People

Kalaiyarasan A

Assistant Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies

kalaijnu@brown.edu

Osama Ahmad

PhD Candidate in History, Summer Fellow 2023

Faiz Ahmed

Joukowsky Family Distinguished Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History

faiz_ahmed@brown.edu

Yamini Aiyar

Former President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Visiting Professor of the Practice at the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia

yaiyar@gmail.com

Muntazir Ali

PhD Candidate in Religious Studies, Summer Fellow 2023

Tarun Arora

Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Placement and Internships, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy

Ashish Avikunthak

Professor of Film & Media, University of Rhode Island

avikunthak@uri.edu

Tiraana Bains

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor of History

tiraana_bains@brown.edu

Rhitama Basak

PhD Candidate in Islam, Society and Culture

rhitama_basak@brown.edu

Shahzad Bashir

Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities Professor of History

shahzad_bashir@brown.edu

Kaushik Basu

Chief Economist, World Bank , OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (fall 2012)

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Fall 2016)

Shannon Constantine

PhD Student in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

roshny_constantine@brown.edu

William Dalrymple

Writer and Historian, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (spring 2015)

Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a co‑founder and co‑director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J‑PAL), OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Fall 2024)

Barkha Dutt

Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow (Fall 2012), Group Editor, NDTV

Andrew Foster

Professor of Economics, Director of the Population Studies and Training Center

andrew_foster@brown.edu

Lina Fruzzetti

Professor of Anthropology

lina_fruzzetti@brown.edu

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow (Spring 2020), Former IAS Officer and Diplomat

Leela Gandhi

Director, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, John Hawkes Professor of the Humanities and English

leela_gandhi@brown.edu

Rajmohan Gandhi

Historian & Biographer

rgandhi@illinois.edu, rajmohan.gandhi@gmail.com

Avishek Ganguly

Associate Professor, Literary Arts and Studies, RISD

aganguly@risd.edu

Finnian Gerety

Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies, South Asian Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

finn.mooregerety@ames.ox.ac.uk

Amitav Ghosh

Writer, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Spring 2018)

Ramachandra Guha

Historian and Writer, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (fall 2013)

Shekhar Gupta

Editor in Chief, Founder, The Print, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Fall 2022)

Menaka Guruswamy

Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow (Spring 2020), BR Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer

Faraz Haider

PhD Candidate in History

Patrick Heller

Director, Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs

patrick_heller@brown.edu

Niraja Jayal

Professor and Avantha Chair at the King’s India Institute, King’s College London,, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Fall 2025)

Ashish Jha

Dean of the School of Public Health, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

deanofpublichealth@brown.edu

Leja Joe Mathew

leja_joe_mathew@brown.edu

Bhanu Joshi

Research Affiliate, Saxena Center, PhD in Political Science, Brown University, 2025

bhanu_joshi@brown.edu

Lucas Joshi

lucas_joshi@brown.edu

Rami Kantor

Associate Professor of Medicine, YRG Care Intern Supervisor

rami_kantor@brown.edu

Mizan Khan

Technical Lead of the LDC Universities’ Consortium on Climate Change (LUCCC)

mizanrkhan54@gmail.com

Ramu Kharel

Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine, Nepal Cluster Coordinator, Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia

ramu_kharel@brown.edu

Natalia Kharkovskaia

Events & Communications Coordinator

natalia_kharkovskaia@brown.edu

Salman Khurshid

Former Minister of External Affairs, Government of India, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (spring 2016)

Atul Kohli

Political scientist, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Spring 2024)

Ashok Koul

Senior Lecturer in Language Studies

ashok_koul@brown.edu

TM Krishna

Indian Carnatic vocalist, activist, and writer, Artist in Residence

Ravish Kumar

Journalist, Author and Media Personality, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (2023)

Nayanjot Lahiri

Professor of History, Ashoka University, New Delhi, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Spring 2017)

William Lodge

PhD Candidate, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Health Equity Research

william_lodge@brown.edu

Aditya Lodha

aditya_lodha@brown.edu

Karan Mahajan

Assistant Professor of Literary Arts

karan_mahajan@brown.edu

Aparajita Majumdar

Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society

aparajita_majumdar@brown.edu

Uday Mehta

Professor of Political Science, City University of New York, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Spring 2021)

Bryce Millett Steinberg

Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs

Matthew Mimiaga

Director for the Institute for Community Health Promotion, Professor of Epidemiology, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences

matthew_mimiaga@brown.edu

Radhika Moral

PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology Saxena Fellow: Spring 2022; Winter 2024

radhika_moral@brown.edu

Mira Nair

Film Director and Producer, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Fall 2021)

Ashis Nandy

Political Pshychologist, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (spring 2014)

Michael Neubauer

PhD Candidate in Economics, Summer Fellow 2023

Pawan Pandey

Program Manager, Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia

pawan_pandey@brown.edu

Anand Patwardhan

Indian documentary filmmaker and social activist, Artist in Residence

Sai Pitre

Predoctoral Trainee in Economics

sai_pitre@brown.edu

Leela Prasad

St. Purandar Das Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies

leela_prasad@brown.edu

Aditi Priya

PhD Candidate in Sociology

aditi_priya@brown.edu

Swapnil Rai

Visiting Fellow

swapnil_rai@brown.edu

Raghuram Rajan

Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (fall 2019)

Ramesh Ramanathan

Co-Founder of Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy

Swati Ramanathan

Co-Founder of Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, Chairperson of Jana Urban Space Foundation

Jairam Ramesh

Economist and Politician, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (fall 2014)

Nirupama Rao

Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs

Aruna Roy

Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow (Spring 2019), Indian Activist

Poulami Roychowdhury

Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs

poulami_roychowdhury@brown.edu

Salman Rushdie

Author, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Fall 2021)

Malabika Sarker

Professor of the Practice of Behavioral and Social Sciences

malabika_sarker@brown.edu

Arijit Sen

Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow (Spring 2019), Journalist

Ali Sethi

Pakistani singer, songwriter, and author , Artist in Residence

Holly Shaffer

Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture

holly_shaffer@brown.edu

Kamila Shamsie

Author, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (2022)

Sonakshi Sharma

Graduate Student

sonakshi_sharma@brown.edu

Chandni Shyam

chandni_shyam@brown.edu

Bhrigupati Singh

Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University

bhrigupati_singh@brown.edu

Prerna Singh

Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

prerna_singh@brown.edu

Shreya Singh

shreya_singh@brown.edu

Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Former Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Government of India, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (fall 2015)

Esha Sraboni

Sociologist

esha_sraboni@brown.edu

Connor Staggs

PhD Canidate in Political Science

connor_staggs@brown.edu

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Distinguished Professor and Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at UCLA, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Spring 2019)

Arvind Subramanian

Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

arvindsubramanian2011@gmail.com

Siddharth Swaminathan

Visiting Research Associate

siddswaminathan983@gmail.com

Ria Talathi

ria_talathi@brown.edu

Ashley Tellis

Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (spring 2013)

Siddharth Varadarajan

Journalist, Founding Editor, The Wire, OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer (Spring 2022)

Ashutosh Varshney

Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs

ashutosh_varshney@brown.edu

Falaks Vasa

MFA Candidate in Literary Arts, Cross-Disciplinary Writing

Meena Venkataramanan

Gilles Verniers

Karl Loewenstein Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Amherst College

gverniers@amherst.edu

Kenneth Wong

Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Urban Studies, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Professor of Political Science

kenneth_wong@brown.edu

Yogendra Yadav

Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow (Spring 2013), Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

Vazira Zamindar

Associate Professor of History

vfyz@brown.edu