Program Administrator:
  Ms. Fariha Khan
Email: fariha@sas.upenn.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Asif Agha Associate Professor Dr. Agha has been teaching at Penn since 1998 in the fields of Anthropology, Linguistics, Folklore, South Asia Studies, and The Lauder Program in International Studies. Before coming to Penn, Agha received his PhD from the University of Chicago. During his time here, Agha has been appointed Faculty Master of Hill College House, and Consulting Curator of the Asian section of the University Museum. Additional interests include language and social relations with a focus in Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan linguistics. Email: asifagha@sas.upenn.edu Homepage: http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/home/bios/bio_AghaA.html

Yoko Goto Butler Associate Professor of Education Ph.D. 1999. Stanford University (Education/Educational Psychology). Dr. Butler’s research focuses on second language and bilingual language acquisition and learning, with particular emphasis on the role of cognitive, metacognitive, and socio-cognitive factors in language learning. Email: ybutler@gse.upenn.edu Homepage: http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/butler.html

Virginia Chang Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine Ph.D. 2003. The University of Chicago (Sociology). M.D. 1994. University of Michigan (Medicine) Dr. Chang's research integrates perspectives from medicine, sociology, and epidemiology to study the reciprocal influence between health and aspects of socio-cultural life and its structural organization. Much of her research has focused on obesity, engaging topics such as historical shifts in the medical conceptualization of obesity; social correlates of the self-appraisal of weight status; the effects of income inequality on weight-related outcomes; and the theorization of health lifestyles as a form of social status and active component of class stratification. Currently, her work seeks to examine the relationship between weight-related outcomes and behaviors and specific aspects of residential environment such as racial and economic segregation, neighborhood poverty and wealth, urban blight and crime, and the distribution of various local resources. Homepage: http://www.med.upenn.edu/crrwh/Chang.html

Peter Conn Andrea Mitchell Professor of English Dr. Conn earned his PhD at Yale before coming to Penn. He has won a number of awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and NEH, along with both the Lindback Award and the Ira Abrams Award for teaching. He is the author of The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917 and of Literature in America, a one-volume history of American literature, both published by Cambridge University Press. Conn's latest book, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, will be published by Cambridge University Press in the fall of 1996. He has served as graduate chair of English and American Civilization, as dean of the college, and as Senior Faculty Resident of Community House. He is currently chair of the manuscripts committee of MLA's Americal Literature Section. Homepage: http://www.english.upenn.edu/%7Epconn/

Surendra Gambhir Senior Lecturer, South Asia Studies Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania His research interests are in the area of sociolinguistics has been in countries with substantial population of Indian origin - Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname (all in the Caribbean Sea area), Mauritius (Indian Ocean) and Fiji (Pacific Ocean). He is proficient in Hindi, Sanskrit, Bhojpuri, Urdu, German, and French. Telephone Number: 215-898-8438 Email: sgambhir@sas.upenn.edu Homepage: http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/home/bios/bio_GambhirS.html Office: 8th Floor, Williams.

Gautam Ghosh Assistant Professor of Anthropology Dr. Gosh studied anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Publications include a Special Issue of the journal, Social Analysis [42(1) 1998] entitled "Partition, Unification, Nation: Imagined Moral Communities in Modernity" which he edited and to which he contributed two articles (being reprinted by Sage India). He has edited a series of commentaries by prominent anthropologists on September 11th 2001 (Anthropological Quarterly, v.75 Winter 2001). An article, entitled "Outsiders At Home," appeared in Everyday Life in India (Indiana University Press, 2002). He has received awards from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, MacArthur & Rockefeller Foundations and the Social Science Research Council. He is on the Editorial Boards of Anthropological Quarterly and The Journal of Peace and Democracy in South Asia and is a 2003-04 Fellow of the Penn Humanities Institute. Homepage: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~gghosh/

Kathleen Hall Associate Professor, GSE Dr. Hall is a social anthropologist whose ethnographic research focuses on issues of citizenship, immigration, race, and class inequality in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Her work locates the study of immigration, education, and social mobility within a broader concern with the politics of difference in culturally plural nations, and asks how “national integration” comes to be conceived and contested in distinctive ways in the public sphere at different levels of social scale: in policy debates, legal cases, media discourse, local politics, and everyday practice. Her book, published with University of Pennsylvania Press, addresses the dynamic tensions between race, nationalism, and communal relations in the lives of Sikh youth in England. Current research focuses on governmentality and the politics of knowledge in global efforts to educate for democracy. Homepage: http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/hall.html

Emily Hannum Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr. Hannum joined the Penn faculty in 2001, having taught previously at Harvard University. Hannum received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography in 1998 from the University of Michigan. Hannum’s research interests focus on access to education and the social and economic consequences of education in developing countries, especially China. Homepage: http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/soc/People/hannumemily.html

Amy Kaplan Professor of English Dr. Kaplan received her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, with a specialty in late-nineteenth-century American literature. Working in the interdisciplinary field of American studies, she teaches courses on the culture of imperialism, comparative perspectives on the Americas, and mourning and memory. Her first book, The Social Construction of American Realism, was published by the University of Chicago (1988). She co-edited with Donald Pease, Cultures of U. S. Imperialism (Duke, 1993). Her new book, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture, is being published by Harvard University Press this fall. She has received an NEH Fellowship and the Norman Forster prize for the best essay in American Literature in 1998 for "Manifest Domesticity." Currently she is president-elect of the American Studies Association. Homepage: http://www.english.upenn.edu/People/Faculty/Standing/kaplan.html

Suvir Kaul Chair and Professor of English Dr. Kaul received his B. A. (Hons.), M. A., and M. Phil. degrees from the University of Delhi, and his Ph. D. from Cornell. His first job was at the SGTB Khalsa College in Delhi; since then, he has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, at Stanford University, and at the Jamia Milia Islamia as a Visiting Professor. He has also held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Canterbury at Kent and at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. He teaches courses in Eighteenth-century British Literature, Contemporary South Asian Writing in English, and in Literary and Critical Theory. He has published two books, Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century (University Press of Virginia, 2000; Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001), and Thomas Gray and Literary Authority: Ideology and Poetics in Eighteenth-Century England (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992; Stanford University Press, 1992) and has recently edited a collection of essays entitled The Partitions of Memory: the afterlife of the division of India (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001; London: C. Hurst, 2001; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002). Email: kaul@english.upenn.edu Homepage: http://www.english.upenn.edu/People/Faculty/Standing/kaul.html Office: 108 Bennett Hall

Phoebe Kropp Assistant Professor of History Ph.D. 1999. University of California, San Diego (History). Dr. Kropp teaches and studies 20th-century U.S. history, with special interests in culture, race, public memory, and the West. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego and a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. She is completing a book based on her dissertation, \"\'All Our Yesterdays\': The Spanish Fantasy Past and the Politics of Public Memory in Southern California, 1884-1939.\" Her new projects include the evolution of national and regional identities in elementary school classrooms and a history of camping. Homepage: http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/kropp.htm

Ania Loomba Catherine Bryson Professor of English Ph.D. University of Susex, UK. She teaches courses in early modern English literature and culture, postcolonial literature and history (especially that of South Asia) and feminist theory. She received her BA (Hons.), M. A., and M. Phil. degrees from the University of Delhi, India, and her Ph. D. from the University of Sussex, UK. She has taught at Hindu College, University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, the University of Tulsa, and most recently, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was Mellon Fellow at Stanford University and has held a visiting appointment at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. Her publications include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press; 1989; Oxford University Press, 1992); Colonialism/ Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998) and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (Oxford University Press, 2002). She has also co-edited (with Martin Orkin) Post-colonial Shakespeares (Routledge, 1998), and written articles on early modern drama, Shakespeare, as well as contemporary India. She is currently co-editing a documentary companion to the study of race in early modern England. Homepage: http://www.english.upenn.edu/People/Faculty/profile.php?pennkey=loomba

Ritty Lukose Assistant Professor of Education. Ph.D. 2001. The University of Chicago (Anthropology) Dr. Lukose’s research focuses on the relationship between education, democracy, modernity, and globalizing capitalism. It seeks to understand how education becomes a contradictory site for social change and transformation, with a strong focus on gender, class, and caste. Her work, so far, has looked at higher education, student politics, youth culture, and transnationalism in Kerala, India. As such, her research is simultaneously interested in international education, development, globalization, and the nature of non-western modernities. She is completing a book manuscript entitled Learning Modernity: Education and Youth Culture in Kerala, India. A second research effort is situated in the United States. The goal here is to understand race, immigration, and multiculturalism in the context of Asian-American minority students’ educational experiences and in the formation of youth cultures. Her work engages the anthropology of education, modernity, and international development, the history and philosophy of education, globalization, youth cultural studies, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, ethnographic theory and practice, South Asian Studies, and Asian-American and Diaspora Studies. Dr. Lukose received a Spencer/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2003-2004 academic year. Homepage: http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/lukose.html

Hyunjoon Park Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Sociology Ph.D. 2005. University of Wisconsin, Madison (Sociology). Hyunjoon Park, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, received his Ph.D. (2005) in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include social stratification, education, and social inequality in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on Asian countries. Recently, he has extended his interest to examine cross-national comparisons of educational differences between immigrant and native children. He is also interested in changing socioeconomic status of Koreans in the United States. Email: hypark@sas.upenn.edu Homepage: http://hyjpark.googlepages.com/home

Jason Schnittker Associate Professsor of Sociology Ph.D. 2001. Indiana University (Sociology). Jason Schnittker is interested in the intersection of medical sociology and social psychology. Two research streams follow from this focus: In the first, he is concerned with racial and socioeconomic differences in health beliefs and behaviors. Specifically, he explores the patterns and sources of race differences in beliefs about the causes and treatment of illness and, in turn, attempts to connect these beliefs to race differences in health behavior. In the second, he is concerned with the epidemiological linkages between race, socioeconomic status, and physical and psychological illness. In this stream, most of his research highlights the role of social and cultural contexts, as well as how social factors condition biological risk. Email: jschnitt@ssc.upenn.edu Homepage: http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/%7Ejschnitt/

Chi-ming Yang Assistant Professor of English Ph.D. 2003. Cornell University (English Literature) Chi-ming Yang received her Ph.D. in English from Cornell University and her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. She has taught at Fordham University and held a Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship at Barnard College, Columbia University. She specializes in 18th-century British literature and culture, with interests in travel writing, empire, colonialism, and East-West relations. Her book project, Oriental Exemplarity: Importing China in Eighteenth-century England, 1660-1760, is a study of the European fascination with Asia in the early modern period. It focuses on how China becomes an intensely debated example of virtue amidst England’s new consumer culture. Publications related to this theme of early modern Orientalism have appeared inComparative Literature Studies and the edited collection, Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Representation, Hybridity, Ethics (forthcoming). Her new work concerns transatlantic slavery, 17th and 18th century economic theories, and the cultural impact of global flows of silver between Latin America and East Asia. - Show quoted text - Email: cmyang@english.upenn.edu Homepage: http://www.english.upenn.edu/People/Faculty/profile.php?pennkey=cmyang