Centre for South Asian Studies

Beatrice Jauregui

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
• 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: 416-978-6438
Languages: Hindi
Website
Email: beatrice.jauregui@utoronto.ca
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Christoph Emmrich

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Historical Studies
• 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
Email: christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca
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Kanta Murali

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and 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
Website
Email: kanta.murali@utoronto.ca
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Ken MacDonald

Associate Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural Identity in Northern Pakistan
• Cultural identity politics
• Culture and biodiversity conservation
• Environment and development
• Ethics and development
• Exploitation of mountaineering porters
• Kashmir
• Natural hazards and vulnerability
• New cultural ecologies of consumption
• Restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation

Office: (416) 287-7294
Home: 416-466-2651
Languages: Balti
Website
Email: ken.macdonald@utoronto.ca
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Shashi Kant

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Institute for Management and Innovation
• Centres
  • Centre for South Asian Studies
  • Institute for Management & Innovation (UTM)
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Aboriginal Values and Sustainability
• Ecological Economics
• Economics of Sustainable Forest Management
• Experimental Economics
• Extending the boundaries of forest economics beyond the economics of timber.
• Love and Sustainability
• Quantification and Strategies to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Office: 905-569-5739
Languages: Hindi
Website
Email: shashi.kant@utoronto.ca
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