and faculty) this year at Chicago on the
3Numbers within parentheses indicate instructional assistants. Under enrollments, Pali was
not offered because the faculty member was on leave.
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C15 intersection of language teaching and technology. SALRC will be the primary vehicle for delivery of the new language teaching and learning resources developed by Chicago faculty and colleagues at other U.S. universities (Timeline 12). The South Asia Center is linked with Chicago's new
Center for the Study of Languages to develop workshops for language instructors on proficiency- based language teaching. The revivified Consortium on Language Teaching and Learning is adding opportunities through grants and colloquia. This year, for instance, the Consortium's theme is training our graduate student instructors in language pedagogy.
Several Chicago modern language faculty have attended one of the ACTFL training workshops on performance-based teaching and proficiency testing. In addition, Professor Seely qualified as a proficiency tester in English, as ACTFL is not equipped to certify proficiency testers in Bengali. He adapted both performance and proficiency methods to a context in which there are no national proficiency guidelines.
4.D) Performance based instruction; teaching resources; proficiency requirements. Seely is a
leading figure in the small community of Bengali teachers devising materials for instruction
based on performance. These resources increase the emphasis on "active" rather than "passive"
skills, and on functional language use. Seely conducts weekly conversation sessions and uses
situation cards to stimulate dialogue. He has designed a series of interactive computer exercises
for use in teaching.
As noted in Section 11.A and elsewhere, Chicago's new Center for the Study of Languages is
already improving the quality of language instruction on campus. The Center's mission
includes providing: 1) modern classroom facilities and multimedia resources in support of
language teaching and learning for students, faculty and instructors; 2) a state-of-the-art research
and development center with appropriate staffing and equipment for creating teaching materials
and in support of research in second-language acquisition, language pedagogy, and linguistics;
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C16 and 3) professional development in language pedagogy and the use of technology in language instruction. South Asianists have already benefited from the fresh emphasis on the professional development of language faculty and graduate student instructors through courses, periodic workshops, and staff outreach to language departments. Closely related to the new Center, the
College has established a program for writing in foreign languages. Currently in pilot stage with
Spanish, that program simultaneously trains graduate assistants to serve as writing interns for literature courses and improves the quality of writing by students. The College is seeking a grant to extend the program to less commonly taught languages.
As a member of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (CLTL), Chicago continues to expand faculty resources and opportunities for language instruction. Several faculty are creating new materials for language teaching and learning: Kapstein produced a reader for advanced Tibetan; Seely has prepared a revised edition of Dimock's Introduction to Bengali4;
Bashir and Nye are collaborating with colleagues in Pakistan and Philadelphia to create electronic dictionaries for Pashto, Khowar, and Torwali; and Lindholm has provided user-friendly dialogues, slow echo re-dramatization, and drills based on two Tamil films for use in our Tamil program.
Over the past decade, our faculty’s innovative projects have been awarded more than $91,000 in support from the CLTL. (Please see Appendix C for individual CVs with bibliographic details.)
The South Asia language faculty will develop a comprehensive approach to language profi- ciency assessment during the next four years. Our plans for evaluation of Chicago's South Asia language program and planning for enhancements to proficiency-based instruction are noted
4In collaboration with Berkeley, the Bengali tapes were converted to digital audio last year and made available with the digital text on the Web. The resources are being tested at Berkeley,
Washington, and Iowa.
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C17 elsewhere in this proposal (Timeline 10 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.1.a). The workshops and other sessions will aid the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations in establishing new policies and proficiency requirements for languages. Please also see Section 11.A for a statement on competitive priority activities which will lead to production and distribution of examinations for each of the four basic skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking up to the intermediate-high level.
5. Strength of Library
5.A) The University's Library holdings and services to readers. The University of Chicago
Library's century-long commitment to South Asia has produced a collection worthy of
Chicago's leading role in international scholarship. The collection has the further advantage of being part of one of America's finest research libraries. Library leadership can be measured in the ambitious collection program, abundant services to readers, strength of staff, efficient provision of inter-library loans, and imaginative projects to further scholarship.
The commitment to South Asia is part of a wider dedication to area studies at the University of Chicago. Together with its South Asia holdings, the materials on Southeast Asia, East Asia,
Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East amounts to more than 3,100,000 volumes and comprises one of the world's great resources for area studies. These collections support cross-cultural and cross-regional scholarship on topics such as Islamic studies, where the sources and issues cut across all of Asia as well as other regions. The University Library’s collections include resources in a variety of formats: over 7.1 million cataloged and classified volumes; more than 46,000 active serials together with over 104,500 inactive serials; nearly 3.4 million microforms; about 31,000 linear feet of manuscripts and archival materials; more than
260,000 rare books; approximately 430,000 maps and aerial photographs; more than 44,100
sound recordings; and some 210,500 electronic resources.
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The Library supports scholarship on virtually all topics related to South Asia through an ambitious program of collecting contemporary materials that complement a century of collection development. More than 643,600 volumes comprise the South Asia collection. There are
396,245 volumes of books and 247,418 volumes of serials in more than thirty languages of the
South Asian subcontinent. The Library also contains more than 11,300 sheet maps and a vast array of photographs, posters, and audio and video recordings on South Asia. With the excep- tions of agricultural and engineering technology, all subjects are within the Library’s collecting scope. Breadth of selection has been a hallmark of a collection that includes "high" culture mate- rials, such as philological treatises and texts in the classical South Asian languages and "popular" materials, such as novels and magazines, key constituents of what has recently been described as
"public culture." The University of Chicago is the only U.S. library to collect in all languages of the region. An external evaluator stated in 2002 that he believed Chicago "to be the most comprehensive university library Table 6 collection of South Asia materials in Library Acquisitions Funds, Staff Salaries, and Benefits, 2004/05 North America." University funds $127,465 Extensive services are provided to Department of Education, Title VI 26,446 Total for acquisitions $153,911 readers and institutions beyond the University funds for 6 FTE in Chicago $210,300 Grant funds for 26 FTE in India 191,100 University. Because Chicago collects Total for 32 FTE $401,400 from opposing sides of political divisions, scholars from the subcontinent visit the collection to consult materials that are difficult or impossible to obtain under prevailing political circumstances. In addition, requests to explore the collection from scholars from across America and throughout the world are routinely accommodated.
5.B) Chicago's financial support for acquisitions and library staff. Generous support from the
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University combined with the regular receipt of grants enables consistent growth of the collection. These same financial sources support a strong staff, permit intensive processing of titles into the collection, and provide a hospitable climate for special projects. The amounts provided in Table 6 are conservative figures that do not reflect the value of space or of routine services provided by other departments.
While libraries at several South Asia National Resource Centers have reduced their staff, the
University of Chicago has increased funding for personnel to select, acquire, catalog, and preserve our collection. Some of this additional support has come from grants for cataloging and preserving early publications acquired through collaborative arrangements in India.
Grants from the Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Wellcome
Institute for the History of Medicine, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Department of
Education have supported major initiatives. In the past eleven years external funding for South
Asia library collection development, preservation, and cataloging has exceeded $3,510,000.
Grants have contributed to the innovative purchase and preservation of two important collections in India: the Roja Muthiah Research Library in Chennai and the Urdu Research Centre in
Hyderabad. These two projects have fostered unprecedented cooperation of public and private institutions in India and the United States. Private grants and institutional cooperation have also contributed to the deposit of the British Library’s duplicate 22,000-volume set of official publications of India at the University, an essential archive for the study of British imperialism in
South Asia. Most recently, the University is leading a multi-institutional, international initiative to create a South Asia Union Catalogue comprehensively describing all publications produced in
South Asia from 1556 through the present.
5.C.1) Cooperative arrangements for access to research materials. Chicago continues its role as
a founder and organizer of important collaborative consortia that provide indispensable research
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C20 materials to scholars throughout the world using the latest computer technology. Chicago is a driving force in the development of the Center for South Asian Libraries (CSAL), an overseas research center that is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. CSAL is acquiring, preserving, and disseminating older printed materials from the subcontinent in order to meet an increasing demand for such resources. Chicago is a founder and organizer of two additional projects: Digital Dictionaries of South Asia – creating fifty-five electronic dictionaries under grant support from USED – and the Digital South Asia Library. These collaborative programs have been awarded grants totaling more than $2,745,000. As their titles suggest, they are providing critical tools for scholarship to researchers over the Internet: dictionaries, texts, maps, statistical data, photographs, audio recordings, and indexes.
These consortia and the grants awarded to them represent only the recent efforts on behalf of
South Asia studies at Chicago. Longstanding commitments to collaboration have been main- tained and renewed. The South Asia Microform Project, the Center for Research Libraries, and the Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisitions Program continue to underpin Chicago's cooperative library activities. The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) remains a linchpin for collaboration not only by storing less-frequently used materials but also through cooperative programs such as the South Asia Microform Project that preserve and disseminate important texts. The Cooperative Acquisitions Program represents the renewal of the PL480 program, the fundamental source of materials from South Asia for U.S. libraries. Chicago has the most comprehensive acquisitions profile of any participant in the cooperative program, including the
Library of Congress.
5.C.2) Accessibility of library holdings. For scholars interested in access to materials without
actually visiting Chicago, most items can be obtained through interlibrary loan. Furthermore, as
demonstrated in the previous description of the Digital South Asia Library and Digital Diction-
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C21 aries of South Asia projects, the projects provide many materials via the Internet in the form of full-text documents or scanned images. The USED funding requested for the library is to maintain its preeminence in acquisitions in all South Asian languages and its capacity to serve regional and national scholars via inter-library loan.
6. Quality of Staff Resources
6.A.1) Qualification, career development, and time commitment. The Center's sixty-one fac- ulty and twelve staff comprise a formidable aggregation of South Asia competencies. As dem- onstrated in Appendix C, this group represents several disciplines in the humanities, social and natural sciences, and professional schools and offers expertise in virtually every region of South
Asia. During the past four years the University increased the number of South Asian languages offered on a regular basis from eight to eleven. This year's faculty appointments included eminent specialists in Buddhist, Islamic, and Persian studies in the Divinity School, Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations, and Art History.
The most recent National Research Council (NRC) evaluation of Ph.D. programs reveals the extraordinary quality, productivity, and effectiveness of the faculty. It quantifies Chicago's status as a major force in post-baccalaureate education. According to the NRC, Chicago has eighteen graduate programs ranked within the top ten in the nation. Core faculty in many of those top-ranked departments identify South Asia as their primary research focus, conduct fieldwork throughout the region, and use regional case studies in their curriculum.
Conventional measures of academic productivity and standing within the disciplines, such as publications, research fellowships and peer-reviewed grants, underscore the national and inter- national stature of the faculty. Since 2002, South Asia faculty have been awarded sixteen major grants from federal agencies, private foundations and other competitive grant programs. Funding sources have included the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Hu-
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C22 manities, and the Ford, Guggenheim, and Mellon Foundations, among others. The diverse, ex- tensive, and multidisciplinary array of recent book titles and articles produced by the faculty is enumerated in Appendix C.
6.A.2) Opportunities for career development and overseas experience. Chicago provides sig-
nificant professional development opportunities for faculty, such as funds for participation in na-
tional conferences, competitive internal grant programs to seed research, and support for faculty release time. Junior faculty receive release time for research before tenure review and sabbatical
programs sustain the institutional commitment to faculty research.
The Committee on Southern Asian Studies provides support for faculty travel to conferences
and research travel to South Asia by up to four faculty each year. In addition, the Provost, Divi-
sional Deans and the Center for International Studies have competitive programs for overseas
research grants targeted to junior faculty. Some departments, such as Anthropology and History,
have endowed funds for faculty research.
Despite these opportunities for professional development, USED funds are important for
faculty and librarian travel to South Asia to establish linkages with local professionals, initiate
new research programs, and gather materials for curricular innovations that have been critical to
research and pedagogy in various disciplines. Given the disproportionate impact of these small
travel grants, we request funds for a total of four trips to South Asia. One trip will be closely
related to further development of the College program in India and the other three will be for
library acquisitions (Timeline 31 & 35 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, C.2).
6.A.3) Time commitment. Faculty specializing in South Asia in the social science departments
and professional schools usually devote from twenty-five to fifty percent of their teaching and
advising time to South Asian studies while humanists teaching South Asian languages and
literatures devote full time. The following figures suggest the distribution.
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Percent and number of persons: 100% 30 75% 4 50% 10 25% 17
During the current funding cycle, the position of Assistant Director of Southern Asian Studies was converted to full-time Associate Director. In addition, Program Coordinator for the South
Asia Outreach Educational Project, a part-time position, was converted into the full-time
Outreach and Campus Program Coordinator for Southern Asian Studies (Budget Yrs. 1-4, A.1 &
A.4).
6.B.1) Center oversight. A seven-member Executive Committee chaired by the Center Director governs the Center. Members include the Center’s Director, Nye (Bibliographer, Library); As- sociate Director, Noble (Tamil literature); Chair of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies,
Luhrmann (Human Development); Chair of the Department of South Asian Languages and Civi- lizations, Doniger (Religion and Sanskrit literature); a representative from the Division of Social
Sciences, Kelly (Anthropology); a representative from the Division of Humanities, Seely
(Bengali literature); and Director of the Center for International Studies, Morrison
(Anthropology), ex officio.
The Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS) provides governance for the common activities of the South Asia program and makes recommendations to the Center’s Executive
Committee. COSAS is an interdisciplinary committee which meets on a quarterly basis to allo- cate budgets; select programs to support; award fellowships; and affiliate associate members.
The Committee runs a cross-disciplinary weekly seminar. It was and is the recipient of major gifts and grants for South Asian studies and has available an endowment of more than twelve million dollars. COSAS includes all faculty members teaching about South Asia from the participating disciplines and the professional schools as well as the South Asia bibliographer.
The chair is elected for a three-year term. The Center Director reports to the Committee and consults on use of Center funds.
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6.B.2) Staffing administration and outreach. James Nye, Bibliographer for Southern Asia, is
Center Director. His service is treated as part of his ordinary academic obligations. Administra-
tive staff, each of whom is fluent in at least one South Asian language, include: Dr. Sally Noble, full-time Associate Director, principally responsible for grant administration, student advising, staff supervision, and management; Sarah Neilson, Outreach and Program Coordinator, an M.A. in South Asia studies; and four graduate students working part-time in the Outreach and Center administration offices. (Please see Appendix C for brief biographical information on all staff.)
6.C) Removing obstacles to equal treatment of faculty and staff. The minorities whose repre-
sentations are most often the subjects of discussion in our context are South Asians, who have
sometimes been excluded in a field of special concern to them, and women. Of Asians, the
Center has six full professors, two associate professors, two assistant professors, and nine
lecturers. The Center has seventeen women of whom five are full professors, one associate
professor, four assistant professors, and seven lecturers. Special efforts are made to alert
women's networks and to bring job opportunities to the attention of professional conferences and
meetings that include potential candidates of South Asian extraction. These efforts to attract a
diverse pool of applicants were most recently exhibited in our searches for appointments in the
Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. From a pleasingly large pool of
applicants (more than 37% were minorities and 57% were women) three of the appointments
were made to women, two of whom are minorities, and two to men.
The University has a policy of affirmative action and equal opportunity for employment,
forbidding discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or
ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status. This policy is widely disseminated through
announcements in all relevant media and internal enforcement is monitored by an affirmative
action officer. Equitable access is ensured, as noted in the attachment on GEPA.
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7. Outreach Activities
South Asia Outreach is an essential liaison between the University of Chicago's faculty, the
Center staff, and the wider community. Outreach presents workshops, exhibits, films, and
lecture programs in schools, colleges, and public forums. Twice each year the Center publishes
the Chicago South Asia Newsletter for distribution to 2,800 readers in the U.S. and abroad. The
Newsletter is also published on the Internet. During the next four years the Center will expand
coverage of teaching resources and other material in the Newsletter, increasing each issue from
twelve to twenty pages. The Outreach office maintains an e-mail listserv with 600 subscribers
for twice-weekly announcements of University and community-based educational and cultural
events related to South Asia. The listserv represents the activities of from five to twenty
organizations in each mailing. Outreach handles a large number of inquiries, totaling about 200 per quarter. The South Asia Center Web site currently receives approximately 1,500 unique
visits per month, with about half of those visits ending at Outreach pages.
During the past five years, the Center has increasingly worked in collaboration with the other
area centers on campus and with community educational programs. The Center for International
Studies (CIS) hired a full-time Area Center Coordinator in 2002 to assist Chicago's area centers in planning and implementing collaborative outreach activities. The South Asia Center has also strengthened its relationships and developed joint outreach initiatives with International House of
Chicago.
Asia in Chicago is an ongoing series of Asia-related programs in Chicago co-sponsored by the Asia Society, The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and the University’s South Asia and East Asia centers. The institutions have worked together since 2001 to bring Chicago audiences high-quality programming about Asia. Asia in Chicago includes policy and business- related programs and cultural programs geared to all of the audiences deemed important to a
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Title VI outreach program. The South Asia Center, besides granting modest financial support, provides substantial content advising, programming assistance, and publicity. Chicago’s
Associate Director of South Asian Studies serves on the Asia in Chicago steering committee
(Timeline 43 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.2.e).
Faculty are directly involved in outreach activities. South Asianists from Chicago participate in public lectures, provide interviews for the media, and advise government and business making distinctive contributions to the national understanding of the subcontinent. Our faculty are engaged in critical discussions regarding the contribution of language and area studies to our national understanding of the world and the regions currently in conflict.
As recommended by our external evaluator in 2002, the position of Program Coordinator, with outreach responsibilities, was expanded in 2004 from half- to full-time. We request funds for local transportation of Outreach staff to schools in the region, as recommended by the evaluator (Budget Yrs. 1-4, C.1).
7.A) Elementary and secondary school outreach. Outreach to school teachers is a serious focus
for the University. The Center has met and surpassed its stated goals for educational Outreach
during the current funding cycle. Programs for teachers during the past four years have included
workshops on Islam in the Middle East and South Asia (in collaboration with the University’s
Center for Middle Eastern Studies); Indian literature in translation; and boundary and identity
issues in South Asia. In addition, all five campus area centers co-sponsored teacher workshops
on globalization and on the impacts of media and popular culture. South Asia faculty were ac-
tively involved in planning and making presentations to teachers at each of those five workshops.
Further, the Outreach and Program Coordinator has actively participated in the newly launched
South Asia National Outreach Committee, a partnership with the other South Asia NRC
Outreach offices intended to support teachers and teacher education.
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More than ninety teachers participated in the Center's workshops and seminars during the past three years, with an impact extending to more than 3,000 students. In recent months, CIS has worked closely with the South Asia Center to deliver new on-line curriculum resources for teachers.
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad programs are a special part of the Center's mission. The Center's Associate Director led programs in India during 2001 and 2003, each of which included twelve teachers from local public and parochial schools. The Center regularly conducts follow-up workshops with the returned Group Project teachers. Importantly, these twenty-four teachers have an impact on an estimated 1,800 students each year. The Center’s
Associate Director and Outreach Coordinator have also participated in two conferences during the current triennium for secondary and post-secondary educators returning from Group Projects
Abroad. Those conferences were organized in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-
Madison South Asia Center, the United States Educational Foundation in India, and the United
States Department of Education. The Center plans to continue leading a Group Project in India program every other year (Timeline 39).
Coordination with local school administrators ensures that workshop participants receive appropriate professional credit. The University is an approved provider of professional development and teacher certification renewal courses by the Illinois State Board of Education
(ISBE). All teacher-education programs are pre-approved by the ISBE and the Chicago Public
Schools Teachers Academy for Professional Development.
At the invitation of the United States Educational Foundation in India and the U.S.
Department of Education, Nye will be responsible for pre-departure training of high school librarians traveling to India during the summer 2006. He will also meet several times with participants during their educational tour in India.
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7.B) Outreach to post secondary institutions. Chicago is well positioned to provide post-
secondary outreach because of the faculty’s national and international activities and reputation.
Chicago scholars organize meetings and conferences through which college teachers with area interests have opportunities to keep abreast of a changing South Asia. The Outreach office played a key role during the past two years in implementing and publicizing two scholarly conferences on South Asian history. Those conferences featured twenty-six visiting scholars and attracted high school teachers, faculty members, and visitors from several Chicago area and
Midwestern universities. More recently, in November 2005, a conference on "India:
Implementing Pluralism and Democracy" engaged twenty-six eminent scholars in reflection on the condition of the world's largest democracy. The three-day event was well advertised to educators and community members in the Chicago area and attracted more than 500 participants.
The South Asia Seminar and Workshop offer lectures by visiting scholars and Chicago fac- ulty which are open to academics from colleges and universities in the area as well as the public.
Attendance for the thirty events per year ranges between fifteen and forty-five people. The
Center has begun to advertise these events more widely to attract a larger number of college faculty from the area.
The South Asia Web resources developed by Chicago are important for our outreach to college faculty and students. These include such digitized materials as images, maps, documents, and recorded music. The most striking example, with nearly one million hits each month, is the University’s language-learning resources for less-commonly taught languages of the subcontinent that are available through the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia and the South
Asia Language Resource Center at Chicago (Timeline 11 & 14). Additionally, information on the Center’s extensive Outreach library, including an extensive video/DVD library and teaching
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C29 materials, is included on the Web site, alongside an archive of Center publications and links to local organizations with a South Asia focus.
The Visiting Scholar Travel Grants program will continue bringing college faculty to the
Chicago South Asia Library collection (Timeline 28 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.2.f).
7.C) Outreach to business, media, and the general public. The University’s renewed
engagement with the Chicago community provides an important context for the Center's
outreach activities. All South Asia events are open to the public and advertised to the
community. The Asia in Chicago program described earlier in this section, our joint program
with Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, has included presentations by such notables Afghan
President Hamid Karzai and P. Chidambaram, the Indian Finance Minister, during the past two
years. The University’s Committee on Southern Asian Studies sponsors the Seminar and
Workshop and organizes concerts and cultural performances by ten or more visiting artists and musicians each year. Both the University’s Law School and Graduate School of Business regularly host conferences that bring to campus a variety of community members and scholars interested in South Asia. During the past three years, faculty made more than fifty public presentations in settings as diverse as the Law School, the Graham School of Continuing Educa- tion, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Field Museum, and venues in other cities.
The Center works closely with the Director of the University News Office. As a result, the faculty frequently lend their expertise to local and national media by giving interviews for T.V., radio, magazines, and newspapers. During the past three years this has included: CBS, NBC,
Public Television, National Public Radio, Voice of America, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago
Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, and Washington Post.
8. Program Planning and Budget
8.A) Proposed Activities: Their nature, quality, and purposes. The Timeline in Appendix A and
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Narrative Budget Justification (p. A6-A11 above) provide a succinct overview of proposed activities, almost all of which address priorities for this competition.
Collaborative workshops by the Chicago NRCs' outreach programs will address the absolute priority of teacher training. They will be targeted to several audiences: secondary and post- secondary educators engaged in developing international curricula, journalists, and other professionals. The NRCs and representatives of the workshop audiences will select a theme for each workshop that connects the needs of teachers with strengths and capacities at the
University. The week-long workshops will feature a day devoted to each of the Chicago NRC world areas. South Asia Outreach will conduct a bi-annual forum for curriculum development targeted to middle- and high-school teachers and conducted in conjunction with the American
Institute of Indian Studies and one of the schools of education in Chicago (Timeline 37 & 41 and
Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.2.a & b). Further, the Center will continue its successful post-secondary teacher training in conjunction with the University's Regional Worlds and Human Rights programs during the coming quadrennium (Timeline 40 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.2.c).
Proposed competitive priority activities are described in Section 11.
The Center proposes a program of activities to address all five invitational priorities for the
NRC program. Priority 1 – College students receive strong encouragement for foreign language study through an innovative and well-funded program of foreign language acquisition grants, the civilization abroad and language courses taught in India, the recently inaugurated Center for the
Study of Languages, and promotion of the South Asia Summer Language Institute. The NRC's
International Satellite TV Center further enhances language instruction in the less frequently taught languages (Timeline 2 & 13 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.1.c & e). Priority 2 – Faculty will develop and offer four new courses on Islam in South Asia. Persian and Urdu will be offered to the highest levels of proficiency (Timeline 3, 20 & 24 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.1.d). Priority 3 –
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The Center will conduct its curriculum development forum mentioned above in conjunction with one of the schools of education in Chicago. Education faculty as well as their students will participate along with teachers from Chicago schools (Timeline 41 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.2.b).
Priority 4 – Chicago has consistently excelled in collaboration. Our South Asia Center inaugurated and worked to sustain the Title VI South Asia Language Resource Center and the
South Asia Summer Language Institute. In addition to housing the AIIS and staffing that
American Overseas Research Center (AORC), the current President, Ralph Nicholas, is a
Chicago emeritus faculty member. Chicago is a full member of all AORCs in South Asia.
Further, the South Asia Center Director was a principal in the organization of the Center for
South Asia Libraries, one of the newest members of the Council of American Overseas Research
Centers. As a final example, Chicago is leading an initiative in collaboration with the American
Institute of Pakistan Studies to purchase and make accessible one of the great private Urdu collections in Pakistan (Timeline 10-12 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.1.a & b). Priority 5 – The extensive Outreach evaluation and planning effort proposed for the first year of the new funding cycle will permit the Center to expand and enhance its outreach to K-12 constituencies (Timeline
47 and Budget Yr. 1, E.3.b).
An important element in our bold plans to improve language competency and pedagogy is the University's new Center for the Study of Languages. It will provide equipment, space, and an expanded base of specialists in language pedagogy. These physical and human resources will enable South Asia language instructors to develop resources for proficiency-based instruction and tools for assessment of student proficiency (Timeline 10-12 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.1.a & b).
In addition to meeting the priorities above, we will undertake activities to strengthen the capacities of Chicago and the nation for South Asian studies. Those activities are described throughout this narrative, in the timeline, and the budget. Particularly noteworthy is the Center's
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C32 initiative to build upon its already considerable strengths and enhance Chicago as a national center of excellence for south Indian studies (Timeline 6 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.1.f)
8.B.1) Timeline for strengthening the program. The timeline in Appendix A represents the
Center’s major program development plans as described in this narrative.
8.B.2) Effective use of resources and personnel. The University has a reputation for efficiency in its use of resources. This is substantiated in the South Asia Center. USED support leverages continuing appointment of a full-time Associate Director and a full-time Outreach and Program
Coordinator. We expect even better effectiveness in the coming four years as a result of collaboration with Chicago’s other NRCs in coordinated approaches to outreach and through administrative assistance from the Center for International Studies.
8.C) Costs in relation to objectives. Chicago’s program is remarkable for 1) the high percentage
of requested USED funds applied to priority initiatives, 2) the University’s substantial contribu-
tion to the program, and 3) the large number of Ph.D.s trained. First, the Center will continue to
spend a large percentage of Title VI funds for the absolute priority on outreach and teacher
training – 17% of the budget over the next four years – and 73% of the budget for combined
absolute, competitive, and invitational priority activities. Second, the University paid over nine
and a half million dollars to match the approximately $600,500 that the Department of Education
allocated last year. By matching-fund criteria, this 17-to-1 ratio demonstrates that the
University supports the Center’s major financial requirements and our budget demonstrates that
federal money is effectively deployed for new initiatives and fellowships. Third, the fact that the
USED grant results in many Ph.D.s (forty-one over three years) with high placement rates,
demonstrates that money is effectively spent on educating the next generation of South Asia
educators.
8.D) Long-term impact on undergraduate, graduate, and professional training programs. The
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Center’s use of federal funds to seed new faculty positions in the social sciences, humanities, and language instruction will result in improved education for students at all levels and in all programs.
Enhanced collaboration with the College supports an innovative program of overseas study and intensive language instruction for undergraduates. Our creation of high quality pedagogical resources for language instruction on the Web in conjunction with the South Asia Language
Resource Center at Chicago will benefit students worldwide.
9. Impact and Evaluation
9.A.1) Enrollments, placement, participation, usage. Coursework on South Asia is offered to
students in nineteen departments and five professional schools (Table 3 and Appendix B). The
2004/05 academic year featured 688 course enrollments for undergraduate and 581 for graduate
students. Over the past three years Chicago has graduated 92 B.A.s, 70 M.A.s and 41 Ph.D.s
with South Asian concentrations as defined by the USED.
We have stressed that Chicago's most important role is as a teacher of teachers. The
University’s record of placement for South Table 7 Placement of Graduates, 2004/05 Asia graduates has been excellent. The Ph.D.s M.A.s & Ph.D.s B.A.s placed in higher education are the Center's Higher Education 10 - Federal Government 4 2 contribution to the next generation of training. Private Sector (for-profit) 1 4 Private Sector (not-for-profit) 3 6 To list a few, they are teaching at Yale, Loyola International Org. (in US) - 1 International Org. (outside US) - 1 at Chicago, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Syracuse, Graduate Study 11 10 Seeking Employment 1 4 Rutgers, Bates, Texas at Austin, Brown, Not Known 2 5
Macalester, Michigan, Kalamazoo, Berkeley, California Riverside, Pitzer, Chicago, and Delhi
University. The "Not for Profit" placements are at Amnesty International and the Rand
Corporation. Earlier graduates have been placed in highly visible government and not for profit
positions: Head of Intelligence and Research at the Department of State; Vice President of the Asia
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Society; South Asia Desk Officer, Department of State; First Secretary, U.S. Embassy, New Delhi;
President of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. The figure showing "graduate study" accounts for most of our M.A.s, who go on to the Ph.D. The figure may be read as future Ph.D.s.
We do know from a recent Gallup poll investigation that 95% of Chicago's undergraduates go on to post-collegiate education.
As demonstrated in Table 7, our graduates are well placed at the end of their programs. Other indices of success are also strong. In 2004/05, there were 165 graduate students of South Asia in all
South Asia departments. They ranged from first-year graduate students to seventh-year students writing dissertations.
Rates of participation in South Asia events and usage of center resources has been consistently strong and is presented in quantified form in the Center's regular reports using the EELIAS system.
Use of the South Asia library collection by readers in Chicago and elsewhere via inter-library loan exceeds that of our peer institutions.
9.A.2) Equal access. Section 6.C includes a statement on steps we have taken with respect to
faculty and staff to meet requirements for equal access and treatment for underrepresented
groups. We have employed the same approaches with respect to graduate students. (See addendum with "Information on Section 427 of GEPA".)
9.B.1) Comprehensive, objective evaluation plan. Previously the Center was evaluated every five
years by a team consisting of one inside and one or two outside evaluators. The University's Center
for International Studies (CIS) instituted a new evaluation plan during the previous triennium. In
the first year an ad hoc committee appointed by the Provost reviewed CIS and the five area centers.
They focused on the interconnections between Chicago's centers, CIS's coordinating and leadership
role, and the larger position of area studies on campus. The second year each center engaged an
external evaluator for three days on campus overlapping with those of the other centers to conduct a
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C35 comprehensive evaluation of each Center's program and the collaborations among Chicago's centers. Those categories used in the applications to the Department of Education guided the evaluators. They met confidentially with students, staff, faculty, and administrators. In the third year, Chicago's five area center directors functioned as a team to evaluate each Center. During this assessment the directors considered issues raised during the first two years in the light of changes already effected. They gave special attention to factors which would further enhance internal collaborative engagements between the Centers and advance the position of each area Center at the University. The University’s Center for International Studies paid half the expenses of this three-year evaluation program.
The Center plans to expand its program of evaluation in the next quadrennium. While continuing those elements of phased evaluation mentioned above, we will add external evaluations and planning sessions focused on South Asia Outreach during the first year and on language pedagogy and proficiency-based instruction during the third year (Timeline 46-50 and
Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.3.a-e).
The Center's administrative office maintains a database, updated each quarter, tracking enrollment, placement, financial operations, details of fellowship disbursement, attendance at conferences and meetings, usage of Center Outreach resources, faculty activity, and so forth.
This file enables us to provide objective and quantified evidence for our reports under GPRA
(Timeline 9, 26, 32, 36, 44, 45, and 53).
9.B.2) Role of evaluations in program improvement. The most recent external evaluation, by
Prof. Frank Conlon (History, Washington), was very positive. In his conclusion he noted that the
Center’s "contributions to the preparation of graduate students in a variety of fields and disciplines has helped to shape the entire profile of professional scholarship on South Asia in
North America. Beyond its long record as a successful recipient of Department of Education
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Title VI funding for its NRC and FLAS activities, it has enjoyed substantial additional funding from the endowment of COSAS in support of faculty, students, and outreach activities. The
[Library’s] South Asia facilities and resources are outstanding." His recommendations have been taken seriously by the University. To cite a few examples, 1) we have expanded our course offerings on Islam in modern South Asia and propose to expand them further, 2) expected reductions in the numbers of language teaching assistants have already been reversed, thanks in part to his recommendations, and 3) the number and levels of administrative and Outreach staff have been improved (Timeline 3 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, A.1).
Last year the Provost appointed John Lucy, a former Master of the Collegiate Social Sciences
Division, to review the South Asia Center. His assessment coincided with long-range planning undertaken by the Center and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies. Recommendations from the internal evaluator on implementing a set of metrics for tracing the Center's performance and his adroit suggestions on working with deans and departments to replace faculty who have retired or departed were deployed with considerable success last year and this year, resulting in several new faculty appointments and effective action by divisional deans to prevent departures by senior faculty.
9.B.3) Improved supply of specialists. Chicago's South Asia program has produced numerous
specialists in the world region who are well trained to make highly informed contributions in
their fields. Information and data presented in Section 9.A.1 are representative. Most of our
graduates teach in higher education while as many as one-third find employment in government
and the private sector. The proposed emphasis during the next four years on proficiency-based
language training will result in graduates who are even better equipped to perform well in their
chosen fields.
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10. FLAS Awardee Selection Procedures
The Center follows consistent, explicit procedures in its selection of FLAS fellowship recipi-
ents. It adheres to USED regulations and guidelines. The FLAS competition is advertised from
late November through the deadline in February. Approximately 8,000 students are reached
through informing departments and professional schools of the available awards, posting
campus-wide notifications in print media, and disseminating details of the competition through
the Center's electronic mail list, Web site, and databases. The application packets sent to new
students include information on FLAS and other fellowships. The Deans of Students also
carefully review applications for admission to the University for students who may be eligible
for FLAS support but who did not specifically apply for it. These applications are routinely
forwarded to the area committees. In addition, a FLAS workshop is conducted in January for all
students interested in applying for a grant.
New students and continuing students apply by submitting a one-page current project statement
and three letters of support, one from a language teacher. The full application packet is available to
students via a campus Web site. Applications are supported by student files which have been
thoroughly assessed and commented upon by the Deans of Students. Those files contain graduate and undergraduate transcripts, GRE scores, and recommendations of departments for other funding.
Students from professional schools are especially encouraged to apply. The Center annually receives 30-40 applications for twelve academic-year and seven summer awards.
Selection criteria include: 1) intellectual quality as measured by grades, standardized tests
(such as GREs), letters, and project proposal; 2) distribution across fields, languages, and areas; 3) language capability; 4) underrepresented categories of students; and 5) U.S. citizenship or
permanent residency status. Beginning in 2006 the Center will include as a selection criterion each
applicant's language skills as measured under a program of proficiency assessment to be developed
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C38 for South Asian languages taught at Chicago. (Please see Section 11.A.) In accordance with
USED expectations, students who already have language fluency equivalent to educated native speakers in the language for which the award is sought and incoming graduate students are given a low priority. Selection is by a faculty committee. A two-tiered system for selection has been carefully crafted over four decades to ensure that the best-qualified candidates receive FLAS support. A committee, appointed by the Center Director, includes representatives of disciplines and schools with the most applicants. Other faculty may participate if they wish. Files reviewed by the committee include the results of first tier reviews and ranking by each student's home department and Dean of Students. The committee, including a representative of each modern language and one for classical, discusses the case of each candidate and then prepares a list of recommended awardees in ranked order.
Both FLAS program competitive preference priorities are well addressed. All South Asian languages taught at Chicago qualify as less or least commonly taught and the overwhelming majority of our students are pursuing advanced levels of language proficiency, meeting the expectations of FLAS competitive priority 1. In accordance with FLAS competitive priority 2, an exception will be made to the University's preference for awards to in-residence students when reviewing applications from talented entering M.A. students who are likely to pursue government service or enter a professional field. Please see Section 11.
Timing for selection is as follows. The Director assembles the selection committee in February, before admissions decisions are announced, to decide on both year-long and summer grants. He reassesses the decisions in April after acceptances are known. On the basis of the rankings provided by the selection committee, the appropriate dean of students notifies alternative candidates of awards. The Director also promptly secures University funds for augmenting residues of FLAS funds to full awards.
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C39
The Center requests thirteen academic-year and six summer FLAS awards each year for the next quadrennium. This request is based upon the large number of highly qualified students for whom we have been unable to provide FLAS support.
11. Competitive Priorities
11.A) NRC Program Competitive Preference Priority. The South Asia Center will collaborate
with the South Asia Language Resource Center and pedagogy specialists at the University's
Center for the Study of Languages to develop measurements of student proficiency for the
South Asian languages taught at Chicago, all of which are less or least commonly taught
(Timeline 10 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, E.1.a). This assessment initiative will draw heavily upon the
innovative STAMP method developed by the Center for Applied Second Language Studies. The
Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP)5 is an on-line reading and writing
assessment tool created by the national Language Resource Center based at the University of
Oregon. It is, for each language, a criterion-referenced test based on a set of standards consistent
with ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. The system was developed to measure student proficiency
based upon authentic tasks. The South Asia Center's external evaluator for language will assess
progress on this assessment initiative (Timeline 49 and Budget Yr. 3, E.3.d).
As noted in Section 10, the proficiency assessment tools created will be used in selection for
FLAS awards. Further, the Center will make the proficiency-based assessment tools available
through the South Asia Language Resource Center for use elsewhere, including the South Asia
Summer Language Institute. The new tests for proficiency with South Asian languages will
assist USED in meeting its stated objective under GPRA for "FLAS Performance Measure 1".
11.B) FLAS Program Competitive Preference Priority 1. Chicago traditionally offers FLAS
fellowships to students who are at least at the intermediate level of proficiency. Most FLAS
5More information on STAMP is available at http://casls.uoregon.edu/stamp2.php.
University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 C40 fellows study language at advanced levels. The University does not use FLAS awards to attract students into the South Asia program, unlike some other universities, since other fellowships are available to support able in-coming doctoral students.
The University has the capacity to address this competitive priority more ably than any other
U.S. university. At least nine modern languages will be offered to the highest levels of proficiency during the academic year and we will support the South Asia Summer Language
Institute (Timeline 13, 16-25, 51-53 and Budget Yrs. 1-4, A.2). Further, the Center will seek funds over the next two years to offer Indo-Persian for students already proficient in Persian.
11.C) FLAS Program Competitive Preference Priority 2. The University plans to offer FLAS
fellowships to talented entering M.A. students likely to pursue government service or enter a professional field (Timeline 51-53 and FLAS Budget Yrs. 1-4). As noted in Section 10, an exception will be made to the University's preference for awards to in-residence students when reviewing applications from entering M.A. students.
The University recently expanded its capacity to train students for government service through its Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies. The Harris School has added new international programs and a major capital fund campaign led by a dynamic internationalist will add financial resources for further expansion of programming on Islamic studies. The appointment of a political scientist with South Asia specialization, expected later this year, will enhance capacity for training students interested in government service.
Additionally, the Graduate School of Business has redefined its international studies programs and reenergized support for its joint M.A. program with South Asian studies.
Appendix A Timeline University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 Post-grant Priority Year One Year Two Year Three Year Four Activity 2007 2008 2009 2010 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 1. South Asian Civilizations course abroad (Narrative 2.A.1, Budget C.2) 2. International Satellite TV Center (Narrative 8.A, Budget E.1.e) Inv. 3. Develop new courses -- Islam in South Asia (Narrative 2.B.1, Budget E.1.d) Inv. 4. Visiting faculty in the social sciences (Budget A.3) 5. Visiting faculty in the humanities (Budget A.3) 6. South India -- A center of excellence in Chicago (Narrative 8.A, South Asia Budget E.1.f) Area Curriculum Area 7. South Asia Seminars, weekly (Narrative 7.B) 8. South Asia Workshops, weekly (Narrative 7.B) 9. Assessment of area curriculum for GPRA report (Narrative 9.B.1) ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲
10. Planning for proficiency-based instruction and measurement of Com. student proficiency (Narrative 11.A, Budget E.1.a) 11. Create new language teaching materials (Narrative 8.A, Budget E.1.b) Com. 12. Leadership of South Asia Language Resource Center (Narrative 8.A) Inv. 13. Support the cooperative South Asia Summer Language Institute Inv. (Narrative 2.B.5, Budget E.1.c) 14. Creation of Web-based resources for language teaching and learning Com. (Narrative 8.A, Budget E.1.b) 15. Language study abroad program with the College (Narrative 8.A) Com. and Learning 16. Bengali instruction, beginning through advanced (Narrative 4.A.1) Com. Language Teaching 17. Hindi instruction, beginning through advanced (Narrative 4.A.1) Com. 18. Malayalam instruction, beginning through advanced (Narrative 4.A.1) Com. 19. Marathi instruction, beginning through advanced (Narrative 4.A.1, Com. Budget A.2) 20. Persian instruction, beginning through advanced (Narrative 4.A.1) Com.
Priorities – Abs. = Absolute priority, Com. = Competitive priority, Inv. = Invitational priority Sustained activity = █████ ; Event = ▲ D1 Appendix A Timeline University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 Post-grant Priority Year One Year Two Year Three Year Four Activity 2007 2008 2009 2010 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 21. Tamil instruction, beginning through advanced (Narrative 4.A.1) Com. 22. Telugu instruction, beginning through advanced (Narrative 4.A.1, Com. ing Budget A.2)
Teach 23. Tibetan instruction, beginning through advanced (Narrative 4.A.1) Com. 24. Urdu instruction, beginning through advanced (Narrative 4.A.1) Com. 25. Panjabi and Khowar offered on demand (Narrative 4.A.1) Com. Language and Learning (cont.) Learning and 26. Assess language teaching at Chicago and graduates teaching less- Com. ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ commonly-taught languages for GPRA report (Narrative 9.B.1) 27. Add bibliographic and full-text resources to Library Web site (Narrative 5.C.2) Inv. ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ 28. Grants awarded for travel to the Chicago South Asia Library collection ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ (Narrative 7.B, Budget E.2.f) 29. Engage a new acquisitions and cataloging assistant (Budget A.5)
Library 30. Enhance acquisitions (Narrative 5.C.1, Budget D.2) 31. Travel to South Asia for acquisitions (Narrative 4.A.2, Budget C.2) 32. Prepare GPRA report on library activities (Narrative 9.B.1) ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ 33. Staff travel to national outreach meetings (Narrative 7, Budget C.1) ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ 34. Career seminars offered for graduate students (Narrative 2.B.3) ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ 35. Travel to South Asia for College program (Narrative 6.A.2, Budget C.2)
Student Dev. 36. Quantitatively assess development for GPRA report (Narrative 9.B.1) Faculty, Staff, & Staff, Faculty, ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲
37. Collaborative workshops, a K-12 program (Narrative 8.A, Budget E.2.a) Abs. 38. Chicago South Asia Newsletter issued (Narrative 7, Budget D.1) Abs. ▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲
Outreach 39. Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad (Narrative 7.A) Abs.
Priorities – Abs. = Absolute priority, Com. = Competitive priority, Inv. = Invitational priority Sustained activity = █████ ; Event = ▲ D2 Appendix A Timeline University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 Post-grant Priority Year One Year Two Year Three Year Four Activity 2007 2008 2009 2010 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr 4 Qtr 1 Qtr 2 40. College faculty seminars offered (Narrative 7.B, Budget E.2.c) Abs. ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ 41. Curriculum development forum (Narrative 8.A, Budget E.2.b) Abs. 42. Film screenings and exhibitions to complement concurrent teacher training and other outreach activities (Narrative 7, Budget D.3 & E.2.d) 43. Asia in Chicago (Narrative 7, Budget E.2.e) Inv. ▲▲▲ ▲▲▲ ▲▲▲ ▲▲▲ 44. Outreach report for GPRA (Narrative 9.B.1) ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ 45. Performance reports submitted to US/ED (Narrative 9.B.1) ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ 46. Chicago non-center faculty evaluate Center (Narrative 9.B.1, Budget E.3.a) 47. External evaluation of South Asia Outreach (Narrative 9.B.1, Budget E.3.b) Abs. 48. External faculty evaluate Center and language program (Narrative 9.B.1, Budget E.3.c) 49. External evaluation of South Asia language instruction (Narrative 9.B.1, Com. Budget E.3.d) 50. Other Chicago area center directors evaluate Center (Narrative 9.B.1, Budget E.3.e) 51. Competition announced (Narrative 10) Com. ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ 52. Faculty review and determination of awards (Narrative 10, FLAS budget) Com. FLAS Evaluation (cont.) Outreach 53. GPRA report on FLAS awards (Narrative 9.B.1) ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲
Priorities – Abs. = Absolute priority, Com. = Competitive priority, Inv. = Invitational priority Sustained activity = █████ ; Event = ▲ D3 Appendix B: Course List and Enrollments page E1 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 Appendix B University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal
The following list includes courses offered during the 2004-05 academic year. The total of enrollments is 1,269. All courses appear under a single course number and department. Course listings for 2004-05 also include catalog cross-listed course numbers. All courses addressing India during the period prior to 1947 encompass what are now the independent nations Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. All courses included here have a minimum of 25% course content related to South Asia. Course credits are measured in units, with 100 units for each language and area course.
2004/05 05/06 06/07 Quarter Enrollment Course No. Course Title Instructor Offered UG G
Language Courses Bengali (Bangla) 10100 First-Year Bengali-1 Seely Fall 4 2 X X 10200 First-Year Bengali-2 Seely Winter 3 2 X X 10300 First-Year Bengali-3 Seely Spring 3 1 X X 20100 Second-Year Bengali-1 Seely Fall X X 20200 Second-Year Bengali-2 Seely Winter X X 20300 Second-Year Bengali-3 Seely Spring X X 30100 Third-Year Bengali-1 Seely Fall 1 0 X X 30200 Third-Year Bengali-2 Seely Winter 1 0 X X 30300 Third-Year Bengali-3 Seely Spring X X 40100 Fourth-Year Bengali-1 Seely Fall 0 1 X X 40200 Fourth-Year Bengali-2 Seely Winter 0 2 X X 40300 Fourth-Year Bengali-3 Seely Spring 0 1 X X 47900 Rdgs: Advanced Bengali Seely Winter 0 1 X X 47900 Rdgs: Advanced Bengali Seely Fall 0 1 X X 47902 Rdgs: Advanced Bengali-3 Seely Spring 0 2 X X
Hindi 10100 First-Year Hindi-1 Grunebaum Fall 11 4 X X 10200 First-Year Hindi-2 Grunebaum Winter 6 2 X X 10300 First-Year Hindi-3 Grunebaum Spring 3 2 X X 15000 Practical Hindi-Civ in India Mathur Fall 24 0 X X 20100 Second-Year Hindi-1 Huffer & Grunebaum Fall 9 1 X X 20200 Second-Year Hindi-2 Huffer & Grunebaum Winter 13 1 X X 20300 Second-Year Hindi-3 Huffer & Grunebaum Spring 11 1 X X 30100 Third-Year Hindi-1 Grunebaum & Ritter Fall 0 1 X X 30200 Third-Year Hindi-2 Grunebaum & Ritter Winter 0 1 X X 30300 Third-Year Hindi-3 Grunebaum & Ritter Spring X X 40100 Fourth-Year Hindi-1 Grunebaum & Ritter Fall 0 4 X X 40200 Fourth-Year Hindi-2 Grunebaum & Ritter Winter 1 2 X X 40300 Fourth-Year Hindi-3 Grunebaum & Ritter Spring 0 2 X X 47900 Rdgs: Advanced Hindi-1 Grunebaum & Stark Fall 0 1 X X 47900 Rdgs: Advanced Hindi-2 Grunebaum & Ritter Winter 0 1 47902 Rdgs: Advanced Hindi-3 Ritter Spring 0 1 X X Adv. Rdgs in Hindi: Braj Bhasha Ritter TBA X Adv. Rdgs-Hindi: Mod. Hindi Poetry Ritter TBA X Adv. Rdgs-Hindi/Urdu Identity Stark Winter X Appendix B: Course List and Enrollments page E2 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 2004/05 05/06 06/07 Quarter Enrollment Course No. Course Title Instructor Offered UG G Malayalam 10100 First-Year Malayalam-1 Kommattam Fall X X 10200 First-Year Malayalam-2 Kommattam Winter X X 10300 First-Year Malayalam-3 Kommattam Spring X X 20100 Second-Year Malayalam-1 Kommattam Fall X X 20200 Second-Year Malayalam-2 Kommattam Winter X X 20300 Second-Year Malayalam-3 Kommattam Spring X X
Marathi 10100 First-Year Marathi-1 Engblom Fall 2 0 X X 10200 First-Year Marathii-2 Engblom Winter 1 0 X X 10300 First-Year Marathi-3 Engblom Spring 1 0 X X 20100 Second-Year Marathi-1 Engblom Fall X X 20200 Second-Year Marathi-2 Engblom Winter 0 1 X X 20300 Second-Year Marathi-3 Engblom Spring 0 1 X X 30100 Third-Year Marathi-1 Engblom Fall 0 1 X X 30200 Third-Year Marathi-2 Engblom Winter 0 1 X X 30300 Third-Year Marathi-3 Engblom Spring 0 1 X X 47901 Advanced Readings in Marathi-2 Engblom Winter 0 1
Pali 10100 First-Year Pali-1 Collins Fall X X 10200 First-Year Pali-2 Collins Winter X X 10300 First-Year Pali-3 Collins Spring X X 20100 Second-Year Pali-1 Collins Fall X X 20200 Second-Year Pali-2 Collins Winter X X 20300 Second-Year Pali-3 Collins Spring X X
Panjabi 47900 Advanced Readings in Panjabi-1 Bashir Fall 0 1 47901 Advanced Reading in Panjabi-2 Bashir Winter 0 1 47902 Readings: Advanced Panjabi-3 Bashir Spring 0 1
Persian 10101 Elementary Persian-1 Ghahremani Fall 7 14 X X 10102 Elementary Persian-2 Ghahremani Winter 8 12 X X 10103 Elementary Persian-3 Ghahremani Spring 4 13 X X 20101 Intermediate Persian-1 Ghahremani Fall 2 9 X X 20102 Intermediate Persian-2 Ghahremani Winter 2 9 X X 20103 Intermediate Persian-3 Ghahremani Spring 1 6 X X 30220 Poetics and Politics-Persian/Iran Moayyad Spring 0 6 30328 Sa'di: Poetry and Prose-1 Moayyad Fall 0 3 X 30328 Sa'di: Poetry and Prose-2 Perry Winter 0 3 X X 30330 Persian Poetry: Nezamis Romance Moayyad Spring 0 2 30324 Persian Poetry: Mathnavi/Rumi Moayyad Fall 0 1 X X 30332 Persian Prose: Sufi Texts Moayyad Fall 30334 Persian Prose: Mirrors for Prince Moayyad Fall 0 1 30335 Persian Prose Moayyad Fall X X Nizami & Naser Khosrow-Delhi Moayyad TBA X Persian Literature: Rumi Moayyad TBA X Rdgs in Indo-Persian Literature Perry TBA X Appendix B: Course List and Enrollments page E3 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 2004/05 05/06 06/07 Quarter Enrollment Course No. Course Title Instructor Offered UG G Sanskrit 10100 First-Year Sanskrit-1 Leavitt & Wentworth Fall 2 8 X X 10200 First-Year Sanskrit-2 Leavitt & Wentworth Winter 2 5 X X 10300 First-Year Sanskrit-3 Leavitt & Wentworth Spring 1 5 X X 20100 Second-Year Sanskrit-1 Cox & Leavitt Summer 3 1 X 20100 Second-Year Sanskrit-1 Leavitt & Wentworth Fall 1 2 X X 20200 Second-Year Sanskrit-2 Doniger & Arnold Winter 1 0 X X 20200 Second-Year Sanskrit-2 Leavitt & Wentworth Spring 4 2 X X 20300 Second-Year Sanskrit-3 Collins Spring 0 1 X 20300 Second-Year Sanskrit-3 Cox & Wentworth Summer 4 2 X 30100 Third-Year Sanskrit-1 Leavitt & Bronner Fall 2 4 X X 30200 Third-Year Sanskrit-2 Pollock & Bronner Winter 2 4 X X 30300 Third-Year Sanskrit-3 Pollock & Bronner Spring 2 2 X X 40100 Fourth-Year Sanskrit-1 Pollock & Bronner Fall 1 1 X X 40200 Fourth-Year Sanskrit-2 Pollock & Bronner Winter 1 1 X X 40300 Fourth-Year Sanskrit-3 Pollock & Bronner Spring 0 1 X X 47902 Rdgs: Advanced Sanskrit-3 Pollock & Bronner Spring 0 3 X X 48401 Rdgs: Mahabharata Doniger Winter X X
Tamil 10100 First-Year Tamil-1 Lindholm Fall 6 2 X X 10200 First-Year Tamil-2 Lindholm Winter 2 2 X X 10300 First-Year Tamil-3 Lindholm Spring 1 2 X X 20100 Second-Year Tamil-1 Lindholm Fall 1 1 X X 20200 Second-Year Tamil-2 Lindholm Winter 0 1 X X 20300 Second-Year Tamil-3 Lindholm Spring 1 1 X X 30100 Third-Year Tamil-1 Lindholm & Ebeling Fall 1 0 X X 30200 Third-Year Tamil-2 Lindholm & Ebeling Winter 1 0 X X 30300 Third-Year Tamil-3 Lindholm & Ebeling Spring 1 0 X X 40100 Fourth-Year Tamil-1 Ebeling Fall X X 40200 Fourth-Year Tamil-2 Ebeling Winter X X 40300 Fourth-Year Tamil-3 Ebeling Spring X X 47900 Rdgs: Advanced Tamil Ebeling Fall X X 47900 Rdgs: Advanced Tamil Ebeling Winter X X 47900 Rdgs: Advanced Tamil Ebeling Spring X X 47902 Rdgs: Advanced Tamil-3 Lindholm Spring 1 0
Telugu 10100 First-Year Telugu-1 Katikaneni & Paturi Fall 1 1 X X 10200 First-Year Telugu-2 Katikaneni & Paturi Winter 1 1 X X 10300 First-Year Telugu-3 Katikaneni & Paturi Spring 1 1 X X 20100 Second-Year Telugu-1 Katikaneni & Paturi Fall 0 1 X X 20200 Second-Year Telugu-2 Paturi Winter X X 20300 Second-Year Telugu-3 Paturi Spring X X 30200 Third-Year Telugu-2 Katikaneni & Paturi Winter 0 1 X X 30300 Third-Year Telugu-3 Katikaneni & Paturi Spring 0 1 X X Rdgs: Advanced Telugu David Shulman TBA X Appendix B: Course List and Enrollments page E4 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 2004/05 05/06 06/07 Quarter Enrollment Course No. Course Title Instructor Offered UG G Tibetan 10100 First-Year Tibetan-1 Jorden Fall 3 1 X X 10200 First-Year Tibetan-2 Jorden Winter 3 1 X X 10300 First-Year Tibetan-3 Jorden Spring 2 1 X X 20100 Second-Year Tibetan-1 Jorden Fall 0 1 X X 20200 Second-Year Tibetan-2 Jorden Winter 0 1 X X 20300 Second-Year Tibetan-3 Jorden Spring 0 1 X X 38100 Rdgs: Classical Tibetan Wedemeyer & Kapstein Winter 0 2 X X HREL 52500
Urdu 10100 First-Year Urdu-1 Bashir Fall 4 2 X X 10200 First Year Urdu-2 Bashir Winter 3 2 X X 10300 First-Year Urdu-3 Bashir Spring 3 2 X X 20100 Second-Year Urdu-1 Bashir Fall 0 1 X X 20200 Second-Year Urdu-2 Bashir Winter 0 2 X X 20300 Second-Year Urdu-3 Bashir Spring 1 2 X X 30100 Third-Year Urdu-1 Alam Fall 0 1 X X 30200 Third-Year Urdu-2 Alam Winter 0 1 X X 30300 Third-Year Urdu-3 Alam Spring 0 1 X X 40100 Fourth-Year Urdu-1 Alam Fall X X 40200 Fourth-Year Urdu-2 Alam Winter X X 40300 Fourth-Year Urdu-3 Alam Spring X X 47900 Rdgs: Advanced Urdu Alam Winter 0 2 X X 47900 Rdgs: Advanced Urdu Alam Fall 0 3 X X 47902 Rdgs: Advanced Urdu-3 Alam Spring 0 2 48000 Readings in Urdu Naim Fall X X Readings in Urdu Historical Texts Alam TBA X X
Foreign Language Examination (Arrangements may be made for tests in any SA languages offered by SALC.) 2004-05 Examinations Administered: 71500 Bengali Arranged Spring 0 1 X X 75000 Hindi Arranged Fall 0 2 X X 82700 Sanskrit Arranged Fall 0 1 X X 82700 Sanskrit Arranged Winter 0 1 X X
Area Studies Courses
Anthropology 28500 Political Ecology Morrison Spring 7 5 ANTH 28500, ENST 28500 28700 The State in India Morrison Spring 13 6 X X ANST 28700, ANTH 48300, SALC 28700, SALC 39700 34804 Walden/Bhagavad Gita Friedrich Fall 6 9 X X 50% on each text SCTH 42200, MLAP 45300 34814 World Poetry-1 Friedrich Fall 8 0 X X 25% South Asia in Translation SCTH 32720 39205 Landscape: History & Placemaking Lycett Winter 3 5 X X Appendix B: Course List and Enrollments page E5 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 2004/05 05/06 06/07 Quarter Enrollment Course No. Course Title Instructor Offered UG G Anthropology (cont.) 41900 Crowds and Publics Mazzarella Winter 3 15 X X 50% Indian context 42601 Cultural Politics of Contemp India Mazzarella Fall 0 6 X X ANTH 42600, SALC 20900, SALC 30900 45600 When Cultures Collide Shweder Winter 0 7 X X 25% South Asia content PSYC 45300, HUDV45600, HMRT 35600 55300 Media in South Asia Mazzarella TBA X X 61700 Rdgs & Research in Anthro-SA Mazzarella Winter 0 1 61700 Rdgs & Research in Anthro-SA Mazzarella Spring 0 1 62800 Rdgs & Research in Anthro-SA Kelly Spring 0 2 63400 Rdgs & Research in Anthro-SA Nicholas Winter 0 1 Technology in Modern India Amrute Winter X Postcol. Predicaments in South Asia Mazzarella TBA X X Rdgs & Research in Anthro-SA Kelly TBA X Rdgs & Research in Anthro-SA Marriott TBA X X Indian Ocean Trace in Arch. Persp. Morrison TBA X 75% South Asia content
Divinity School 30200 Indian Philosophy-1 Arnold Winter 10 5 X HREL 30200, SALC 20901, SALC 30901 30300 Indian Philosophy-2 Kapstein & Arnold Spring 1 5 X HREL 30300 34800 Machiavelli & the Arthashastra Doniger & Tarcov Fall X SCTH 31740, PLSC 32115, RLST 27301, SALC 38303 35400 Hinduism: A Chronicle Doniger Fall X X SALC 38302, RLST 27401 41900 Storytelling in India Doniger Fall 10 15 SALC 25702, SALC 35702, SCTH 40700, ANTH 21510, ANTH 35110, HDCP 41050 42601 Imgng Death: Buddh. & Medv. West Kapstein Winter X 42701 Issues in Esoteric Buddhism Wedemeyer Winter 0 5 SALC 48300 44701 Ritual in South Asian Buddhism Wedemeyer Spring 0 7 45001 Studies in Buddhism: The Classics Wedemeyer Winter 0 1 SALC 48301 48000 Myth, Transvest/Transex Doniger Fall 1 0 X X 48001 Gandhi and the Challenge of Peace Prabhu Fall X 48700 Identity in Philosophy of Rel. Arnold Spring 0 5 50% South Asia content 48800 Issues in Buddhist Phil of Lang Arnold Spring 2 2 SALC 48310 50602 Buddhist Esoteric Verse Kapstein Spring 0 2 HREL 50602, SALC 50601 Appendix B: Course List and Enrollments page E6 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 2004/05 05/06 06/07 Quarter Enrollment Course No. Course Title Instructor Offered UG G Divinity School (cont.) 51800 Twenty Verses of the Vasubandhu Kapstein & Arnold & Winter X SALC 48304 Wedemeyer 52200 Problems in the Hist of Religions Doniger Winter 0 5 25% South Asia content Buddhist Epist.: Phil. Of Dharmakirti Arnold Spring X Seminar: Madhyamaka Arnold TBA X Aceticism & Civ: Hind, Budd, Jain Collins Fall X Introduction to Buddhism Collins Spring X Title to be announced. Doniger Fall X Title to be announced. Doniger Winter X Philosophies of India II Kapstein Winter X The Sutra of Vimalakirti Kapstein Winter X Indian Buddhism Wedemeyer TBA X Readings in Tibetan Literature Wedemeyer TBA X Tibetan Autobiography Wedemeyer TBA X Tibetan Buddhism Wedemeyer TBA X
English 25102 Colonial/Postcolonial Theory/Lit Lakshmi Fall 15 0
Gender Studies Gender and the Politics of Difference Majumdar TBA X
History 16600 Asian Identities: 1890-1945 Sartori Fall X 26800 Religion and Modernity in Film Inden Winter 10 6 HIST 26800, ANTH 21900, CMST 24300, CMST 34300, HIST 36800 62000 Coll: Nationalism in India Inden Autumn 0 4 69800 Coll: Hist of Collingwood’s Hist Inden Winter 0 1 82401 Seminar: South Asian History-1 Chakrabarty Fall 0 8 X SALC 40001 82402 Sem: South Asian History-2 Chakrabarty Winter 0 2 X SALC 40002 Postcolonial Theory Chakrabarty X
History of Culture 40700 History and Cultural Studies Chakrabarty Winter 0 26
Human Development 21000 Cultural Psychology Shweder Fall 16 5 X X 25% South Asia content PSCY 21100 23905 Emotion Across Cultures Chapin Spring 17 3 25% South Asia content 31000 Cultural Psychology Shweder Fall 1 27 X X 25% South Asia content PSCY 31100 31902 Self/Identity in S Asian Context Raval Winter 2 7 Clinical Ethnography Luhrmann TBA X Appendix B: Course List and Enrollments page E7 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 2004/05 05/06 06/07 Quarter Enrollment Course No. Course Title Instructor Offered UG G Humanities (College Courses: Taught by SA specialists. More courses than listed here may be offered by SALC faculty.) 11200 Rdgs in World Lit. Seely Spring 7 0 Rdgs in World Lit: Prose/Poetry Love Qutbuddin TBA X X Humanities Course TBA Bronner TBA X X Humanities Course TBA Ebeling TBA X X Humanities Course TBA Majumdar TBA X X Humanities Course TBA Stark TBA X X
Indo-European Linguistics 21500 Origin and Spread-Indo-Eur Langs Darden Fall 2 3 Intro to Indo-European Languages Darden Fall X X
International Studies 29500 Transnationalism/Postcolonialism Staff Fall X X South Asian Diasporas Amrute Spring X
Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences 47500 International History of Sport MacAloon & B. Spring 1 8 25% South Asia-Cricket history Majumdar
Master of Liberal Arts Program (Adult Education) 45300 Thoreau’s Walden & Bhagavad Gita Friedrich Fall 0 14 X X 45700 Adv Crs: Ancient India Doniger Fall 0 7 45300 Hinduism: a Chronicle Doniger Fall X Course Title TBA Doniger TBA X
Music 10200 Intro to World Music-2 Sections Bohlman & others Fall 44 6 X X 25% South Asia content 23706 Music of South Asia Bohlman Winter X
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations 20601 Intro to Islamic Civilization-1 Kadi Fall 27 2 X X 20602 Intro to Islamic Civilization-2 Perry Winter 29 1 X X Includes Mughal, Islam in SA NEHC 30602, SOSC 22100 20632 Legend & Folktale in Islamic Lit. Perry Fall X Texts in trans. including many texts of SA 20841 Islamic Political Thought: 700-1550 Turan Spring 5 3 NECH 30841 30672 Rdgs: Sufi Literature in Translation Qutbuddin Fall X Rdgs: Topics in Persian Literature Qutbuddin Fall X
Political Science 27600 War and the Nation State Mearsheimer Winter 9 21 25% South Asia content 41500 Nat’lism in the Age of Globalization Mearsheimer Spring 0 27 25% South Asia content Appendix B: Course List and Enrollments page E8 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 2004/05 05/06 06/07 Quarter Enrollment Course No. Course Title Instructor Offered UG G Psychology 23000 Cultural Psychology Shweder Fall 26 7 X X 25% South Asia content
Public Policy Studies 22300 Problems of Policy Implement. Taub Spring 42 2 X X 25% South Asia content PLSA 24900, PPHA 22300, SOSC 34000 50900 International Policy Practicum Wheelan Fall X 75% Culminates with trip to India
South Asian Languages and Civilizations (SALC is introducing a revised undergraduate major. Future course listings will also include B.A. major courses.) 20000 Rdgs in South Asia Studies-B.A. major Spring 1 0 20100 Intro to South Asian Civilizations-1 Pollock Spring 18 0 ANTH 20600, SALC 30500, SASC 20000, SOSC 23000 20100 Intro to South Asian Civilizations-1 Chandra Shobhi & Fall X X ANTH 24101, SASC 2000 others 20200 Intro to South Asian Civilizations-2 Muzaffar Winter 16 0 X X ANTH 24102, HIST 10900, SASC 20100, SOSC 23100 20500 Film in India Inden Fall 24 0 ANTH 26700, HIST 36700 SALC 30500,SASC 20500 23004 South Asian Civ in India-1 Lycett & others 24 0 X X 23005 South Asian Civ in India-2 24 0 X X 23006 South Asian Civ in India-3 24 0 X X Courses for 2004-05 Civ in India: State & Society in India Tirodkar Indian Literature Sattar History & Place in South India Lycett Hindi Language Mathur Courses for 2005-06 Civ in India: State & Society in India Morrison Hum-Indian Religion, Art, Lit Ritter History & Place in South India Lycett Hindi Language Mathur 20701 Postcolonial Theory Chakrabarty Fall 30 21 HIST 36601, HIST 26601, SALC 30701 22600 Literature of Bengal: English Seely Fall 3 0 SALC 32600 25900 Myth Transvest/Transex Doniger Fall 3 11 HREL 40800, SALC 35901, SCTH 35610, GNDR 40800 26701 Modern South Asian History Chakrabarty Winter 10 4 X SALC 32600 27700 Mughal India: Tradition/Transition Alam Spring X X Appendix B: Course List and Enrollments page E9 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS Proposal, 2006-2010 2004/05 05/06 06/07 Quarter Enrollment Course No. Course Title Instructor Offered UG G South Asian Languages and Civilizations (cont.) 29600 Asceticism/Civ: Buddhism/Hinduism Collins Spring 1 2 X 29700 Intro to Buddhism Collins Winter 9 0 X 29900 Informal Course Ritter Winter 1 0 38201 Soc History of Buddhism Collins Winter 3 0 39900 Informal Course: South Asia Muzaffar Winter 0 1 40002 Seminar: Postcolonial Theory Chakrabarty Winter 0 21 HIST 65903 40100 So Asian Texts/Critical Pract I Collins Fall X 40200 So Asian Texts/Critical Pract II Collins Winter X 40300 SALC PhD Exam Workshop Seely Spring 0 5 60100 Teaching South Asia Collins Fall X Cult./Politics of SA Islam, 1550-1850 Alam TBA X 18th C. India: Imp Powr & Region Alam TBA X South Asia Lang Instruct & Tech Chandra Shobhi Spring X Critics of Colonialism; Gandhi/Fanon Chakrabarty TBA X Introduction to Buddhism Collins Winter X Asceticism: Hindu, Buddhist Jain Collins Fall X Teaching South Asia Collins Winter X Bollywood India: Film & History Majumdar Winter X Critics of Inequality in India Majumdar Spring X Gender and the Politics of Difference Majumdar TBA X Gender and Lit. in South Asia Ritter TBA X Intro. to SA Civs: Religion, Art, Lit Ritter TBA X Reading Cultures: Travel Ritter TBA X Course to be determined David Shulman TBA X Print & the Info Rev-19th Stark Winter X Cult Identity: Hindi-Urdu Controver Stark Winter X Rdgs in South Asian Studies All quarters X X B.A. Paper Prep All quarters X X
Enrollment Totals 688 581 Appendix C Biographical Information University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
There are several noteworthy characteristics of the University’s South Asia faculty. First, many have appointments in more than one department or school. This is consonant with the range of their knowledge and interests. The summary below includes faculty and the departments in which they hold appointments. Second, all area faculty have a thorough knowledge of at least one South Asian language. They use this language knowledge in both their research and teaching. Third, all faculty have conducted field research in the region. Proficiency in South Asian languages is registered in the brief biographical data using a scale of 1 (novice) through 5 (superior).
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Statistical Overview of South Asia Faculty and Staff
Number of faculty Number of departments ...... 19 Professors ...... 32 Number of professional schools ...... 5 Associate Professors...... 3 Department chairs...... 2 Assistant Professors...... 14 Faculty with endowed professorships...... 16 Lecturers...... 12 Number of South Asia staff ...... 12 Languages regularly taught ...... 11 Languages taught on demand ...... 2
Distribution of faculty by percentage of effort devoted to South Asian studies: 30 with 100% effort 4 with 75% effort 10 with 50% effort 17 with 25% effort
Faculty teaching less-commonly-taught languages: 25, with 4 teaching assistants
Faculty teaching about Islamic civilizations or the related languages: 13
Emeriti faculty not currently teaching: 7
F1 Appendix C: Biographical Information page F2 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
NRC Director
1) NYE, James H., Bibliographer, Southern Asia Department, Joseph Regenstein Library. Director, South Asia Language and Area Center. Appointed 1984. Ph.D. candidate (South Asian Languages and Literature) University of Wisconsin; M.S. (Library Science) Drexel University, 1974; M.A.R. (History of Religions) Yale University, 1970; B.A. (Philosophy) Augsburg College, 1968. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Epic and puranic Sanskrit literature; application of computers to Indic textual problems; development of Indic scripts; bibliography of South Asia. South Asian languages: Hindi (3), Urdu (3), and Sanskrit (3). Overseas experience in South Asia: Semi-annual acquisitions trips (1987 - to date); Library assessments, India (1992-93); AIIS junior fellow, India (1982-83). Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2006): “Building a Multi-University Infrastructure and Digital Resources for the Teaching and Learning of South Asian Languages,” Web-based Instruction for Less Commonly Taught Languages. Palo Alto: Center for the Study of Language and Information. 2004: “A Union Catalogue for South Asia,” in National Library Services, ICONLIS 2004, ed. by H. K. Kaul. Kolkata: The National Library. 2000: with David Magier, “International Information Exchange: New Configurations for Library Collaboration in South Asian Studies,” Collection Management 24:215-240. Major grants: National Resource Center: 1999-2006, U.S. Department of Education, two grants for “Comprehensive National Resource Center for South Asia,” total of $3,066,421. Language Resource Center: 2002-2006, U.S. Department of Education, grant for “South Asia Language Resource Center,” $1,400,000. Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program: 2001, U.S. Department of Education, grant for a project in India, $50,375. American Overseas Research Center: 2002-2005, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Ford Foundation, planning grants for “The Center for South Asia Libraries,” $25,600; Council of American Overseas Research Centers, library survey grant, $25,000; Ford Foundation, grant for "South Asia Union Catalogue, Phase I," $90,000. Digital dictionary projects: 1999-2006, U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 605, two grants for two phases of “Digital Dictionaries of South Asia,” total of $974,412; Consortium on Language Teaching and Learning, grant for “Digital Dictionaries for Less Commonly Taught Languages of Pakistan,” $33,978. Digital library projects: 1997-2009, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation via Association of Research Libraries, grant for "The Digital South Asia Library: A Pilot Project," $62,700; U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 606, three grants for “Technological Information and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access,” total of $1,918,000. Preservation and access projects: 1985-1999, National Endowment for the Humanities, Department of Education, Title II-C, Wellcome Institute, Ford Foundation, and Kern Foundation, eleven grants for preservation of books and periodicals in English, Gujarati, Konkani, Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, and Urdu, total of $2,211,275. Selected memberships and professional offices: American Oriental Society (American Committee on South Asian Manuscripts, 1994-to date); Association for Asian Studies (Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, Executive Committee, 1988-1990; Editor of South Asia Library Notes and Queries, 1984-1988); Center for South Asia Libraries, Co-founder and Secretary/Treasurer, 2000-to date; Microfilming Indian Publications Project, Steering Committee, 1989-to date; Nineteenth Century South Asia Short Title Catalog Project, Steering Committee 1992-to date; South Asia Microform Project (Chair, 1989-1992, 1996-1999; Executive Committee, 1987-1992, 1996- 1999; Academic Coordinator for special projects, 1991-to date); Supervisor for Fulbright Library Interns from India, six-month internships, 1988, 1989. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F3 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
NRC Associate Director
2) NOBLE, Sally A., Associate Director, South Asia Language and Area Center and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies. Appointed 2000. Ph.D. (South Asia Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 1990; M.A. (South Asia Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 1980; B.A (Religion) Kalamazoo College, 1976. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Hinduism in South India; Tamil literature. South Asian language: Tamil (4) Overseas experience in South Asia: Associated Colleges of the Midwest Year in India, Madurai, India and travel to Nepal (1974-75); American Institute of Indian Studies Language Program, Madurai, India (1977-78); Personal travel in India, Sri Lanka, Maldives (1981); Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research, Madurai, India (1984-85); Group Leader Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, India (2001 and 2003). Major fellowships and grants: 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, for graduate studies, NDEA Title VI Language Fellowships; 1977-78, American Institute for Indian Studies Language Fellowship; 1984-85, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. In current position: 2001-02, U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, grant project in India, $50,375, with PI, James H. Nye. 2002-03, U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, grant project in India, $66,000, with PI, James H. Nye. Memberships and Professional Commitments: Association of Asian Studies, Member; Asia in Chicago-Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Steering Committee, 2002-present, India Roundtable 2004-present; Fulbright-Hays Group Project in India: Group Leader 2001 and 2003, tentatively scheduled for 2006.
Outreach Educational Program Coordinator
3) NEILSON, Sarah J., Program Coordinator, South Asia Outreach Educational Project and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies. Appointed 2004. M.A. (South Asian Studies) University of Washington, 1999; B.A (Religion) Bard College, 1994. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Colonial period; urban history; and architecture in India. South Asian language: Hindi (2) Overseas experience in South Asia: New York State Colleges Consortium for Study in India, student participant (1993); University of Virginia/Emory University Semester in India Program, Jodhpur, Assistant Director (Fall 1999); Personal travel and volunteer work (2000); Personal travel and research on independent filmmakers (2004). Major grants: Summer 1998, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Hindi. Memberships and Professional Commitments: Association for Asian Studies, Member; South Asia National Outreach Committee, Member; Fulbright-Hays Group Project in India Co-leader, tentatively scheduled for 2006. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F4 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
4) ALAM, Muzaffar, Carl Ducking Buck Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College. Appointed 2001. Tenured. Ph.D. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1976; M.Phil. A.M.U., Aligarh, 1970; M.A. A.M.U., Aligarh, 1969; B.A. Jamia Millia, New Delhi, 1967. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: History of religious/literary cultures pre-colonial northern India; Indo-Persian travel accounts; Islamic world as seen from an Indian perspective. South Asian languages: Urdu (5), Hindi, (5) and Persian (5). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Religion, society and politics in Northern India- c.1200-1600, Mughals in India; Third and Fourth-year Urdu; Advanced Readings in Urdu; Introduction to South Asian Civilizations, Part II (1000-1800AD). Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chair 2, Reader 11. Selected Distinctions: Nominated President of the Medieval Section, Indian History Congress 2000; Visiting Professor, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris; 1998; Directeur d’Etudes Associated, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1997 Selected recent publications: 2005: with S. Subrahmanyam. “The Afterlife of a Mughal Masnavi: The Tale of Nal and Daman in Urdu and Persian.” In A Wilderness of Possibilities: Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective, edited by Kathryn Hansen and David Lelyveld. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2004: The Languages of Political Islam in India: c.1200-1800. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; London: Hurst & Company; Delhi: Permanent Black. 2004: with S. Subrahmanyam. “Power in Prison: A Mughal Prince in Shahjahanabad, ca. 1800.” In De l’Arabie a l’Himalaya: Chemins Croises, en homage a Marc Gaborieau, edited by Veronique Bouillier and Catherine Servan-Schreiber. Paris: Masonneauve & Larose. 2003: “The Culture of Politics of Persian in Precolonial Hundustan.” In Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia, edited by Sheldon Pollock. Berkeley: University of California Press.
5) AMRUTE, Sareeta, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology. Century scholar lectureship, 2005-06. Ph.D. candidate (Anthropology) University of Chicago; M.A. (Anthropology) University of Chicago, 2001; B.A. (Art History) Columbia University, 1997. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: South Asian diaspora; anthropology of capitalism and exchange; nation-state and technology in India. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): South Asian Diasporas; Technology in Modern India; Self, Culture, and Society. Selected Distinctions: Society for Comparative Research Graduate Student Retreat Invited Participant, 2005; Department of Anthropology Starr Lectureship, “Technology in Modern India,” Winter 2005-06; NSF Graduate Student Fellowship Honorable Mention, 1999. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: Good Practices and Recommendations for Refugee Decentralization in the European Union. Berlin: Edition Parabolis. 2004: “The Migration and Humanitarian Programs of Australia,” In Migration Policies in Comparative Perspective, edited by Jochen Blaschke. Berlin: Edition Parabolis. 2002: with Shannon Pfomann. “Introduction” and “Towards Harmonization: Burden Sharing and Decentralization in Austria.” In Refugee Reception Procedures in the European Union, edited by Jochen Blaschke. Berlin: Edition Parabolis. 2002: with Natalie Schlenzka. “Refugee Decentralization: Denmark.” In Refugee Reception Procedures in the European Union,edited by Jochen Blaschke. Berlin: Edition Parabolis. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F5 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
6) ARNOLD, Daniel, Assistant Professor, Divinity School and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2004. Untenured. Ph.D. (Divinity) University of Chicago, 2002; M.A. (Theology and Philosophy of Religions) Iliff School of Theology, 1997; M.A. (Indic Languages & Cultural History) Columbia University, 1991; B.A. (History) Carleton College, 1988. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Philosophy of religion; Indian philosophy; Buddhist epistemologists; Sanskrit. South Asian languages: Sanskrit (5) and Tibetan (3). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Sanskrit (Second-year intensive), Indian Philosophy, Buddhist Epistemology, The Twenty Verses of Vasubandhu. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Reader 1. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion. Columbia University Press. 2005: “Is svasamvitti transcendental? A tentative reconstruction following Śāntaraksita,” Asian Philosophy, 15(1). 2003: “Candrakirti on Dignaga on Svalaksanas,” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 26(1). 2003: “Verses on Nonconceptual Awareness: A Close Reading of Mahayanasamgraha 8.2-13,” Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 4. 2001: “Intrinsic Validity Reconsidered: A Sympathetic Study of the Mimamsaka Inversion of Buddhist Epistemology,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 29(5-6): 589-675. 2001: “How to Do Things with Candrakirti: A Comparative Study in Anti-Skepticism,” Philosophy East and West 51/2: 247-279.
7) BAHL, Kali Charan, Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Department of Linguistics. Appointed 1967. Tenured. Ph.D. (Hindi, Linguistics) Panjab University, 1965; M.A. (Linguistics) Yale University, 1960; M.A. (Hindi) Panjab University, 1955. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Hindi language; bhakti literature of northern India; Indian oral legends; linguistics. South Asian languages: Hindi (5), Panjabi (5), and Rajasthani (5). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Hindi (First through Fourth-year) Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: The Verb, Its Status and Functions in Modern Hindi. Forthcoming: The Concept of Person and its Performance in Instances of Language Use in Modern Hindi. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1986: “Category of Number in Personal Pronouns in Hindi,” (in Hindi). In Hindi Bhasa Hi Rupa Samracana. Edited by Bholanatha Tivari. Dilli: Sahitya Sahakara, pp. 210-34. 1981: “The Twin (Yugala) Image of Radha-Krsna in the Bhakti Literature of Northern India and its Implication for the Riti Poetry in the Hindi Area,” Journal of South Asian Literature 19 (2). 1981: with C. Seely (ed.), Women, Politics and Literature in Bengal. Papers from the 13th Conference on Bengal Studies at the University of Chicago in 1977. East Lansing: Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F6 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
8) BASHIR, Elena, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Appointed 2000. Untenured. Ph.D. (Linguistics) University of Michigan, 1988; M.A.(Linguistics) University of Wisconsin, 1984; B.A. (English) University of California, 1961; B.A. (Slavic Languages and Literature) University of California, 1961. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Iranian and Indo-Aryan languages; Urdu; languages of Pakistan, grammar of Khowar; linguistics. South Asian languages researched: Balochi, Balti, Brahui, Burushaski, Shina, Kalasha, Khowar, Pashto, Wakhi. South Asian languages taught: Urdu (5), Hindi (5) and Panjabi (5). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Urdu, all levels. Other languages by arrangement. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2005): “The Influence of Persian on the Languages of Northwestern Pakistan.” In Encyclopaedia Iranica. Edited by Ehsah Yarshater. 2005: “Burushaski.” In Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Edited by Philipp Strazny. New York: Routledge. 2003: “Dardic.” In The Indo-Aryan Languages. Edited by G. Cardona. London: Routledge. 2001: "Khowar-Wakhi Contact Relationships” In Festschrift Helmut Nespital. Edited by D. Loenne. 2001. "Spatial Representation in Khowar" In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 2000: “A Thematic Survey of Burushaski Research,” History of Language 6(1).
9) BOHLMAN, Philip, Mary Werkman Professor of the Humanities and of Music, Department of Music and the College; Chair, Committee on Jewish Studies. Appointed 1987. Tenured. Ph.D. (Ethnomusicology/ Musicology) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984; M.M.(Ethnomusicology/ Musicology) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980; B.M. (Piano) University of Wisconsin, 1975. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Social history of music; "musical identity" in immigrant communities; ethnomusicology, musical cultures of Europe, America, Middle East, South Asia; music and religion; music and race. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Ethnomusicology; Music of South Asia, Music and Race, Music and Holocaust; Introduction to World Music Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chair 2, Reader 1. Selected Distinctions: Edward J. Dent Medal, Royal Music Association 1997; Outstanding Graduate Teaching (University of Chicago) 1999; Berlin Prize, American Academy of Berlin 2003; Werner Grilk Lecture in German Studies, University of Michigan, 2004; Alan P. Merriam Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2005; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethnomusicology and Ritual Studies, Yale University, 2006. Selected recent publications: 2004: “Music and Religion in India.” In The Encyclopedia of Religion. London: Macmillan. 2002: World Music: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002: “World Music at the End of History,” Ethno-musicology, 46(1). 2002: Land without Nightingales, Max Kade Institute. 2000: Music and the Racial Imagination, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F7 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
10) BRONNER, Yigal, Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2005. Untenured. Ph.D. (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 1999; B.A. (Indian Studies and Psychology) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1992. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Poetry of South Asia; Sanskrit poetry. South Asian languages: Sanskrit (5) and Tamil (3). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Sanskrit, all levels. Selected Distinctions: Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Grant for holding a month-long summer school on “Regional Sanskrit Literatures,” co-organized with Prof. David Shulman, 2005; Research Fellow and Head of Research Team, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, 2003-04. Selected recent publications: 2004: “Back to the Future: Appaya Diksita’s Kuvalayananda and the Rewriting of Sanskrit Poetics.” Wiener Zeitschrift fuer die Kunde Suedasiens, 48. 2003: “What is New and What is Navya: Sanskrit Poetics on the Eve of Colonialism.” Journal of Indian Philosophy, 30. 2001: with Lawrence McCrea. “The Poetics of Distortive Talk: Plot and Character in Ratnākara’s “Fifty Verbal Perversions.’” Journal of Indian Philosophy, 29(4). 2000: “Sanskrit Poetry in Search of a History: The Case of Ślesa.” Journal of Oriental Research, LXVIII-LXX, Dr. S. S. Janaki Commemoration Volume.
11) CHAKRABARTY, Dipesh, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of History and the College. Appointed 1995. Tenured. Faculty Fellow, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. Ph.D. (South Asian History) Australian National University, 1983; Diploma (Management) Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 1971; B.Sc. (Physics) Calcutta University, 1969. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Cultural interpretation of colonial and postcolonial India. South Asian language: Bengali (5). Overseas experience in South Asia: Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (1988); Visiting Professor of History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (2002-03). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Modern Indian Literature; History of Culture. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 12 Selected Distinctions: American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship (2005-06); Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004); Short-term Visiting Fellow, Humanities Institute, Princeton University (2002) Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2006): “In the Name of Politics.” In From the Colonial to the Postcolonial. Edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, and Andrew Sartori. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming (2006): From the Colonial to the Postcolonial. Edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, and Andrew Sartori. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2005: “Geschichte machen. After History - Vergangenheit archivieren, erfahren und zerstören.” Historische Anthropologie, 13(1). 2002: Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2002: Cosmopolitanisms, Guest co-editor with C. Breckenridge, S. Pollock and H. Bhabha. Durham: Duke University Press. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F8 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
12) CHANDRA SHOBHI, Prithvi, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2005-06; Postdoctoral Researcher, South Asia Language Resource Center, 2005-06. Ph.D. (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 2005; M.Phil. (History) Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1993; B.A. (History, Economics, English Literature) The University of Mysore, 1991. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: History of India; Kannada poetry and literature; the vacana movement. South Asian languages: Kannada (5), Hindi (4) and Sanskrit (3). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Introduction to South Asian Civilization; Language Pedagogy. Selected Distinctions: Postdoctoral Fellowship, SALRC, University of Chicago 2005-06; Visiting Associate Fellow, Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, 2001-02. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2006): Editor. The Flaming Feet: Essays on Dalit Movement by D. R. Nagaraj. Edited with an introduction. 2005: Advisory Editor, Poetry and Prose from Kannada by A. K. Ramanujan, (trans.) Molly Ramanujan and Krishnaraju. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2005: “Keeping Gods in Captivity.” Times of India, July 11, 2005. 2003: The Many Faces of Bahurupi. Script for five twenty-six minute episode of a documentary on Indian theatre traditions, commissioned by Doordarshan (Indian National Television). 2003: “Some Notes on Kannada Literary Cultures.” An afterword in Kannada to Visvatmaka Desi: Essays on Kannada Literature by Sheldon Pollock. Heggodu: Akshara Publishers.
13) COLLINS, Steven, Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College. Appointed 1990. Tenured. D.Phil. Oxford University, 1979; B.A. Oxford University, 1974. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Pali, Sanskrit language and literature; social and intellectual history of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia. South Asian languages: Sanskrit (4) and Pali (4). Overseas experience in South Asia: Research, India (1987, 1997); Research, Sri Lanka (1984, 1998); Research, Thailand (1998, 1999). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Pali (all levels); Sanskrit (Intermediate); South Asian Texts and Critical Practices; Social History of Buddhism and Selected Topics; Intro to Buddhism. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 4, Reader 15. Selected Distinctions: Board Member, Fragile Palm Leaves Project , Bangkok, 2002- to date; NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, 1997-98; Stuart Fellow, Princeton University, 1992. Selected recent publications: 2005: A Pali Grammar for Students. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books. 2004: with Lynn Teskey Denton. Female Ascetics in Hinduism. State University of New York Press. 2001: Agganna Sutta:The Discourse on What is Primary: An Annotated Translation from Pali. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. 1997: Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities: Utopias of the Pali Imaginaire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996: "The Body in Theravada Buddhist Monasticism." In The Body: Comparative Studies in Spiritual and Devotional Practices. Edited by S. Coakley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F9 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
14) DONIGER, Wendy, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor, Director of the Martin Marty Center, Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Committees on Ancient Mediterranean World and Social Thought, and the College. Appointed 1978. Tenured. D. Phil. (Oriental Studies) Oxford University, 1973; Ph.D. (Sanskrit and Indian Studies) Harvard University, 1968; M.A. Harvard University; B.A. Radcliffe College, 1962. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 75%. Research interests: Hindu myths; psychology and sex; texts about women, animals and evil; the Mahabharata and the Puranas; translation of religious texts. South Asian language: Sanskrit (5). Overseas experience in South Asia: AIIS Fellowship research on horses, Pune and Madras, 1996; AIIS research fellow, India, 1963-64. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Storytelling in India; Readings in the Mahabharata; Sanskrit; Mythology of the Sexual Double; Hindu Mythology; Dream Narratives. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 18. Selected Distinctions: Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for The Bedtrick, 2002; PEN – Oakland literary award for excellence in multi-cultural literature, non-fiction, for Splitting the Difference, 2000; Past President, AAR and AAS; Fellow, American Philosophical Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Selected recent publications: 2005: The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005: Encyclopedia of Religion. (ed. Lindsay Jones), Macmillan 2005. Board of Editors. 2004: La trampa de la Yegua. Traducción de Damián Alou. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama. 2003: La Trappola della Giumenta. Trans. Vincenzo Vergiani. Milan: Adelphi Edizione. 2003: Kamasutra. Translated and Abridged by Wendy Doniger. Philadelphia and London: Runnig Press. 2002: with Sudhir Kakar, The Kamasutra of Vatsyayana. New Translation, Introduction and Commentary. London and New York: Oxford World Classics. 2000: The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
15) EBELING, Sascha, Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2005. Ph.D. (Indology) University of Cologne, 2005; M.A.(South Asian Area Studies) School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1998; Magister Artium. (Indology, General Linguistics, Romance Philology, and English Studies) University of Cologne, 1998. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Tamil language, literature, poetry, folktales; religion and state in Cambodia during the Angkor period, colonial history of South India. South Asian languages: Tamil (5), Malayalam (4) and Sanskrit (4). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Tamil (all levels), Tamil Literature; Comparative Literature; History of South India. Selected Distinctions: Theodor Fontane Award, Germany, 1997. Selected recent publications: 2004: “The Digital Archive of South Indian Inscriptions (DASI) – A First Report.” In South- Indian Horizons. Felicitation Volume for François Gros on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, Edited by Jean-Luc Chevillard and Eval Wilden. Pondicherry: Institut Français and EFEO. 2004: “Tamil Studies: Current Trends and Perspectives. Proceedings of the Panel 36 at the 17th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Heidelberg, September 9th to 14th, 2002,” NewKOLAM, 9 and 10. 1999: “Sechs Gedichte von Nīla Patmanāpan,” NewKOLAM, 3. 1999: “Ein Lleuchtender Stern am Firmament der Tamilliteratur,” NewKOLAM, 3. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F10 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
16) ENGBLOM, Philip, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Appointed 2002. Untenured. Ph.D. (South Asian Languages and Literature) University of Minnesota, 1983; B.A. (English) Rockford College, 1973. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Marathi language, Marathi poetry. South Asian language: Marathi (5) and Hindi (2). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Marathi: All sections first through fourth-year levels. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: “Fault Lines in the Discourse of Missions: The American Marathi Mission and the Scandinavian Alliance Mission in Bombay State.” In The Eleanor Zelliot Festschrift. Edited by Anne Feldhaus and Manu Bhagwan. Forthcoming: “Reading Jejuri and Aruna Kolatakaracya Kavita in Tandem.” In New Quest. Forthcoming: “Vithobas of the Marathi Literary Imaginary: Godbole’s Navnit and Lineages of the Modern Abhanga.” In Many Vithobas. Edited by Anne Feldhaus and Eleanor Zelliot. 2003: Translation Editor. Pandita Ramabai’s America. [The Conditions of Life in the United States and a Travelogue. Mumbai, 1889.] Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 2003: Editor. Marathi in Context. By M. Berntsen, S. Paranjpe, and Neeti Badve. Revised Edition. Chicago: Associated Colleges of the Midwest. 1999: “Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani and Nineteenth-Century Antecedents to Keshavsut.” In Writers, Editors and Reformers: Social and Political Transformations of Maharashtra. Edited by N.K. Wagle. New Delhi: Manohar.
17) FRIEDRICH, Paul, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology. Member of the Committee on Social Thought. Appointed 1962. Tenured. Ph.D. (Ethnology) Yale, 1957; M.A. (Russian) Harvard University, 1951; B.A. (General Studies) Harvard College, 1951. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Proto-Indo-European poetry, linguistics, semiotics, politics. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Walden/Gita Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 11, Reader 5. Selected Distinctions: Burlington Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 1999. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2006): The Gita Within Walden. 1997: Author of 35 entries in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Edited by J.P. Mallory and D.Q. Adams. Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F11 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
18) GHAHREMANI, Saeed, Lecturer of Persian, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2002. Untenured. Ph.D. (Comparative Literature) University of Toronto, 2004; M.A. (English) Goethe University, Frankfurt, 1988; B.A. (English Language and Literature) University of Mashhad, Iran, 1971. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 75% Research interests: Persian poetry and literature; Persian prosody; history of modern Iran; translation; comparative literature; Persian grammar and teaching and translating. South Asian language: Persian (5). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Persian language, Persian literature. Selected recent publications: 2003: Jān-bākhtegān be buy-e fardā’I now [‘Fallen, aspiring to a better tomorrow’]. Long poem. Germany: Noghteh Publications. 2003: A review of Kamran Talattof’s The Politics of Writing in Iran. A History of Modern Persian Literature (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000). The Middle East an South Asia Folklore Bulletin, 19(1). 2001: A review of Dr. Alice C. Hunsberger’s Nasir Khusraw, The Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher (London: 2000). Middle East Studies Bulletin, 35(2).
19) GRUNEBAUM, Jason, Lecturer in Hindi, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2004. Untenured. M.F.A. (Fiction Writing) Columbia University, 2004; B.A. (Comparative Literature/Translation and South Asian Studies) Brown University, 1995. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Translation of Hindi texts into English South Asian languages: Hindi (5) and Urdu (4) Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Hindi language. Selected Distinctions: PEN Translation Fund grant recipient, 2005; J. William Fulbright research grant to India, 1995-96; Dean’s Fellowship, Columbia University School of he Arts, 2002-04; Invited to present English translation of Uday Prakash’s Paul Gomra ka Scooter at Babel Study Group conference, UCLA, 2004. Selected recent publications: 2005: “The Girl with the Golden Parasol.” Translated from Uday Prakash’s Hindi. eXchanges, (Spring 2005). Appendix C: Biographical Information page F12 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
20) INDEN, Ronald B., Professor, Departments of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College. Appointed 1966. Tenured. Ph.D. (Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 1972.; M.A. (Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 1963; B.A. University of Chicago, 1961. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 75%. Research interests: History of ancient and medieval India; kingship in ancient India; history of Hinduism; Bengali caste and kinship; ritual and religion in South Asia, film in India. South Asian languages: Bengali (4), Sanskrit (4), Hindi (3). Overseas experience in South Asia: Research, Singapore (1999); AIIS research fellow, Kashmir (1983); Fieldwork, Bengal (1963-65). Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 12. Selected distinctions: Provost’s Award for Innovative Technology (1999); Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin (1996-97). Selected recent publications: 2005: Text and Practice: Essays on South Asian History. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2000: with J.S. Walters and Daud Ali, Querying the Medieval: Texts and the History of Practice in South East Asia. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999: “Transnational Class, Erotic Arcadia, and Commercial Utopia in Hindi Films.” In Image Journeys: Audio-Visual Media and Cultural Change in India, Edited by Christiane Brosius and Melissa Butcher, New Delhi: Sage Publications. Pp. 41-66. 1997: “Transcending Identities in Modern India’s World.” In Politics and the Ends of Identities. Edited by Kathryn Dean. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 64-100. 1995: “Embodying God: From Imperial Progresses to National Progress in India,” Economy and Society 24(2): 245-78. 1990: Imagining India. Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell.
21) JORDEN, Ngawang, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2000. Untenured. Ph.D., (Dept. of Sanskrit and Indian Studies) Harvard University, 2003; M.T.S. (Theological Studies) Harvard University, 1991; B.A. (Buddhist Philosophy), Sakya College, India, 1982. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research Interests: Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan language, world religions. South Asian language: Tibetan (5). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Tibetan: First and second-year; Introduction to Tibetan Civilization Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: Translation of Phung khams skye mched kyi rnam gzhag ji snyed shes bya’I sgo ‘byed’” [15th century text of Abhidharma study written by Gorampa]. 2000: Partial translation of the parables of 16 Arhats by Zhuchen Tshultrim Rinchen (1697- 1774). Provided for John Tate, London. (Possible publication, Wisdom Publications, Boston). 1997: “Shakya Mchog Ldan on Ultimate Truth” and “A Few Words on my Affiliation with Sakya College,” Sakya College Silver Jubilee Commemorative Magazine. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F13 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
22) KADI, Wadad, Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College. Appointed 1988. Tenured. Ph.D. American University in Beirut, 1973; M.A. American University in Beirut, 1969; B.A. American University in Beirut, 1965. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Islamic thought, political theory, prose and poetic alternatives; Qur’an and Arabic literature, Arabic manuscripts; Islamic civilization; biographical literature. South Asian language: Persian (2). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Introduction to Islam; Islam Heresiography Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 8. Selected Distinctions: Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago (1997-Present); King Faisal International Prize for Arabic Literature (1994). Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: "Early Islamic State Letters: The Question of Authenticity." In Late Antiquity and Early Islam. Edited by A. Cameron and L. Conrad. Princeton: The Darwin Press. Forthcoming: "The Impact of the Qur'an on Early Arabic Literature: The Case of 'Abd al-Hamid's Epistolography." In Approaches to the Qur'an. Edited by A. Shreef. University of London: School of Oriental and African Studies. 1999: Review of Basima Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa Classical Traditions and Modern Meanings (vol. 1) and Basima Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa: Eulogy's Bounty, Meaning's Abundance. An Anthology (vol.2), Edited by S. Speri and C. Schackle, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996) for the Journal of Islamic Studies 10.
23) KAPSTEIN, Matthew, Numata Visiting Professor, Divinity School; Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 1997. Tenured. Habilitation (Sciences Religieuses) École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, 2002; Ph.D. (Philosophy) Brown University, 1987; A.B. (Sanskrit) University of California, 1981. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Scholastic traditions of later Indian and Tibetan Buddhism; Tibetan Indian Buddhist art, ritual, meditation, yoga; Development of major systems of esoteric Buddhism. South Asian languages: Sanskrit (4), Tibetan (4.5), Hindi (3), Nepali (4) and Pali (3). Overseas experience in South Asia: Research, Tibet (1998); Research, Nepal, Delhi, Rajasthan (1996-1997); Committee on Scholarly Cooperation with China, India, Nepal (1992-93). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Classical Tibetan; Tibetan; Sanskrit; Readings in Philosophical Sanskrit; Imagining Death: Buddhism and the Medieval West; The Twenty Verses of Vasubandhu; Philosophies of India II; The Sutra of Vimalakirti. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chair 4, Reader 4. Selected Distinctions: Associate Director, project “Tibetan Language Digital Resources,” financed by the Department of Education 2000-03; Committee for Scholarly Communication with China 1998. Selected recent publications: 2004: The Presence of Light: Divine Radiance and Religious Experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004: “Pure Land Buddhism in Tibet?” In Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha, edited by Richard Payne and Kenneth Tanaka. University of Hawai’i Press. 2004: “The Strange Death of Pema the Demon-Tamer,” and “The Experience of Light and the Construction of Religious Experience.” In The Presence of Light, edited by Matthew Kapstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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24) KATIKANENI, Vimala Devi, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2002. Untenured. Ph.D. Candidate, Telugu University, Hyderabad; M.Phil. (Linguistics) Telugu University, Hyderabad, 1990; M.A. (Telugu) Osmania University, 1987; B.Sc. Osmania University, Hyderabad, 1983. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Chenchu (adivasi) language and culture; Folklore of Telangana; Language politics in Telugu South Asian language: Telugu (5). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Telugu (all levels). Selected recent publications: 2001: “Performing Art, Performing History: Analysis of Balanagammakatha,” presented at ESRC Project Seminar entitled Popular Performances and Social Change. 2000: “Language and Politics in Telugu: The Concept of ‘Dialect,’” presented at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL), Hyderabad.
25) KELLY, John Dunham, Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College. Master, Social Science Collegiate Division; Deputy Dean of the Division of Social Sciences; Associate Dean in the College. Appointed 1994. Tenured. Ph.D. (Anthropology) University of Chicago, 1988; M.A (Anthropology) University of Chicago, 1982; A.B. (Social Studies) Harvard University, 1980. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 50%. Research interests: Fiji Indians and overseas Indians; colonialism and capitalism; colonial discourse and practice; Indian semiotics and anthropology of knowledge; social and cultural theory. South Asian languages: Sanskrit (3), Hindi (2), and Fiji Hindi (4). Overseas experience in South Asia: Reading and Research, Pune (1990). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Ethnography of the Raj; Knowledge and Power in Ancient India. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 23, Reader 39. Selected Distinctions: Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2000-2001. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: Laws Like Bullets: Imagined Disorder and Law Giving in the British Empire. Durham: Duke University Press. Forthcoming: The Anthropology of Decolonization and Postcoloniality: A Reader. Co-edited with Martha Kaplan. Oxford: Blackwell. Forthcoming: The American Game: Baseball, The Nation-State, Decolonization and WorldDomination. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press. Forthcoming (2006): with Martha Kaplan, “Diaspora and Swaraj, Swaraj and Diaspora.” In From the Colonial to the Postcolonial. Edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, and Andrew Sartori. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2002: “Postcoloniality,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2002: “Alternative Modernities or an Alternative to Modernity: Getting Out of the Modernist Sublime.” In Critically Modern: Alterities, Alternatives, Anthropologies. Edited by Bruce M. Knauft. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. 2001: with Martha Kaplan, Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001: with Martha Kaplan, “Nation and Decolonization: Toward a New Anthropology of Nationalism.” Anthropological Theory 1(4): 419-37. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F15 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
26) KOMMATTAM, Nisha, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2005. Magister Artium. (Indology, English Studies, and Philosophy) University of Cologne, 2005. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100% Research interests: Gender and sexuality in Malayalam literature. South Asian languages: Malayalam (5) and Hindi (3). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Malayalam, all levels.
27) LEWIS, Franklin, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2005. Untenured. Ph.D. (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 1995; B.A. (Near Eastern Studies) U.C. Berkeley, 1983. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100% Research interests: Persian literature and poetry. South Asian language: Persian (5). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Persian. Selected Distinctions: Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Recognition, 2002-2003; Rumi Award, Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, 2001; British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Award for best book in the field of Middle Eastern Studies published in the United Kingdom, 2000. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: Reading, Writing and Recitation: Sanâ’I and the Origins of the Persian Ghazal, Beiturter Texte und Studien series/Iranische Welten, Orient-Institut der Deutsche Morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft. 2004: with Heshmat Moayyad. The Colossal Elephant and His Spiritual Feats: Shaykh Ahmad-e Jâm. The Life and Legendary Vita of a Popular Sufi Saint of the 12th Century. Costa Mesa: Mazda. 2004: “Persian Language and Literature.” In Encyclopaedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Edited by Richard Martin. New York: Macmillan Reference. 2000: Rumi: Past and Present, East and West. Oxford: One World Publications. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F16 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
28) LINCOLN, Bruce, Caroline E. Haskell Professor, Divinity School, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Committees on History of Culture and Ancient Mediterranean World; Associate Member, Depts. of Anthropology and Classical Languages and Literatures. Appointed 1992. Tenured. Ph.D. (History of Religions) University of Chicago, 1976; B.A. Haverford College, 1970. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Uses of religious ideology in the construction of empire; critical analyses of mythic discourse, ritual practice, and scholarly studies thereof; divination as a regime of truth. South Asian languages: Sanskrit (2), Old Persian (4), Avestan (3), and Pahlavi (3). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Zoroastrianism; Religion, Nationalism, and the State. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 7, Reader 16. Selected Distinctions: University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities, Doctor Philosophiae honoris causa, 2001; American Academy of Religions Award, Best Book, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, 2000. Selected recent publications: 2003: Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2002: “Isaac Newton and Oriental Jones on Myth, Ancient History, and the Relative Prestige of Peoples.” History of Religions 42(1): 1-19. 2001: “The Center of the World and the Origins of Life.” History of Religions 40(4): 311-327 2001: “Revisiting ‘Magical Fright.’” American Ethnologist 28(4): 778-802. 2000: “Death by Water: Strange Events by the Strymon (Persae 492-507) and the Categorical Opposition of East and West.” Classical Philology 95(1): 12-20.
29) LINDHOLM, James, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2002. Untenured. Ph.D. (Linguistics) University of Chicago, 1975; M.A. University of Chicago, 1970; B.A. (Zoology) Oberlin College, 1962. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100% Research interests: Translation of Tamil texts, development of Tamil-English dictionaries. South Asian languages: Tamil (5), Malayalam (3), and Sanskrit (3). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Tamil (all levels) Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: Digitization of audiotaped Tamil pedagogical and conversational material and subdivision into individual sentences and/or statement/response pairs for downloading to students’ personal audion (MP3) players. 1993: “Pain” [translated from the Tamil short story by Pumani]. Journal of South Asian Literature, 27(1). 1993: “The Cremation Ground Canto” [translated from the Tamil short story by Vannanilavan]. Journal of South Asian Literature, 27(1). 1992: “Purananuru” [translations of four poems on life and honor taken from the classical Tamil anthology of this name. In A Gift of Tamil: Translations from Tamil Literature in Honor of K. Paramasivam. Edited by Norman Cutler and Paula Richman. New Delhi: Manohar/ American Institute of Indian Studies. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F17 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
30) LUHRMANN, TANYA, Chair, Committee on South Asian Studies (2004- to date); Max Palevsky Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development (2004- to date); Committees on Human Development, History of Culture, and the College. Appointed 2000. Tenured. Ph.D. (Social Anthropology) Cambridge University, 1986; Research Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge University, 1985-89; M.Phil. (Social Anthropology) Cambridge University, 1982; B.A. (Folklore and Mythology) Harvard University, 1981. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25% Research interests: Ethnography of psyche; ethnography; psychiatric anthropology. South Asian language: Gujarati (1) Overseas Experience in South Asia: 1987-78 and 1990 Bombay; occasional conferences to date. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Classics in the Ethnography of Psyche; Ethnography; Psychiatric Anthropology; Mind; Self, Society and Culture; Clinical Ethnography. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 10, Reader 10. Selected Distinctions: Victor Turner Prize (2001) - Ethnographic Writing, Bryce Boyer Prize (2001) - Psychological Anthropology, Gradiva Award (2001) - Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis: Of two minds; NIH grant, “Models of Illness,” 2004. Selected recent publications: 2005: “Witchcraft in the Modern West.” In The Encyclopedia of Shamanism. Edited by M. Walter and E. Fridman. Volume II. 2005: “An Anthropological View of Psychiatry.” In Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, VIII. Edited by B. Sadock and V. Sadock. Vol. II. 2002: "Evils in the Sands of Time: Theology and Identity Politics among the Zoroastrian Parsis." Journal of Asian Studies 61(3): 861-891. 2000: "The Traumatized Social Self: The Parsi Predicament in Modern Bombay." In Culture Under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma in Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by A. Robben and M. Suarez-Orozco. Cambridge University Press.
31) LYCETT, Mark, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College. Appointed 1996. Untenured. Ph.D. (Anthropology) University of New Mexico, 1995; B.A. (Anthropology) University of New Mexico, 1983. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Archaeology, method and theory, analytical methods, ethnohistory, colonialism, demography, Western North America, South Asia. Overseas Experience in South Asia: Research Archaeologist, Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey, Karnataka, India (1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Readings in Archaeology and Colonialism; Archaeology of Place; History, Ethnohistory and Archaeology; South Asian Civilizations Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 6 Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: with K. D. Morrison, “Scales and Monumentalities: The Production of an Iron Age Landscape in North Interior Karnataka.” In Recent Research on the Archaeology and Bioanthropology of South India. Edited by V. V. Rami Reddy and K. D. Morrison. New Dehli: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. Forthcoming: with V.D. Gogte and K.D. Morrison, “Early Historic Metallurgy at VMS-110, A Specialized Iron Production Site.” In Recent Research on the Archaeology and Bioanthropology of South India, edited by V.V. Rami Reddy and K. D. Morrison. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi. 1997: with K.D. Morrison, “Inscriptions as Artifacts: Precolonial South India and the Analysis of Texts.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 4:215-237. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F18 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
32) MAJUMDAR, Rochona, Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2005. Untenured. Ph.D. (History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 2003; B.A..(Modern History) St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, 1995; B.A. (History) Presidency College, University of Calcutta, 1992. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: South Asian history; gender and sexuality; Bengali literature; postcolonial Indian writing; new imperial history post-colonial theory and criticism; Indian cinema. South Asian language: Bengali (5) and Hindi (4). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): South Asian History; Gender in the Non-West; Indian Literature: Postcolonial Indian writing in English; Post-Colonial Theory; Indian Cinema. Selected Distinctions: Whiting Dissertation Fellowship 2001-2002; Doctoral Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities 2001-2002; Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship 2001- 2002; Von Holst Prize Lecturer (Dept. of History, University of Chicago) 2001; Junior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies 1999-2000. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2006): “Rhetoric of Reform: A Case Study of the Hindu Code Bill, 1955-56.” In From the Colonial to the Postcolonial. Edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, and Andrew Sartori. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming (2006): From the Colonial to the Postcolonial. Edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, and Andrew Sartori. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2004: “Understanding Marriage Dowry,” www.history-compass.com, no. 2 (2004). 2003: “History of Women’s Rights: A Non-Historicist Reading,” Economic and Political Weekly, 30 May 2003. 2002: “’Self-Sacrifice’ versus ‘Self-Interest’: A Non-Historicist Reading of the History of Women’s Rights in India,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 22(1-2).
33) MARRIOTT, McKim, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology and the College. Appointed 1957. Tenured. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1955; A.M. University of Chicago, 1949. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 50%. Research interests: Ethnography; ethnosociology; ethnopsychology of South Asia. South Asian languages: Hindi (4) and Marathi (3) Overseas experience in South Asia: Research, Bangalore, Mysore and Madras (1985); Research, Bangalore and Mysore (1982); Research, Aligarh District, Uttar Pradesh (1950-52, 1968-69, 1978-79); Research, Maharashtra (1955-57). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Hindu Ethnosociology; Intensive Study of a Culture: Hindu; Hindu Cultural Studies; Readings and Research on South Asia. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 2, Reader 5. Selected recent publications: 2004: “Varna and jati.” In The Hindu World. Edited by Sushil Mittal and Gene R. Thursby. London and New York: Routledge. 2000: “Gender, Law, and Resistance in India,” Book Review, American Anthropologist 102(2): 398-399. 1998: "The Female Family Core Explored Ethnosociologically." Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s) 32. 1998: "India without Hindu Categories?" Review article (on Delcan Quigley The Interpretation of Caste). Journal of the American Oriental Society 118. 1990: Editor. India through Hindu Categories. New Delhi, Newbury Park and London: Sage Publications. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F19 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
34) MASICA, Colin, Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 1971. Tenured. Ph.D. (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 1971; M.A. (South Asia Regional Studies) University of Pennsylvania 1959; B.A. (Geography) University of Minnesota, 1953. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Hindi language and literature, Indo-Aryan languages, linguistics. South Asian languages: Hindi (5), Marathi (3), Gujarati (3), and Sanskrit (3) Overseas experience in South Asia: American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship for Study in India, 1981. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Reader 1. Selected recent publications: 1995: with Marc Picard. “The Indo-Aryan Languages.” Canadian Journal of Linguistics 40(2): 257-259. 1993: Indo Aryan Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1989: “South Asia.” In Oxford International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics. Henry Hoenigswald, Topic Editor; William Bright, Editor-in-Chief. 1989: "Areal Linguistics.” In Oxford International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics. Henry Hoenigswald, Topic Editor; William Bright, Editor-in-Chief. 1986: Edited with Bh. Krishnamurti and K. Anjani. South Asian Languages: Structure, Convergence, and Diglossia. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
35) MATHUR, Sudhir, Lecturer, South Asian Civilizations Course in India, the College. Appointed 2002. Untenured. Ph.D. (Linguistics); M.A.(Hindi). Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. South Asian language: Hindi (5). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Hindi language. Selected recent publications: 1997: The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary. Edited by R.S. McGregor and Sudhir Mathur. Oxford University Press. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F20 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
36) MAZZARELLA, William, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College. Appointed 2001. Untenured. Ph.D. (Socio-Cultural Anthropology) University of California, Berkeley, 2000; M.A. (Socio- Cultural Anthropology) University of California, Berkeley, 1994; B.A. (Social Anthropology/Social and Political Science) University of Cambridge, England, 1991. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Cultural politics of globalization; mass media; public culture and consumerism; critical theory; economic anthropology; commodity aesthetics; post-coloniality; South Asia. Overseas experience in South Asia: Fieldwork Bombay, Delhi and Bangalore 1997 – to date. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Media in South Asia; Postcolonial Predicaments in South Asia; Cultural Politics of Contemporary India. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 5 Selected recent publications: 2004: “Culture, Globalization, Mediation.” Annual Review of Anthropology, 33. 2003: Shoveling Smoke: The Production of Advertising and the Cultural Politics of Globalization in Contemporary India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2003: “Critical Publicity/Public Criticism: Reflections on Fieldwork in the Bombay Ad World.” Advertising Cultures, Edited by Timothy Malefyt. Oxford: Berg Publishers. 2003: “Very Bombay: Contending with the Global in an Indian Advertising Agency,’ Cultural Anthropology 18(1). 2002: “On the Relevance of Anthropology.” Anthropological Quarterly 75(3): 599-607. 2002: “Cindy at the Taj: Cultural Enclosure and Corporate Potentateship in an Era of Globalization.” In Everyday Life in South Asia, Edited by Sarah Lamb and Diane Mines. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2001: “Citizens Have Sex, Consumers Make Love: Marketing KamaSutra Condoms in Bombay.” In Asian Media Productions. Edited by Brian Moeran. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
37) MEARSHEIMER, John, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College; Co-Director of the Program on International Security Policy. Appointed 1982. Tenured. Ph.D. (Political Science) Cornell University 1980, M.A. (Government) Cornell University 1978, M.A. (International Relations) University of Southern California 1974, B.S. West Point 1970 Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Security issues; international politics; nuclear proliferation; American policy in South Asia and the Middle East. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Strategy: a Seminar on Great Power Politics; Comparative Case Study Method, Seminar on Realism. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 7, Reader 10. Selected Distinctions: Joseph Lepgold Book Prize for The Tragedy of Great Power Politics 2001, Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York 1998-1999, Recipient of the Edgar S. Furniss, Jr., Book Award for Conventional Deterrence (1983). Selected recent publications: 2005: “Zu Diesem Buch,” In Kenneth N. Waltz: Einfuehrung in seine Theorie and Auseinandersetzung mit seinen Kritikern. Edited by Carlo Masala. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 2005: “The More Isms the Better,” International Relations, 19(3). 2001: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: Norton. 2001: “Books - Kissinger's Wisdom ... and Advice - An Eminent Realist Reacts to the Pre- eminent Realist's Vision for 21st-Century Geopolitics.” The National Interest 65:123-129. 2001: “Essays – The Future of the American Pacifier.” Foreign Affairs 80(5):46-61. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F21 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
38) MIAN, Atif, Assistant Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business. Appointed 2001. Untenured. Ph.D. (Economics) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2001, B.S. (Mathematics and Computer Science) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1996. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Banking and corporate finance; emerging economies. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Corporation Finance Selected recent publications: 2005: with Asim Ijaz Khwaja, “Unchecked Intermediaries: Price Manipulation in an Emerging Stock Market,” Journal of financial economics. 78(1):203-241. 2001: Three essays in governance and banking. MIT.
39) MOAYYAD, Heshmat, Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College. Appointed 1965. Tenured. Ph.D. (Persian Literature and Islamic Studies) University of Frankfurt, 1958; L.L. (Persian and Arabic) Teheran University, 1949. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 50%. Research interests: Persian language; classical and modern Persian poetry, Sufi literature, modern Persian novelists and short story writers; history of Persian literature. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 4 South Asian languages: Persian (5) and Arabic (5). Overseas experience in South Asia: Manuscript research and lecture series, India (1988). Selected recent publications: 2004: With Franklin Lewis. The Colossal Elephant and His Spiritual Feats: Shaykh Ahmad-e Jâm. The Life and Legendary Vita of a Popular Sufi Saint of the 12th Century. Costa Mesa: Mazda. 2002: “Ta’mmoli dar Klidar” (Reflections on Doulatabadi’s novel Klidar). Daftar-e Honar 14: 1906-1913. 2001: “Pajuhesh va Pajuheshgaran-e Adab va Tarikh-e Iran dar Qarn-e Bistom” (Iranian Researchers and Methods of Academic Research in Literature and History in 20th century Iran). Khusheha 12: 21-32. 2001: “Pajuheshgaran-e Adabiyat va Tarikh as Qazvini ta Kadkani” (Distinguished Researchers in Literature and History of Iran from Muh, Qazvini to Muh, Reza Kadkani). Khusheha 12: 35-54. 2001: “Moqaddem‘i bar She’r-e Baha’ian-e Iran 1844-1950” (Introduction to Persian Poetry of Iranian Baha’is 1844-1950). Khusheha 12: 95-114. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F22 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
40) MORRISON, Kathleen D., Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College. Director, Center for International Studies. Appointed 1996. Tenured. Ph.D. (Anthropology) University of California, Berkeley, 1992; M.A. (Anthropology) University of New Mexico, 1986; B.A. (Anthropology) University of Notre Dame, 1984. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 50%. Research interests: South Asia; historical anthropology; colonialism and imperialism; archeo- botanical analysis, archaeology method and theory, agricultural organization and change, power and violence; landscape history. South Asian language: Hindi (1) Overseas experience in South Asia: Brahmagiri Re-Analysis project, Delhi, India (2000, 2002); Archaeological Research, Karnakata, India - Vijayanagar Metropolitan Survey, Karnataka, India (88-90, 92, 94, 96, 97, 1999); Principal Investigator, archaeological survey in Sri Lanka (1993). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): State and Society in South Asia, South Asia before the Buddha; Power in Ancient India; Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean Trade; The State in India; Archaeology of Empires, South Asian Civilization in India. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 19 Selected Distinctions: Fellow, Center for Adv. Study in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (2003-04), Board of Senior Fellows, University of Chicago Society of Fellows (2002- present), American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2000). Selected recent publications: 2005: “Brahmagiri Revisited: a Re-analysis of the South Indian Sequence.” In South Asian Archaeology 2001. Ed. C Jarrige and V. Lefèvre. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisatins-ADPF. 2004: Review of Archaeology and History: Early Settlements in the Andaman Islands, by Z. Cooper. Journal of Asian Studies, 63(4). 2002: Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-Term Histories, Co-editor with L.L. Junker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001: Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History, Co-editor with S.E. Alcock, T.N. Altroy, and C.M. Sinopoli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995: Fields of Victory: Vijayanagara and the Course of Intensification, Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility, No. 53, Berkeley.
41) NAIM, Choudhri Mohammed, Professor Emeritus, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 1961. Tenured. M.A. (Linguistics) University of California, 1961; M.A. (Urdu) Lucknow University, 1955; A.B. Lucknow University, 1954. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Urdu language and literature; Muslim community and politics in South Asia. South Asian languages: Hindi (5), Persian (3), Urdu (5). Overseas experience in South Asia: India (1990); AIIS research fellow, India (1981, 1984-85). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Urdu Language; Sufism in South Asia; Islamic Literature; Readings in Urdu. Selected recent publications: 2003: Urdu Texts and Contexts: The Selected Essays of C. M. Naim. Delhi: Permanent Black. 2003: “Ghalib’s Delhi: A Shamelessly Revisionist Look at Two Metaphors.” The Annual of Urdu Studies, 18(1). 1999: Zikr-i Mir: The Autobiography of the Eighteenth Century Mughal Poet Mir Muhammad Taqi ‘Mir’ (1723-1810). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1999: Introductory Urdu. Chicago: South Asia Language & Area Center, University of Chicago. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F23 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
42) NEWTON, Robert, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geophysical Sciences. Appointed 1971. Tenured. Ph.D. (Geology) University of California at Los Angeles, 1963. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Geology of South Indian shield. South Asian language: Bengali. (4) Overseas experience in South Asia: National Science Foundation grants for lectures at Mysore and Karnatak Universities (1993) Selected publications: 1990: “Fluids and Melting in the Archaean Deep Crust of Southern India.” In High Temperature Metamorphism and Crustal Anatexis. Edited by S.M. Naqvi. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 1987: with T. Chacko and G.R.R. Kumar, “Metamorphic P-T Conditions of the Kerala (South India) Khondalite Belt, a Granulite Facies Spuracrustral Terrain.” In Journal of Geology 95. 1986: with E.C. Hansen, “The South Indian-Sri Lanka High-Grade Terrain as a Possible Deep- Crustal Section.” In Geological Society of London Special Publications 25. 1984: with E.C. Hansen and A.S. Janardhan, “Fluid Inclusions in Rocks from the Amphibolite- Facies Gnesis to Charnockite Progression in Southern Karnataka, India: Direct Evidence Concerning Fluids of Granulite Metamorphism.” In Journal of Metmorphic Geology 2.
43) NICHOLAS, Ralph, William Rainey Harper Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology and the College; President, American Institute of Indian Studies (2002-2006). Appointed 1971. Tenured. Ph.D. (Anthropology) University of Chicago, 1962; M.A. (Anthropology) University of Chicago, 1958; B.A (Sociology and Anthropology) Wayne State University, 1957. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 50%. Research interests: Social and cultural anthropology of South Asia (West Bengal and Bangladesh); society and culture; agriculture and rural life; religion and ritual practice. South Asian language: Bengali (4). Overseas experience in South Asia: Annual visits to India since 1994. Member, Editorial Board, Encyclopaedia Britannica (India) Ltd. (1997-present). ACLS-SSRC Research fellow, Bengal (1978-79); Ford Foundation Consultant, Bangladesh (1973). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Caste in Colonial India; Myth and Ritual; Sacrifice. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: "The Effectiveness of the Hindu Sacrament (Samskara): Marriage, Divorce, and Caste in Bengali Culture." In Marriage from the Margins. Edited by P.B. Courtright and L. Harlan. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002: The Fruits of Worship: Practical Religion in Rural Bengal. Delhi: Chronicle Books. 1995: “The Effectiveness of the Hindu Sacrament (Samskara): Marriage, Divorce, and Caste in Bengali Culture.” In From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture. Edited by L. Harlan and P. B. Courtright. New York: Oxford University Press. 1991: "Cultures in the Curriculum." Liberal Education 77 (3). 1982: "The Village Mother in Bengal." In Mother Worship: Theme and Variations. Edited by Preston. University of North Carolina Press. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F24 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
44) NUSSBAUM, Martha, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School, Department of Philosophy, Divinity School and the College. Appointed 1995. Tenured. Ph.D. (Classical Philology) Harvard University, 1975; M.A. New York University, 1971; B.A New York University, 1969. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Political Liberalism, Cosmopolitanism, Compassion and Mercy; Sexual Autonomy and Law, Feminist Philosophy. Selected Distinctions: Board of Center on Gender Studies 1999-2002; Board of Human Rights Program 2002, Founder and Coordinator, Center for Comparative Constitutionalism 2002; Honorary Degrees: Wesleyan University (2002); University of Haifa, Israel (2002); University of Turin, Italy (2002); State University of New York at Brockport (2000) L. H. D.; Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (June 2000) Doctor of Laws. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2006): Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values). Belknap Press. Forthcoming (2005): Essay in Poverty And Inequality: Essays by Amartya Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, François Bourguignon, William J. Wilson, Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A. Fineman. Edited by David Grusky, Ravi Kanbur, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, and Amartya Kumar Sen. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 2004: Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2002: "The Modesty of Mrs. Bajaj: India's Problematic Route to Sexual Harrassment Law." In Directions in Sexual Harassment Law, Edited by Catharine MacKinnon and Reva Siegel. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2002: "Sex, Laws, and Inequality: What India Can Teach the United States," In Daedalus (Winter): 95-106.
45) PATURI, Nagaraj, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2005. Ph.D. (Telugu Studies) University of Hyderabad, 1998; M.Phil.(Telugu Studies) University of Hyderabad, 1987; M.A. (Telugu Studies) University of Hyderabad, 1986; M.A. (English Literature) Osmania University, 1992; P.G. Diploma (Applied Linguistics) Osmania University, 1989; B.Sc. (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English, and Telugu) Sri Venkateswara University, 1983. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Telugu language; literary criticism and study of myth; 16th century Telugu poetry; linguistics. South Asian languages: Telugu (5), Sanskrit (5), and Hindi (4). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Telugu language (all levels). Selected recent publications: 2005: with P. Sitaramanjaneyulu. Sri Kalahastisvarasatakamu: (a commentary to a 16th century verse-poem). Hyderabad: Tagore Publishing House. 2004: “It is Traditional to Do the Other Tradition.” In Studies in Indian Folk Culture. Edited by MLK Murthy, et al. Hyderabad: Center for Fold Culture Studies, University of Hyderabad. 2003: “Ellama,” In South Asian Folklore: an Encyclopaedia. Edited by Margaret Mills et al. New York: Routledge. 2003: “Fortune Tellers,” In South Asian Folklore: an Encyclopaedia, Edited by Margaret Mills, et al. New York: Routledge. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F25 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
46) PERRY, John R., Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College. Appointed 1973. Tenured. Ph.D. (Oriental Studies) Cambridge University, 1970; M.A Cambridge University, 1968; B.A. Cambridge University, 1964. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 50%. Research interests: Persian Language; Afsharid and Zand dynasty; Iranian history; India and Iran. South Asian languages: Persian (4), Arabic (3), and Urdu (3). Overseas experience in South Asia: Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture: Indo- American fellowship for research in various regions of India (1989); Research and travel in various regions of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan (1975-84). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Legend and Folktale in Islamic Literature; Classic Persian Literature; Sa'di, the Golestan; Iranian History from the 18th to the 20th Centuries. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 6. Selected Distinctions: Lois Roth Prize for translation from Persian (2003); NCIIIR Short-Term Travel Grant for research in Tajikistan (2006); Title VI/Dept. of Ed. Research Grant to develop a Tajik Persian Reference Grammar (2002-03); Editor, volume on Persian Literature in the South Asian Subcontinent (2001-present). Selected recent publications: 2005: A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar. Handbook of Oriental Studies, Vol. 11. Leiden: Brill. 2004: “Lexical Areas and Semantic Fields of Arabic Loanwords in Persian and Beyond.” In Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic. Edited by Eva A. Csato, Bo Isaksson and Carina Jahani. Curzon: Routledge. 2002: "...And Then There Were None: Adventures in Twelve Indian Libraries." In South Asia Library Notes and Queries.
47) QUTBUDDIN, Tahera, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2002. Untenured. Ph.D. (Arabic Literature) Harvard University, 1999; A.M. (Arabic Literature) Harvard University, 1994; Tamhidi Magister (Arabic Language & Literature) Ain Shams University, 1990; B.A. (Arabic Language & Literature) Ain Shams University, Egypt, 1988. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 50%. Research interests: Arabic language and literature, Sufi Literature, Medieval Islamic Studies, Islamic law, Arabic in India. South Asian languages: Arabic (5), Urdu (5), Gujarati (5), Hindi (5), Persian (3). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Medieval Islamic Ethics; Readings in Sufi Literature; Arabic Wisdom Literature. Selected Distinctions: Editorial board member, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review (1993- 94). Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2006): “Arabic in India as a Sacred Language: A Survey and Classification of its Uses.” In Journal of the American Oriental Society. Forthcoming (2005/06): “Arabic in India.” In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Ed. Kees Versteegh. Vol. 2. Brill. 2005: Al-Mu’ayyad al-Shirazi and Fatimid Da’wa Poetry: A Case of Commitment in Classical Arabic Literature. Vol. 57 in the series Islamic History and Civilization. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 2002: "The Tayyibi Bohra Community: Ideology, Literature and Society,” In Modern Ismaili: History and Thought, Edited by F. Daftary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002: ‘Ali b. Abi Talib,” In Classical Arabic Writers. Edited by M. Cooperson and S. Toorawa, in the series Dictionary of Literary Biography. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F26 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
48) REYNOLDS, Frank, Professor Emeritus, Divinity School and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 1967. Tenured. Ph.D. (History of Religions) University of Chicago, 1971; M.A. University of Chicago, 1963; B.D. Yale University, 1955; B.A. Oberlin College, 1952. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 50%. Research interests: Buddhism; South Asian religions; ethics and cosmology. South Asian language: Pali (3). Overseas experience in South Asia: Research in Thailand and India (2005); Lecturer, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (1992); Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Thailand (1973-74); Research, Thailand (1956-59). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Theravada Buddhism; Mythology; Ethics. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired, 5; Read, 10. Selected Distinctions: Yale alumni award for “Distinction in Theological Education” (2005); Co- Director, NEH Translation Grant (1991-93); NEH Fellowship for Senior Faculty (1978-79); Fulbright-Hays Senior Faculty Fellowship (1973-74). Selected recent publications: 2004: with Jon Schofer. “Cosmology and Ethics.” In The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics. Edited by William Schweiker. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. 2001: “Teaching Buddhism in the Postmodern University: Understanding, Critique, Evaluation,” In Teaching Theology and Religion 4(1): 9-14 2000: with J.A. Carbine. The Life of Buddhism. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997: with W.G. Frisina and D. Tracy, “Reconstructing Philosophy of Religion in an Anti- Theoretical Age - Religion and Practical Reason: New Essays in Comparative Philosophy of Religions.” Journal of Religion. 77(1): 115-121.
49) RITTER, Valerie, Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; Undergraduate Departmental Advisor. Appointed 2002. Untenured. Ph.D. (Asian Languages and Literature) University of Washington, 2001; M.A. (Asian Studies) University of Texas, 1995; B.A. (English) Pitzer College, 1992. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Hindi literature; taxonomies of the heroine; national aesthetics in India. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 4. South Asian language: Hindi (5), Urdu (4), Sanskrit (2). Overseas experience in South Asia: Teaching in the UC Study Abroad program, 2005; Dissertation research, Varanasi and Delhi, 2002; Dissertation Research, Varanasi and Allahabad, 1998; AIIS Advanced Hindi Language Program, 1995. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Poetics and Poetry of South Asia, Gender and Literature in South Asia; Modern South Asian Literature: Literature and the Nation; Indian Literature and Culture: Ancient and Classical; Hindi (all levels). Selected Distinctions: Faculty Fellowship, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago (2005); Wylie Scholarships, University of Washington (1999-2000). Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2005): “The Language of Hariaudh’s Priyapravas: Notes towards an Archaeology of Modern Standard Hindi.” In Journal of the American Oriental Society, 124(3). 2005: “Epiphany in Radha’s Arbor: Nature and the Reform of Bhakti in Hariaudh’s Priyapravas.” In Alternative Krishnas: Regional and Vernacular Variations on a Hindu Deity. Edited by Guy Beck. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2005: Review of Heroes and Heritage: The Protagonist in Indian Literature and Film. Edited by Theo Damsteegt (Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2003). In The Journal of Asian Studies, 64(2). Appendix C: Biographical Information page F27 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
50) RUDOLPH, Lloyd I., Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, the Committee on Southern Asian Studies and the College. Appointed 1964. Tenured. Ph.D. (Political Science) Harvard University, 1956; M.P.A. (Political Science) Harvard University, 1950; B.A. Harvard University, 1948. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 50%. Research interests: Political economy of India; state formation in India; foreign policy; Amar Singh's diary; cultural politics in India. South Asian language: Hindi (3). Overseas experience in South Asia: Live in India three months of each year; Senior Research Scholar, Fulbright Program in India (1991-92); Senior Research Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, India (1987-88), Smithsonian grant, India (1983-84); Guggenheim fellow, India (1975-76); Fulbright faculty research, India (1970-71, 1991-92); AIIS research, India (1966-67, 1979-80, 1987-88, 1995-96); Fulbright scholar, India (1962-63); Ford fellow, India (1956-57) Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 17 Selected recent publications: 2001: with Susanne Rudolph, “The Iconisation of Chandrababu: Sharing Sovereignty in India's Federal Market Economy,” In Economic and Political Weekly 36, no. 18. 2000: "Self as Other; Amar Singh's Diary as Reflexive 'Native' Ethnography." In Tradition, Pluralism and Identity: Essays in Honour of T.N. Madan. Edited by Veena Das and Patricia Oberoi. New Delhi, Sage. 2000: “The Self Constructing Culture: The Ethnography of the Amar Singh Diary.” In Economic and Political Weekly 35, no. 40. 1999: with Susanne Rudolph, Reversing the Gaze: The Amar Singh Diary as Narrative of Imperial India. Colorado: Westview Press and Delhi: Oxford University Press.
51) RUDOLPH, Susanne Hoeber, William Benton Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Department of Political Science and the College. Appointed 1964. Ph.D. Harvard University 1955; M.A. Radcliffe College 1953; B.A Sarah Lawrence College, 1951. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 50%. Research interests: Comparisons between European nation-states and Asian multi-national empires; personal documents in the colonial and post-colonial era; difference; category politics. South Asian language: Hindi (3). Overseas experience in South Asia: NSF faculty research, India (1979-80), AIIS Faculty research, India (1966-67, 1975-76, 1983-84, 1991-92, 1995-96). Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: 19 Selected Distinctions: Ryerson Lecture, University of Chicago, 2002; Member, Association for Asian Studies; President elect, American Political Science Association, 2002-03. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: Hindi edition of Gandhi: the Traditional Roots of Charisma, translated by Chittaranjan Datt. Hyderabad: Orient Longman. 2005: “The Imperialism of Categories: Situated Knowledge in a Globalizing World.” Presidential address, American Political Association. In Perspectives on Politics, 3(1). 2002: with Lloyd Rudolph. Reversing the Gaze: The Amar Singh Diary, A Colonial Subject’s Narrative of Imperial India. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 2000: “Living with the Difference in India: Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context.” In Political Quarterly, July. 1997: Editor. Transnational Religions and Fading States. Framing and Concluding Essays. Co- edited with James Piscatori. Boulder: Westview. 1996. with Lloyd Rudolph. The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India, Reissue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Originally Published in 1967. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F28 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
52) SARTORI, Andrew, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Department of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations. William Rainey Harper Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Appointed 2002. Untenured. Ph.D. (History) University of Chicago, 2003; M.A. University of Melbourne, Australia, 1993; B.A. University of Melbourne, Australia, 1991. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research Interests: History of Bengal; history of South Asia; British Empire; comparative and transnational Asian histories; Hindi nationalist politics. South Asian language: Bengali (4). Overseas experience in South Asia: Dissertation research, India, SSRC IDRF grant, 2000-01. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Asian Identities 1890-1945. Distinctions: Von Holst Prize Lectureship in History, 2003. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2006): "Abul Mansur Ahmad and the Cultural Politics of Bengali Pakistanism." In From the Colonial to the Postcolonial. Edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, and Andrew Sartori. Delhi: Oxford University Press Forthcoming (2006): From the Colonial to the Postcolonial. Edited by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, and Andrew Sartori. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming (2006): “The British Empire and Its Liberal Mission.” Journal of Modern History. 2005: “The Resonance of ‘Culture’: Framing a Problem in Global Concept-History.” In Comparative Studies in Society and History, 47(4). 2003: “The Categorial Logic of a Colonial Nationalism: Swadeshi Bengal, 1904-1908.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa nd the Middle East, 23(1&2).
53) SEELY, Clinton, Associate Professor and Co-chairman, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 1971. Tenured. Ph.D. (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 1976; M.A. (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 1968; B.A. (Biology) Stanford University, 1963. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Current Bengali literature from Bangladesh and West Bengal; Michael Madhusudan Dutt; Bengali language and teaching materials; translation. South Asian language: Bengali (5). Overseas experience in South Asia: Fulbright-Hays faculty research, Bangladesh; AIIS fellow, India (1981-82); Foreign Area fellowship, India, East Pakistan/Bangladesh (1968-70). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Bengali (all levels); Literary and Cultural History of Bengal. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 2, Reader 4. Selected Distinctions: Distinguished Service Award, Cultural Association of Bengal (2004); Dinesh Chandra Sen Research Society’s Award for Excellence in Research in Bengali Literature” (1999); Special Award, 2nd North American Bangla Literature and Culture Convention, Chicago (1997) Selected recent publications: 2004: The Slaying of Meghanada: A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal. New York: Oxford University Press. 2002: Intermediate Bangla. München: LINCOM EUROPA. 2001: “The Mangal-kavya Nature of Bharatchandra’s Annada-mangal.” In Bengal Studies: A Collection of Essays. Edited by R. Datta, Z. Khan and C. Seely. Allied Publishers. 2001: “A Muslim Voice in Modern Bengali Literature: Mir Mosharraf Hosain.” In Understanding Bengal Muslims: Interpretive Essays. Edited by R. Ahmed. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F29 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
54) SELLS, Michael, John Henry Barrows Professor of the History and Literature of Islam, Divinity School. Appointed 2005. Untenured. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1982; M.A. University of Chicago, 1977; A.B. Gonzaga University, 1971. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Islamic poetry; construction of Muslim enemy in the West; Qur’anic language and recitation; Arabic literature. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Islamic Love Poetry. Selected Distinctions: Choice “Academic Book of the Year” Award (2004); Andrew Mellon “New Directions” Fellowship (2003); American Academy of Religion Annual Book Prize(1997). Selected recent publications: 2005: “Religion and Violence in the Post Cold-War World.” Distinguished Lecture Series, West Chester University. 23 March 2005. 2003: The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy. Co-edited with Emran Qureshi. Introduction by Michael Sells and Emran Qureshi. New York: Columbia University Press. 2002: “The Infinity of Desire: Love, Mystical Union, and Ethics in Sufism.” In Crossing Boundaries: Essays on the Ethical Status of Mysticism. Edited by William Barnard and Jeffrey Kripal. New York: Seven Bridges. 2002: “The Wedding of Zein: Islam through the Modern Novel.” In Teaching Islam. Edited by Brannon Wheeler. New York: Oxford University Press.
55) SHWEDER, Richard, William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor on Human Development, Department of Psychology, Committee on Southern Asian Studies and the College. Appointed 1973. Tenured. Ph.D. (Social Relations, Social Anthropology) Harvard University, 1972; B.A. (Anthropology) University of Pennsylvania, 1966. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Moral development; family life; issues of karma and dharma from a developmental and cross-cultural perspective. South Asian language: Oriya (3). Overseas experience in South Asia: NIMH, India (1988); Bhubaneswar, Orissa (1992 and 1998); Bhubaneswar, Orissa (1982-83); Bhubaneswar, Orissa (1968-71). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Cultural Psychology, Anthropology, Human Development; When Cultures Collide: The Moral Challenge in Cultural Migration. Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 3, Reader 1. Selected Distinctions: President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology; Co-chair joint Social Science Research Council Working Group on "Ethnic Customs, Assimilation and American Law"; Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (1999-2000); Visiting Scholar, Hoofer Institution, Stanford University (2005). Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2005): “The Cultural Psychology of Suffering: The Many Meanings of Health In Orissa, India.” In Essays in Honor of Jerome Bruner. Edited by Cheryl Mattingly. 2004: “Moral Realism Without the Ethnocentrism: Is It Just a List of Empty Truisms?” In Universalism in Law: Human Rights and the Rule of Law. Edited by A. Sajo. 2003: Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2002: Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies. Russell Sage Foundation Press. 1996: Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry. Coeditor with R. Jessor and A. Colby, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F30 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
56) STARK, Ulrike, Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2005. Untenured. Ph.D. (Modern Indian Languages) University of Bamberg, 1994; M.A. (French Philology, Hispanic Philology, and Indology) University of Bonn, 1989; I.B. United World College of the Atlantic, 1981. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: 19th century Hindi literature; Muslim writing in Hindi; Hindi textbooks; diffusion of the printed word in colonial India; Hindi vernacular publications. South Asian languages: Hindi (4), Urdu (3), and Sanskrit (3). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Hindi (advanced readings); Hindi Literature; South Asian Cultures. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming: An Empire of Books: The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India, 1858-1895. 2004: “Hindi Publishing in the Heart of an Indo-Persian Cultural Metropolos: Lucknow’s Newal Kishore Press (1858-1895),” In India’s Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth Century, Edited by Stuart Blackburn and Vasudha Dalmia. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 2004: “Towards a New Hindu Woman: Educational ideals and role models in the Vāmāmanrañjan, a nineteenth-century Hindi textbook for girls,” In Aspects of the Female in Indian Culture. Edited by Ulrike Roesler and Jayandra Soni. Swisstal-Odendorf: Indica et Tibetica Verlag.
57) TAUB, Richard, Paul Klapper Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division; Department of Sociology; Chairman of the Committee on Human Development; Co-chairman of Public Policy Studies in the College; Research Associate, Ogburn Stouffer Center. Appointed 1969. Tenured. Ph.D. (Sociology) Harvard University, 1966; M.A. (Sociology) Harvard University, 1962; B.A. (English Literature) University of Michigan, 1959. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Small business and economic development; urban sociology. South Asian Language: Hindi (3). Overseas experience in South Asia: AIIS faculty research, India (1975); Fulbright-Hays faculty research, India (1971); Fulbright-Hays faculty research, India (1970); AIIS research fellow, India (1962-64). Number of dissertation committees in the past five years: Chaired 5, Reader 6. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Public Policy, Urban Field Research, Sociology. Distinctions: Distinguished Visitor, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1998); Resident Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University (1997-1998). Selected recent publications: 2004: Doing Development in Arkansas. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. 2003 with Julius Wilson, et al. Roots of Racial Tension. New York, Knopf. 1987: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in India: The Social Context of Small-Scale Industry. Maryland: Riverdale Press. 1980: with Doris Taub, “Cuttack Entrepreneurs,” In The Transformation of a Sacred Bhubaneswar, India. Edited by Susan Seymour. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1976: “Immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent and the Social Experience of Ethnic Groups in America.” In Immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent in the U.S.A.: Problems and Prospect. Edited by Hekmat Elkhanialy and Ralph Nicholas. Chicago: India League of America. 1969: Bureaucrats Under Stress: Administrators and Administration in an Indian State. Berkeley: University of California Press. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F31 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
58) TIWARI, Bulbul, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Century Scholar lectureship, 2005-06. Untenured. Ph.D. candidate (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago; M.A.(South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 2003; A.B. (English and French Literatures) Harvard University, 1999. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. South Indian languages: Hindi (5) and Sanskrit (4). Research interests: Indian cinema, Mahabharata, Indian theatre and dance. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Melodrama and Melancholy: Hindi Films of the 40s and 50s, Films of Mani Ratnam. Distinctions: Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.
59) TOWNSEND, Robert, Charles E. Merriam Professor, Department of Economics and the College. Appointed 1984. Tenured. Ph.D. (Economics) University of Minnesota, 1975; B.A. Duke University, 1970. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Formal and informal systems for credit and insurance in South Asia. Overseas experience in South Asia: Research for the World Bank, Bangladesh (1991); Research in India (1990, 1991, 1988). Selected Distinctions: Frisch Medal, The Econometric Society, for the paper “Risk and Insurance in Village India,” 1998; Editor of the Journal of Political Economy 1989-1991. Selected recent publications: 2001: “The Credit, Risk Contingency System of an Asian Development Bank,” with Jacob Yaron. Economic Perspectives, 2001. 2001: “Inequality, Risk Sharing, and the boundaries of Collective Organizations,” with Edward Prescott. Journal of Eocnomic Theory, 2001. 1994: with M. Botticini "The Medieval Village Economy: A Study of Pareto Mapping in General Equilibrium Models." Studies in Comparative International Development 29(3): 89-92. 1992: "Understanding the Structure of Village and Regional Economies." In Contract Economics. Edited by L. Werin and H. Wijkander. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1990: Financial Structure and Economic Organization: Key Elements and Patterns in Theory and History. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F32 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
60) WEDEMEYER, Christian, Assistant Professor of the History of Religions, the Divinity School. Appointed 2003. Untenured. Ph.D. (Religion) Columbia University, 1999; M.Phil. (Religion and Buddhist Studies) Columbia University, 1995; M.A. (Religion) Columbia University, 1994; B.A. (Philosophy and Religion) Wesleyan University, 1991. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 75% Research interests: Buddhism in South Asia (especially Tibet). South Asian languages: Tibetan (5), Sanskrit (4), Pali (2), and Hindi (1). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): History of Religions; Philosophy of Religion; Indian Buddhism; Tibetan Buddhism; Ritual in South Asian Buddhism. Selected Distinctions: Awarded distinction on Ph.D. dissertation, 1999; American Oriental Society Graduate Student Award, 1999. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2005): Āryadeva’s Lamp that Integrates the Practices (Caryāmelāpakapradīpa): The Gradual Path of Vajrayāna Buddhism according to the Esoteric Community Noble Tradition (critical Sanskrit and Tibetan texts, translation, and study.) New York: AIBS/Columbia University Press. Forthcoming (2005): Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis: Studies in the Formative Period, 900-1400 (Selected Proceedings of the Xth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford 2003). Edited by Ronald Davidson and Christian Wedemeyer. Leiden: Brill. Forthcoming (2005): “Tantalizing Traces of the Labors of the Lotsāwas: Alternative Translations of Sanskrit Works in the Esoteric Writings of Rje Tsong-kha-pa.” In Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis: Studies in the Formative Period, 900-1400 (Selected Proceedings of the Xth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford 2003). Edited by Ronald Davidson and Christian Wedemeyer. Leiden: Brill. 2003: “Bon.” In Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Edited by Robert E. Buswell. New York: Macmillan.
61) WENTWORTH, Blake, Lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. 2005-06. Untenured. Ph.D. University of Chicago, expected 2006; M.A. University of Chicago, 1998; B.A. Dartmouth College, 1995. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Hinduism South Asian languages: Sanskrit (4) and Tamil (4). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Sanskrit (First year) Selected Distinctions: Marty Dissertation Fellow, Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago, 2004-05. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2005): “Awakened Days, Chennai Dreams.” In Chennai, not Madras. Edited by R. Venkatachalapathy. Mumbai: Marg Publications. 2001: Review of Grow Long, Blessed Night by Martha Ann Selby. Chicago South Asia Newsletter, 25(2). 2000: Review of An Agrarian History of South Asia by David Ludden. Chicago South Asia Newsletter, 24(2). Appendix C: Biographical Information page F33 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
62) WOODS, John E., Professor, Departments of History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Appointed 1977. Tenured. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1974; M.A. Princeton University, 1965; B.A. University of Texas, 1960. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Mongols and Islam; Age of Timur; Islamic Social History; Kingship and Society. South Asian language: Persian (4). Distinctions: American Research Institute in Turkey research fellowship (1987-88); Senior Research Scholar, International Research and Exchanges Board (1979); Tehran University Visiting Fellow (1964-69); Proctor Fellow, Princeton University (1964-65); Selected recent publications: 1999: The Aqquyunlu: Clan, Confederation, Empire. Revised and Expanded Edition. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 1993: Fadlullah Khunji-Isfahani's Tarikh-i Alam-ara-yi Amini, Persian text edited by John E. Woods with an abridged English translation by Vladimir Minorsky, revised and augmented by John E. Woods. London: Royal Asiatic Society. 1990: "Timur's Genealogy," In Intellectual Studies on Islam, Essays Written in Honor of Martin B. Dickson, Edited by Michel M. Mazzaoui and Vera B. Moreen. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City. 1990: The Timurid Dynasty, Papers on Inner Asia No. 14, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1987: "The Rise of Timurid Historiography." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 48. 1984: "Turco-Iranica II: Notes on a Timurid Decree of 1396." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 43.
63) ZEGHAL, Malika, Associate Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, Divinity School. Appointed 2005. Untenured. Ph.D. (Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies) Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1994; M.A. (Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies) Intitut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1991; B.A. (Economics and Comparative Literature) Sorbonne, University of Paris I and Paris IV, 1989. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25%. Research interests: Religion through the lens of Islam and power; institutionalization of Islam in the Muslim world, Muslim diasporas. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Modern Islam Selected Distinctions: Lavoisier Post-Doctoral Fellowship, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1994); Michel Seurat Award, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (1992); French Ministry of Education Doctoral Fellowship (1991-1994). Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2005): New Muslim Intellectuals. Edited with Farhad Khosrokhavar. Paris: Editions Balland. Forthcoming (2005): “Al-Azhar, Tradition and Modernity: The Myths Revisited.” In Cairo Cosmopolitan: World Capital of Myths and Movements. Edited by Paul Amar and Diane Singerman. 2004: Religious Authorities in Islam. Edited with Marc Gaborieau. Special issue of the French journal Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 49ène année, no 125. Introduction by Marc Gaborieau and Malika Zeghal. 2003: “Le gouvernement de la cite. Un Islam sous tension.” In Islam et démocratie, Pouvoirs, 104. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F34 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
64) ZIDE, Norman, Professor Emeritus, Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Linguistics. Tenured. Ph.D. (South Asia Studies) University of Pennsylvania, 1960; M.A. Columbia University, 1948; B.A. (Psychology) New York University, 1947. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Hindi and Urdu poetry and linguistics; Western Austroasiatic (Munda) family of tribal languages; Mundari folksongs. South Asian Language: Hindi (5), Korku, Munda. Overseas experience in South Asia: Indo-US Subcommission Grant, AIIS Senior Fellowship (research in India) 1978-79; Fulbright-Hays; Central Institute of India Studies, Mysore, Grant 1971-72. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): The Munda verb; Hindi and Urdu Poetry Selected recent publications: 1987: with H.M. Hoenigswald and G. Cardona, Festschrift for Henry Hoenigswald: On the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Tubingen. 1979: Studies of the Munda Numerals. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages. 1976: with Ved Prakash Vatuk, An Advanced Reader in Modern Hindi Poetry. Delhi : Alankar Prakashan. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F35 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
Professional Staff Vitae
65) BLEDSOE, Bronwen, Assistant to the Bibliographer for the Southern Asia Department, Joseph Regenstein Library. Appointed 1997. Ph.D. (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 2004; B.A University of Washington (Anthropology and South Asian Studies), 1984. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: History of Nepal South Asian languages: Bengali (2), Nepali (4), Sanskrit (4), Newari (2), and Hindi (2). Overseas experience in South Asia: Undergraduate programs in Nepal (1980-82); Ph.D. research in Nepal (1990-94). Selected recent publications: 2000: "An Advertised Secret," In Tantra in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
66) DENT, Charles, Assistant Cataloger, Joseph Regenstein Library. Appointed 1990. Ph.D. (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 1987; M.A. George Washington University, 1978; B.A. University of Virginia, 1969 Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 75%. Research interests: Literature South Asian languages: Hindi (3), Urdu (3), Sanskrit (2), and Bengali (2). Overseas experience in South Asia: Committee on Southern Asia Studies Grant, India (1984-87) Selected recent publications: 1994: Broken Mirror (Translation of a Hindi Novel by Krishna Baldev Vaid). India: Penguin Books. 1988: Irony in Hindi Short Stories: Translation and Structural Analysis.
67) JONES, Jacqueline, Program Assistant, South Asian Civilizations in India, Autumn 2005. Untenured. Ph.D. candidate (Ethnomusicology) University of Chicago; M.M. (Composition) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2000; B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, 1997. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: Popular Indian cinema and musicals; ethnomusicology. South Asian language: Hindi (3). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Indian Literature, Indian History, Indian Archaeology. Selected Distinctions: Kaschens Fund Stipend, University of Chicago 2005-2006; Fulbright Fellowship, Institute of International Education, for dissertation research in India 2004-2005. Selected recent publications: 2005: “The Aesthetics of Gandhi’s Vision: Idioms of Utopia in Practice.” NewQuest: a quarterly journal of participative inquiry, 159. 2004: “Exploring Schizophonia: a Response to Kelsey Cowger.” Voice Exchange: the student journal of the University of Chicago Music Department, Spring 2004. 2003: “The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Hindi Film.” Paper delivered at The Society for Ethnomusicology Conference. Miami, October 2003. 2003: “Performing Utopian Selves in Bollywood Musicals.” Paper delivered at the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, Northwestern University, February 28, 2003. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F36 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
68) KHAFIPOUR, Hani, Teaching Assistant, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. Appointed 2005. Untenured. Ph.D. candidate (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago; B.A. (History and Philosophy) University of Hawai’i, Hilo, 2004. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25% Research interests: History of Safavid dynasty; the advent of Shi’ism in Iran. South Asian language: (5). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Persian (Teaching Assistant) Selected Distinctions: Member of Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society).
69) KOVACS, Hajnalka, Teaching Assistant, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2005-06. Ph.D. candidate (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago; M.A. (Indian Studies) Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 2003; M.A. (Urdu Literature) Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, 2002. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. Research interests: The literary and the religious culture of 17th and 18th-century Northern India; classical Persian poetry; Indo-Persian literature; classical Urdu ghazal; Sufism. South Asian languages: Urdu (4), Hindi (4), and Persian (3). Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Hindi (Teaching Assistant) Selected Distinctions: The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR, India) Fellowship 2000- 2002; The Hungarian Fellowship Committies (MOB) of the Ministry of Education fellowship 2000-2002. Selected recent publications: Forthcoming (2005): “Hangeri Men Rashtriya Hindi Pariksha.” In Proceedings of the Second Conference of East European Hindi Scholars, Csikszereda/Miercuria Ciuc, Romania, 28-30 June 2004. Edited by Imre Bangha. 2005: “Részlet Dzselál ed-dín Rúmi Mesznevijéből.” In Szörényi László-emlékkönyv (Essays in Honour of Dr. Laszlo Szorenyi). Edited by Ferenc Csirkés, Hajnalka Kovács, and Balász Sudár. March 2005. 2005: “Urdú irodalom a 18. századi Delhiben.” [“Urdu literature in eighteenth-century Delhi”]. Paper delivered at the Conference of Young Orientalists, Szeged, April 2004. In Függőkert Orientalisztikai tanulmányok. Edited by F. P. Csirkés, Gy. Csorba, B. Sudár, and Z. Takács. Budapest: Argumentum.
70) NOONAN, Brooke, Manager of Fellowships and Traveling Scholar Programs, Office of Graduate Affairs. Appointed 2000. B.A., DePaul University, 1995. Responsibilities: University liaison for government fellowships (Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS), National Science Foundation and Jacob K. Javits): prepares government reports and is responsible for all aspects of fellowship administration; reviews financial terms and conditions of each award and interprets fellowship and funding agencies guidelines; sets up fellowship accounts, allocates budgets, and tracks accounts; interacts with Area Centers to ensure federal guidelines are adhered to; notifies significant administrative units of pertinent fellowship matters; provides fellowship advice and information to graduate students; plans, presents, and assists with grantsmanship workshops for graduate students, assists with planning and administration of the ESL Summer Language Institute, coordinates the CIC Traveling Scholar and Exchange Scholar programs; plans and executes the annual Graduate Student Orientation. Appendix C: Biographical Information page F37 University of Chicago South Asia NRC and FLAS proposal, 2006-2010
71) PAZUCHA, Katarzyna, Teaching Assistant, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2005. Untenured. Ph.D. candidate (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago; M.A. (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago, 2005; M.A. (Indian Philology) Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 2002. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. South Asian languages: Sanskrit (4), Tamil (2), and Hindi (1). Research interests: Sanskrit language and literature. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Sanskrit teaching assistant.
72) POULOS, Steven, Director, South Asia Language Resource Center. Appointed 2003. Ph.D. (Hindi and Urdu literature, 19th and 20th century social and intellectual history of South Asia) University of Chicago, 1975; M.A. (Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Linguistics) University of Chicago, 1968; B.A. (History, Modern Languages) The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1962. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 100%. South Asian languages: Hindi (3), Urdu (2), and Sanskrit (1). Research interests: Partition of India and Pakistan as a theme in Hindi and Urdu short fiction; contemporary women short fiction writers. Selected recent publications: 1993: “Spring Came, or Death Came.” Translation of work by Qurratulain Hyder. In Journal of South Asian Literature, 26(1-2) 1988: “Encircling Arms.” Translation of work by Mannu Bhandari. In Indian Literature.
73) SADR, Amin Azad, Teaching Assistant, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Appointed 2005. Untenured. Ph.D. candidate (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) University of Chicago; M.A. (Persian) University of Tehran, 2004; B.A. (English) University of Maryland, 2001. Percentage of time dedicated to South Asian studies: 25% South Asian language: Persian (5). Research interests: Iranian folklore, agriculture in Iran. Courses taught or proposed (partial listing): Persian teaching assistant.