CAA faculty members and students involved in research and scholarship relating to South Asia:
Dr. Supriya Baily, George Mason University, Assistant Professor in the Initiatives in Educational Transformation program. She has received her Master's in International Development Studies and her doctorate in International Education. After working with nonprofit organizations for 20 years in the US and India, she has focused her academic career to explore how people and communities move to transform as a result of nonformal education programs. Her work in South Asia focuses on women, nonformal education and community transformation and she has recently published a chapter focusing on adolescent education in India.
Dr. Mahasveta Barua, University of Delaware, Department of English. Her research interests include social movements spearheaded by women from Gandhi's time to ours. With the help of an International Research Grant, she hosted an international conference - Social Movements for Children and Women: Closing the Social Divide in Globalized Times - attended by over 180 people in New Delhi in 2010. Students from University of Delaware participated and shared ideas and information with students from universities in New Delhi. She has also directed study abroad and service learning programs to India. (gbarua@udel.edu)
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Dr. Chandra R. de Silva, Old Dominion University, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters and Professor of History. His published work deals with the history of Sri Lanka, as well as contemporary education, ethnicity, politics and religion in Sri Lanka. His edited volume on Portuguese Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives: Translated Texts from the Age of Discoveries will be published by Ashgate. (cdesilva@odu.edu)
Dr. Paige Johnson Tan, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs. Her work involves research on political parties and democracy in Asia. She also leads an annual two-week, three-credit study abroad trip to India studying development and globalization. To view a slide show of the Spring 2009 trip, click here. (tanp@uncw.edu)
Daniel Gustav Anderson, George Mason University, graduate student, Cultural Studies. His work is concerned with South Asian cultural traditions and intellectual methods (particularly Nagarjuna's dialectics) as they are transformed in concert with imperial and postcolonial conditions, and then commodified in response to neoliberalism. (dander5@gmu.edu)
