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PhDs

Ishani Dasgupta

Emergence of a Deterritorialized Nation: How Tibetan Political Practices Confront the Precarity of Statelessness

2022

Divya Kumar-Dumas

The Experience of Early Designed Landscape in South Asia: Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, & Mamallapuram, India 

2021

Samana Gururaja

Marriage, Kinship, and Political Hierarchy in the Evolution of the Hoysala Family

2021

Philip Friedrich

Merchants, Ministers, and Monks: Making Buddhist Power and Place in Medieval Sri Lanka

2020

Jawan Rasikh

Early Islamic Ghur, 10th-12th Centuries C.E.: Rereading The Tabaqat-I Nasiri

2019

Samira Junaid

In Praise of Shahul Hamid, Historicizing an Islamic Tamil Hagiographical Tradition, 1650–1950

2019

Sudev Sheth

Business Households, Financial Capital, and Public Authority in India, 1650-1818

2018

Michael Collins

Recalling Democracy: Electoral Politics, Minority Representation, and Dalit Assertion in Modern India

2017

Darakhshan Khan

Fashioning the Pious Self: Middle Class Religiosity in Colonial India

2016

Samuel Ostroff

The Beds of Empire: Power and Profit at the Pearl Fisheries of South India and Sri Lanka, c.1770-1840

2016

Sarah Pierce Taylor

Aesthetics of Sovereignty: The Poetic and Material Worlds of Medieval Jainism

2016

Purvi Parikh

Does Character Count: Moral Self-Fashioning in the Swadhyaya and Chinmaya Mission Movements

2014

Kathryn Hardy

Becoming Bhojpuri: Producing Cinema and Producing Language in Post-Liberalization India

2014

David Buchta

Pedagogical Poetry: Didactics and Devotion in Rapa Gosvamins Stavamala

2014

Steven Vose

The Making of a Medieval Jain Monk: Language, Power, And Authority in the Works of Jinaprabhasuri (ca. 1261-1333)

2013

Ananya Dasgupta

Labors of Representation: Cultivating Land, Self, and Community Among Muslims in Late Colonial Bengal

2013

Simone McCarter

Tantric Selves: Body, Mind, and Society in the Religious Cultures of Medieval Kashmir

2012

Ayesha Irani

Sacred biography, translation, and conversion: The "Nabivamsa" of Saiyad Sultan and the making of Bengali Islam, 1600--present

2011

Melanie Dean

From Darshan to Drishti: 'Evil Eye' and the Politics of Visibility in Contemporary South India

2011

Aaron Mulvany

Flood of Memories: Narratives of Flood and Loss in Tamil South India

2011

Christopher Perkins

Partitioning History: The Creation of an Islami Pablik in Colonial India, c. 1880-1920

2010

Walter Hakala

Diction and dictionaries: Language, literature, and learning in Persianate South Asia

2010

Theodore Benke

The Śūdrācāraśiromai of Kṛṣṇa Śea: A 16th Century Manual of Dharma for Śūdras

2010

Vasu Renganathan

The language of Tirumular's "Tirumantiram", a medieval Saiva Tamil religious text

2010

James Caron

Cultural histories of Pashtun nationalism, public participation, and social inequality in monarchic Afghanistan, 1905-1960

2009

Michael Linderman

Charity's venue: Representing Indian kingship in the monumental pilgrim rest houses of the Maratha Rajas of Tanjavur, 1761-1832

2009

John Nemec

Saiva arguments against the grammarians: Somananda's Sivadr

2005

David Gold

“Tīrthacintāmani” of Vācaspatimiśra: A critical edition and translation of the Sāmānya, Prayāga, and Purusottama sections

2002