South Asia Studies at the Australian National University

Prema-chandra Athukorala (ASARC, RSPAS)
Development macroeconomics: international capital mobility and financial crisis; structural adjustment and stabilisation reforms; and determinants of economics growth. Trade and development: trade policy reforms, multinational enterprises and international production, patterns and determinants of trade flows, and international labour migration.

Satish Chand (Crawford School of Economics and Government)
Economic growth, international trade, development.

Stephen Howes (Crawford School of Economics and Government)
Aid policy, public finance in developing countries, international climate change policy.

Raghbendra Jha (ASARC, RSPAS)
Macroeconomic problems of developing countries, optimal tax and price policy, Indian economic problems–in particular, poverty, undernutrition and financial sector reforms. Politics and security.

Politics and Security

Bina D'Costa (Centre for International Governance & Justice, RegNet)
Research projects: 'Disappeared Generation: Children conceived through violent conflict and national identity in the Indian Subcontinent'; 'Faith-based NGOs, the Development Agenda and the Politics of Secularism in Bangladesh'; working with NGOs in Bangladesh and India on historical injustices, truth and memory in relation to the strategies of civil society in demanding justice when there is a hostile government in power.

Alexander (Sandy) Gordon (Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, RegNet)
Security studies, intelligence, terrorism, transnational crime and Australia–India relationship.

Robin Jeffrey (RSPAS)
Modern history and politics of India; Indian newspaper industry and Indian media; matrilineal societies, particularly in Kerala in south India; the Khalistan secessionist movement in the Punjab; ethnicity, nationalism and identity formation.

Brij Lal (Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS)
Contemporary Pacific Islands history; Fiji; comparative constitutionalism; plantation systems and labour history; Asian diaspora.

William Maley (Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy)
Afghanistan, security, warfare, post-conflict reconstruction, refugees.

Amin Saikal (Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Arts)
Politics, history, political economy and international relations of the Middle East and Central Asia.

Society and culture

Assa Doron (Anthropology, RSPAS)
The anthropology of contemporary India, and South Asia and Southeast Asia more generally; development studies and contemporary health practices amongst middle class Indians; urbanization; modernity, and identity politics; religion; tourism studies; postcolonial studies, ethnographic practice, diaspora studies.

Richard Barz (South and West Asia Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies)
Hindi language and literature; analysis of the Islamic Avadhi terminology in Manjhan's Madhumalati; filming and editing video-taped description of the Himalayan Hindu pilgrimages to Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri-Gomukh and Yamunotri in Uttaranchal, India.

Debjani Ganguly (Centre for Cross-Cultural Research)
Postcolonial theory, globalization studies in the form of transnational intellectual movements and transnational religious fundamentalisms, studies of South Asian diaspora and diasporic cultural productions; translation studies and Indian literary criticism, dalit histories, vocabularies of violence and non-violence, phenomenology of religious faith, impact of religious conversion movements on everyday lives and post-secular approaches to studies of the sacred.

Patrick Kilby (School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts)
Non-Governmental Organisations; empowerment and marginalisation; gender; managing development activities; South Asia, particularly India.

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (RMAP, RSPAS)
Natural resource management and community development in South Asian countries and in Indonesia; gender; mining and displaced communities in India; urbanisation; water resource management.

John Powers (CASH, Faculty of Asian Studies)
Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, Indian religions.

McComas Taylor (CASH, Faculty of Asian Studies)
Sanskrit language and literature; the construction of truth in the Sanskritic episteme; the ideas of social division in Sanskrit narrative literature.

Yogendra Yadav (South and West Asia Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies)
Hindi and Urdu language and literature, the Indian cultural tradition in Fiji.