Faculty
Professors
Sarasij Majumder
Sita and Bhaskara Rao Mutyala Endowed Professor of India Studies
Director of India Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Email: smajumd4@central.uh.edu
Mohan Ambikaipaker
Associate Professor & Associate Director, World Cultures and Literatures Program
Ph.D., University of Texas - Austin
Email: mambikai@Central.UH.EDU
Prashanth Nandikoor Bhat
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland-College Park
Email: nrbhat2@central.uh.edu
Nandini Bhattacharya
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University College London
Email: nsbhatta@central.uh.edu
Pratik Chakrabarti
Professor, Faculty
Ph.D., Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Email: pchakra7@central.uh.edu
Sreya Chatterjee
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., West Virginia University
M.A., Jadavpur University, India
Email: schatterjee6@uh.edu
Office: 235A Roy Cullen Building
Phone: 713.743.7291
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Auritro Majumder
Associate Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Email: amajumder@uh.edu
Office: 234A Roy Cullen Building
Phone: 713.743.5875
Keith McNeal
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Ph.D., Emory University
Email: kemcneal@uh.edu
Office: 258D McElhinney Hall
Phone: 713.743.3987
Arif Hayat Nairang
Post-Doctoral Scholar in India Studies
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Email: anairang@central.uh.edu
Tanika Raychaudhuri
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.A., Politics, Princeton University
Email: traychaudhuri@uh.edu
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Debarati Sen
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Email: dsen2@central.uh.edu
Office: 258B Philip G. Hoffman Hall
Ivan Small
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies
Ph.D., Cornell University
Email: ivsmall@central.uh.edu
Bhavya Tiwari
Associate Professor of India Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
M.A., Jadavpur University, India
Email: btiwari@uh.edu
Office: 435 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: 713.743.1737
Thangavel Vijayalakshmi
Visiting Professor of Tamil Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Ph.D. University of Kerala
Email: tvijayal@central.uh.edu
Office: 612 Agnes Arnold Hall