Student Directory
Anthropology
Sarah Eleazar Sadiq
Graduate student
Interests: Political ecology, water, toxicity, environmental inequalities, and labor
Sardar Hussain
PhD student
Interests: City, Space and Place, Heritage, Gentrification, Everyday Life, the Ordinary
Art History
Asian Studies
Justin Ben-Hain
(on leave)
PhD student
Interests: Vallabhite Vartas, Old Rajasthani Literature, Community formation, circulation of texts and ideas
Cicely Bonnin
PhD student
Education: BSc, BEd, MA (Linguistics), The University of Queensland
Interests: Sanskrit language and literature; Old Indic; Middle Indic; Hindi; Sense perception in linguistics, literature and religion; Color; Language change; Translation; Classical South Asian poetics and epistemology
Katharine Chandler
MA student
Education: BA in Philosophy, Religious Studies, History, and Great Books, East Carolina University
Interests: Ethnography, Women and Gender Studies in South Asia, Goddess Worship
Michael Fiden
PhD student
Education: MA in Religious Studies, University of South Florida.
Interests: Early South-Indian devotional traditions; the development of śrauta ritual in the early Vedic period; sociopolitical and religious contexts and development during the second urbanization; and formative Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism.
Nina Gat
PhD candidate
Interests: Literatures of India with a special interest in the beginnings of modern Hindi literature; Classical Indian aesthetics; & Indian modernity as reflected in post-independence Hindi literature
Charlotte Giles
PhD candidate
Interests: Indo-Islamic culture and history, Urdu literature, labor, home-based production and the textile industry
Katie Lazarowicz
PhD candidate
Interests: Indian Folk art (Madhubani Painting, Mithila Art), Material Culture & Visual Studies, Development & Labor, Bihar, Hindi, Economics & Economic History 19th Century - present, Contemporary Indian Art, Religious and Spiritual Traditions of India, Jesuits in India
Benjamin Simington
MA student
Education: B.A., History, Carthage College
Interests: Islam in South Asia, Sufi texts, Urdu, Anti-colonialism, Critical Whiteness Studies
David St. John
PhD student
Education: MA in Religious Studies, Florida International University
Interests: Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Quakerism, the history of the formation of ethics, lay ethics, mendicant-lay interactions, ownership principles
John Taylor
PhD student
Interests: Classical Sanskrit literature, esp. the Mahabharata, ritual theory, gender & body theory, Indo-European linguistics
Business and Marketing
Communication Studies
Economics
Sangita Vyas
Graduate student
sangita.vyas@utexas.edu |
BRB 3.134G
Education: MPA, Princeton University
Interests: Demographic methods; population projections; applied microeconomics; public, health, and development economics
Ethnomusicology
Aruna Kharod
MA/PhD student
Education: BA, Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Sitar
Caroline Rohm
Graduate student
Education: DMA, Flute Performance, University of Maryland
Interests: Flute, North India, networks of transnational music communities
History
Kirtan Patel
Graduate student
Education: MA in History, Utah State University
Interests: British Empire, Colonial India, Hindu Religious History, Monastic Leadership and Culture, Migration History, History of Emotions, Religious Community Formation
Middle Eastern Studies
Bryan Sitzes
Graduate student
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Environmental histories of the Persianate world
Public Affairs
Gaurav Gaur
Graduate student
Education: Bachelors of Engineering, University of Delhi, India
Interests: E-governance, data driven public service delivery mechanisms, urban transportation
Religious Studies
Harsha Gautam
Graduate student
Education: MA and MPhil in Ancient History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Interests: Early Buddhism in South Asia; comparative study of the Vinaya traditions; socio-economic history of India
Evan LeBarre
Graduate student
Interests: Religions in History, Sanskrit, Tamil, Vedic studies, asceticism, philosophy, Native American studies
Blake Pye
Graduate student
Education: MA, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Sufism and sainthood, the intersection of Sufism and politics, and knowledge hierarchies in premodern Islamic societies
Sociology
Upasana Garnaik
Graduate student
Education: LL.M., Duke University School of Law
Interests: Gender, Sexuality, Family Law, Social Movement and Property Rights
Vrinda Marwah
PhD student
Education: MA, London School of Economics and Political Science
Interests: Reproductive health and technologies, Gender, Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Qualitative Methodology, Contemporary India, Social Movements, Law and Policy, State
Beth Prosnitz
PhD student
Education: MA, The New School
Interests: Political Sociology, Social Movements, Citizenship, Gender
Jackson Walker
PhD student
Education: MA, Asian Culture and Languages, University of Texas at Austin
