Faculty

Smith and the Five Colleges have a wide variety of faculty involved in the South Asia. Faculty marked with an asterisk (*) can serve as an adviser or provide you with more information about the concentration.

Directors of the South Asia Concentration

*Nalini Bhushan
Professor, Philosophy
nbhushan@smith.edu
(413) 585-3421

*Andy Rotman
Associate Professor, Religion
arotman@smith.edu
(413) 585-3348

Participating Faculty

Elisabeth Armstrong
Associate Professor, Study of Women and Gender
earmstro@smith.edu
(413) 585-3634

Payal Banerjee
Assistant Professor, Sociology
pbanerje@smith.edu
(413) 585-3677

*Jay L. Garfield
Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy
jgarfield@smith.edu
(413) 585-3649

Michael Gorra
Mary Augusta Jordan Professor, English Language & Literature
mgorra@smith.edu
(413) 585-3305

*Ambreen Hai
Associate Professor, English Language & Literature
ahai@smith.edu
(413) 585-3311

Pinky Hota
Associate Professor, Anthropology
phota@smith.edu
(413) 585-3269

Leslie Jaffe
College Physician & Director, Medical Services
ljaffe@smith.edu
(413) 585-2806

Marylin Rhie
Jesse Wells Professor of Art and Professor of East Asian Studies
mrhie@smith.edu
(413) 585-3138

Margaret Sarkissian
Professor, Music
msarkiss@smith.edu
(413) 585-3198

*Charles Staelin
Professor, Economics
cstaelin@smith.edu
(413) 585-3621