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Past Directors of SAI

South Asia Institute

  • Sharmila Rudrappa (Director, South Asia Institute, UT-Austin, 2020-2024)
  • Donald R. Davis, Jr. (Director, South Asia Institute, UT-Austin, 2017- 2019)
  • Kamran Ali (Director, South Asia Institute, UT -Austin, 2010-2017 (on leave 2010-2011))
  • Kathryn Hansen (Interim Director, South Asia Institute, UT-Austin, 2010-2011)
  • Itty Abraham (Director South Asia Institute, UT-Austin, 2007-2010)
  • James Brow (Director South Asia Institute, UT-Austin, 2004-2007)
  • Patrick Olivelle (Interim Director, South Asia Institute, UT-Austin, 2003-2004)

Center for Asian Studies

The Center for Asian Studies expanded its mission to develop programs focused on the contemporary period of South Asia and to strengthen linkages with colleges and schools across the University. The Title VI grant application submitted under Kathryn Hansen in Fall 2003 received the second highest award given to a single university for a National Resource Center at the time. It is this grant that paved the way for the emergence of the South Asia Institute in its current form.

  • Kathryn Hansen (Director, Center for Asian Studies, UT-Austin, 2000-2004)