Alumni Updates 2015
Several
alumni have had publications released in the past year:
Chase LaDousa’s (Anthropology, PhD ’00) Hindi is Our Ground, English is Our Sky:
Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India (Berghahn
Books);
Haripriya Narasimhan’s (Anthropology, PhD
’06) Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a
Middle-Class Caste, with Chris
Fuller (University of Chicago Press);
Vivek Srinivasan’s (Social Science, PhD
‘10) Delivering Public
Services Effectively: Tamil Nadu & Beyond (Oxford University Press).
In other news, William
Jackson (History, PhD ’13) is serving as
President of the Institute of South Asian Religious History and is currently
planning their annual conference that will take place in April.
Faris Khan (Anthropology, PhD. ’14) had a one year visiting
appointment at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, NY.
Karen McNamara (Anthropology, PhD. ’14) is finishing up a one year
appointment at Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, VA and has received a two
year postdoctoral fellowship at the National
University of Singapore (NUS). It is a Joint Appointment
with the Science, Technology & Society Cluster at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) and Tembusu College.