Alumni and Student Updates
Four of our alumni received tenure during 2010: Chaise LaDousa at Hamilton College,
Clinton NY; Lisa Knight at Furman
University, Greenville, SC; Yamuna
Sangarasivam at Nazareth, and Kalyani
Menon at DePaul University, Chicago IL.
Several of our students successfully defended their
dissertations in the past year: Vivek
Srinivasan (Social Science), Mary
Lou Fernandes (Social Science), Bandita
Sijapati (Social Science), Asha
Sundaram (Economics). Vivek has been named the Program manager for the
Liberation Technology Program at Stanford University. Since defending, Mary Lou
has taught Public Policy at the American University in Kosovo, and she now
contributes opinion pieces on Indian policy issues at Huffington Post, consults
with the World Bank and runs a high-end consultancy matching service called
worldXperts. Asha is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of South
Africa. She is also a co-author of a chapter in a new volume on Poverty in
India—“Do Lagging Regions Benefit from Trade?” (with Pravin Krishna and
Devashish Mitra). The Poor Half Billion in South Asia: What is Holding Back
Lagging Regions, E. Ghani (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2010.
Two of our Ph.D. students received grants to conduct their
dissertation research. Faris Khan
(Anthropology) received the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant
for his project, “Exploring Queer Disjunctures: Sexual Subjects and Activist
Groups in Kolkata”. He is currently in Pakistan doing research. Madhura Lohokare, PhD candidate in the
Anthropology Department, has received the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation
Fieldwork Grant. Lohokare's project will examine the ways in which the urban
poor use public spaces in Pune, Maharashtra and the extent to which their use
of space can lead to political mobilization.
John Giammatteo,
a dual anthropology and magazine journalism major in SU’s College of Arts and
Sciences and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, respectively,
and a South Asian Studies Minor, has received a Marshall Scholarship, the first
in the history of Syracuse University. He plans to plans to pursue a master’s
degrees in global migration at the City University of London, and in Southeast
Asia studies at the University of London’s School for Oriental and African
Studies. When he returns to the United States, he plans to pursue a Ph.D. in
anthropology with a focus on forced migration.