Faculty
| Name | Research interests | Campus Address & Telephone Ext. | ||
| Vijay Agnew Social Science |
Women's Studies , Race and Racism , Feminist theory with particular emphasis on racism, History of Asian, African, and Caribbean women in Canada; South Asian women;, Violence against immigrant women, and NGOs of immigrant women | vagnew@yorku.ca | S717 Ross, 30153 | |
Mahmudul Anam Economics |
manam@econ.yorku.ca | 1116 Vari Hall, 33697 | ||
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Preetmohinder Singh Aulakh Schulich School of Business |
Economic Liberalization in India; Internationalization of Indian Firms; Indian Business Groups and State-Owned Enterprises; Technology Transfers and Economic Development. | paulakh@schulich.yorku.ca | N305C Seymour Schulich Building, 77941 |
 | Himani Bannerji Sociology |
Historical sociology and social history, with a focus on India; feminism and women’s movement; communalism, riots and war; class, class and ethnic identities; social and political thought of Rabindranath Tagore | himanib@yorku.ca | 2104 Vari Hall, 77993 |
 | Malcolm Blincow Anthropology |
Agrarian socioeconomic formations in rural North Africa and the Middle East; contemporary class formation in rural north west Morocco in the context of large-scale land reform and irrigation development programmes; comparative historical and ecological study of "recycling activities" in urban centres; the examination of embedded structures of organized political violence in the making of "modernity"; the anthropology of neo-imperialism | blincow@yorku.ca | 2050 Vari Hall, 40139 |
 | Raju Das Geography | Poverty and uneven development; Technology, nature, population and production relations; agrarian transition; globalization of 'new agriculture and labour; developmental policies of the state, and state-society relations; neoliberalism; radical social movements; social capital; Marxist political economy; theory of class, the state, and capitalism under new imperialism; space-society relations; nature of radical theorizing; India | rajudas@yorku.ca | S404 Ross, 22450 |
 | Tania Dasgupta Equity Studies and Sociology |
Twice migrated South Asian migrants to Canada,, political economy of South Asian women (gender, race and class), South Asian diaspora | tdasgu@yorku.ca | 310 Atkinson College, 66345 |
| Enakshi Dua Women's Studies | edua@yorku.ca | 607 York Research Tower, 20143 | ||
 | Shubhra Gururani Anthropology | Critical political ecologies, space and place, postcolonial development, and histories of science and nature in the Indian Himalayas; politics of (sub)urbanization in India outside of New Delhi | gururani@yorku.ca | 2038 Vari Hall, 33716 |
| Eve Haque Languages, Literatures and Linguistics |
ehaque@yorku.ca | S534 Ross, 20764 | ||
 | Zulfikar Hirji Anthropology |
Swahili-speaking Muslim communities on the East African Coast; | zhirji@yorku.ca | 2040 Vari Hall, 77783 |
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Ali Kazimi Film Studies |
Race, migration, indigeneneity, history and memory with a particular interest in South Asia and Canada | 234 CFT, 44556 | |
 | Sailaja Krishnamurti Humanities |
Representations of migration; race, gender, sexuality; diaspora and transnationalism in literature and theory; visual culture and comics; South Asian history, politics, religions. |
skrishna@yorku.ca | 109B Vanier College, 77413 |
 | Arun Mukherjee English | amukherj@yorku.ca | 342 Stong College, 30442 | |
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Haideh Moghissi Equity Studies and Women's Studies |
Middle East Politics and Culture; Islam and Gender with focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan; Human Rights; immigration and diaspora cultures; race relations and policies. | moghissi@yorku.ca | 330 Atkinson College, 20842 |
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Radhika Mongia Sociology |
Feminist, Marxist and Postcolonial Theory; Political and Historical Sociology; Study of "Transnational" and "Global" Processes | rmongia@yorku.ca | 2080 Vari Hall, 66406 |
 | Ananya Mukherjee Reed Political Science | ananya@yorku.ca | 630 York Research Tower, 20266 | |
 | Michael Nijhawan Sociology | Cultural Sociology; Social Theory; Sociology and Anthropology of Violence; Transnational Religion and Diaspora; Popular Culture and Performance; South Asia, Germany | nijhawan@yorku.ca | 2146 Vari Hall, 77994 |
 | Shobna Nijhawan Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics |
The Hindi public sphere, women's literature, literature on nationalism, medical literature (all in Hindi and Urdu) |
shobna@yorku.ca |
S570 Ross, 88725 |
Nalini Persram Social Science |
Postcolonial Theory; Western Social & Political Thought; Social, Political & Cultural Thought; Feminism; Modernity, Occidentalism & the Caribbean & Latin America; Guyana; Eco-subjectivity | persramn@yorku.ca | 744 York Research Tower, 46012 | |
 | Fahim Quadir Social Science, International Development Studies |
Aid effectiveness, good governance, civil society, rising donors, micro-finance, and trans-border social movements for peace, human security, and human development | fquadir@yorku.ca | 319 Founders, 66937 |
| Indhu Rajagopal Social Science |
Theoretical analysis in political philosophy, political economy, caste | rajagopa@yorku.ca | 229 Founders, 77809 | |
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Shyam Ranganathan Philosophy |
South Asian philosophy (especially South Asian Moral Philosophy), Yoga (Meditation, especially Patanjali), Ethical Theory (Normative theory and Metaethics), Philosophy of Language, Translation Theory, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion | shyamr@yorku.ca | S446 Ross Building, 77543 |
Darryl Reed Business and Society |
dreed@yorku.ca | S754 Ross, 77817 | ||
 | Janet Rubinoff History and Humanities | janetr@yorku.ca | 318 Founders, 20415 | |
| Trichy Sankaran Music | tsank@yorku.ca | 347 Accolade East, 77135 | ||
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Frank Scherer Communication Studies |
Orientalism, Self-Orientalization and Representation in early Indian Cinema | fscherer@yorku.ca | 3034, Technology Enhanced Learning Building, no extension available |
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Marta Simidchieva Humanities |
Dari and Indo-Persian literature, Indo-Iranian literature, history of Islamic civilization | msimid@yorku.ca | 162-164, Founders College, 22581 |
 | Hira Singh Sociology | Social Theory; Social Inequality; Social Movements; Feudalism in Non-European and European Societies; Colonialism and Popular Protests; Empire and Indenture (South Africa) | hsingh@yorku.ca | 2106 Vari Hall, 60301 |
 | Ian Smith Languages, Literatures and Linguistics |
iansmith@yorku.ca | S546A Ross, 33791 | |
Sharada Srinivasan Social Science, International Development Studies |
sharada@yorku.ca | 315 Founders College, 22739 | ||
Alicia Turner Humanities |
turnera@yorku.ca | 241 Vanier College, 66979 | ||
| Sundar Viswanathan Music, Fine Arts | Hindi Popular Music and Cinema, Music Theory and Analysis, Music Aesthetics, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Theory and Analysis, Bossa Nova, Jazz Performance Practice, Hybrid musics and 'Fusion' genres, Saxophone Performance and Pedagogy | sundarv@yorku.ca | 365 Accolade East, 70184 |
