People - Faculty

Please Note: Faculty and TAs do not hold office hours during Finals Week and Quarter Breaks.

Name

Field of Interest

Jameel Ahmad

Teaching Professor

GWN M231

Ghazal History Poetics and Translation, Hindi, Language Pedagogy, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, South Asian, Translation and Interpretation, Urdu

Uma Attota

Lecturer

uattota@uw.edu

Dance, Poetry and Poetics, South Asian, Telugu

Amruta M. Chandekar

Assistant Teaching Professor

amrutc@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

SMI 022

Hindi, Linguistics, Literature, Narrative Theory, Pragmatics, Sanskrit, Semantics, South Asian, Syntax, Textual Studies, Urdu

Binata Chowdhuri

Lecturer

binatac@uw.edu

SMI 016

Bengali (Bangla), Literature, Poetry and Poetics, South Asian, Visual Arts

Jennifer Dubrow

Associate Professor

jdubrow@uw.edu / 206-543-4146

GWN M212

19th Century, 20th Century, Hindi, Modernism, Postcolonial, Print culture in South Asia, South Asian, Textual Studies, Urdu

David Fowler

Lecturer

dsfowler@uw.edu

SMI 016

Sanskrit, South Asian

Joseph A. Marino, III

Cris & Melissa Upton Cyders Professor of Buddhist Studies
Assistant Professor

jamarino@uw.edu / 206-897-1584

GWN M229

Buddhist Studies, Gandhāran Buddhist Literature, Philology, Religion, Sanskrit, South Asian, Translation and Interpretation

Heidi Pauwels

Professor
South Asian Program Coordinator

hpauwels@uw.edu / 206-543-4235

GWN 233

Classical and modern Hindi language and literature, Hindi, Hinduism, Literature and Other Arts, Religion, Sanskrit, Sanskrit language and literature, South Asian

Emeriti Faculty

Collett Cox

Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit

collett@uw.edu

Buddhist Studies, Indian Buddhism, Indian philosophy, Pali and the Prakrits, Philosophy, Religion, Sanskrit, South Asian

Prem Pahlajrai

Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus of Hindi

prem@uw.edu

Advaita Vedanta, Hindi, Language Pedagogy, Philosophy, Sanskrit, South Asian

Richard G. Salomon

William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit

rsalomon@uw.edu

ancient Indian history, Buddhist Studies, Epigraphy, Gandharan studies, History, Pali and the Prakrits, Sanskrit, South Asian

Michael C. Shapiro

Professor Emeritus of Hindi

hindimcs@uw.edu

Hindi, Historical Linguistics, Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics, Linguistics, Literature, South Asian

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Adjuncts & Affiliates
Name	Title	Email/Phone
Novetzke, Christian	Adjunct; Professor in the Jackson School's South Asia, Comparative Religion, and International Studies Programs	novetzke@uw.edu 206-543-6142