Centre for South Asian Studies

Beatrice Jauregui

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • School of Graduate Studies
• Department
  • Anthropology
• Centres
  • Asian Institute
  • Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies
  • Centre for South Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Corruption
• Police
• Policing
• Political-legal ethnography
• Security
• South Asia
• State violence
• Veterans

Office: 416-978-7124
Languages: Hindi
Website
Email: beatrice.jauregui@utoronto.ca
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Christoph Emmrich

Director, Centre for South Asian Studies

Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Buddhism Hinduism and Jainism
• Nepal Burma and Tamil Nadu (India)
• Newar; Nepali; Burmese; Mon; Tamil; Sanskrit and Pali languages and literatures
• Religion; ritual; gender; children; girl children‎; time; travel and memory
• South Asia and Southeast Asia
• The Newars the Mon and the Tamilians

Office: (416) 978-6463
Website
Email: christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca
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Kanta Murali

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Political Science
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Comparative Political Economy of Development
• Ethnicity and Economic Development
• Indian politics
• Inequality
• Labour policy
• Politics of development and economic policy in India
• State Capacity
• State-Business Relations

Office: 416-978-8492
Mobile: 647-964-1870
Email: kanta.murali@utoronto.ca
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Kenneth MacDonald

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Geography & Planning
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural identity politics
• Culture and biodiversity conservation
• Environment and development
• Ethics and development
• Exploitation of mountaineering porters
• Kashmir
• Natural hazards and vulnerability

Office: 416-287-7294
Home: 416-466-2651
Languages: Balti
Email: ken.macdonald@utoronto.ca
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Ritu Birla

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Colonial and postcolonial cultural studies
• India (modern history)
• South Asia (modern history)

Office: 416-978-8476
Home: 416-946-8913
Languages: Hindi
Email: r.birla@utoronto.ca
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Shashi Kant

Professor, Faculty of Forestry

Director, Master of Science in Sustainability Management Program

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies
  • Institute for Management & Innovation (UTM)
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Economics and natural resources
• Forest resource economics
• Sustainability Management

Office: 416-978-6196
Home: 416-546-1861
Languages: Hindi
Email: shashi.kant@utoronto.ca
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