Over 160 UChicago Alumni, Professors Sign Open Letter Against Changes at its SALC Dept
'Given the national significance of SALC, dismantling its distinctive programs and offerings will cause irreparable damage to the research and teaching capacity on South Asia across the US,' the letter states.
The Wire Staff
Aug 07 2025
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Over 160 University of Chicago students, alumni and former faculty members have written to the University of Chicago administration advising against the prospective changes to the department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations (SALC) at the university. The letter and the list of signatories is published in full below.
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To: Deborah Nelson, Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities, Provost Katherine Baicker, and President Paul Alivisatos
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We, the undersigned—former University of Chicago students of South Asia from across the disciplines and faculty members who formerly taught in the South Asian Languages and Civilizations (SALC) department—write to express our alarm at the potential impact on SALC of the proposed restructuring of the Division of Arts & Humanities.
SALC is the leading program in South Asian studies in North America. Established in 1966, it was the first U.S. department entirely devoted to the humanistic study of South Asia, offering instruction in more languages taught by full-time specialists than any institution outside South Asia. Recognized for its rigorous philological and linguistic training, SALC has paved the way for the development of South Asian studies as a thriving interdisciplinary area of research that draws on established disciplines in generative and creative ways. Over the past sixty years, its faculty members have conducted groundbreaking research and trained generations of undergraduate and graduate students. Chicago PhDs who received language and textual training in SALC have taken up academic positions in history, religion, anthropology, and literature at colleges and universities across the US and abroad. Alumni have also had successful careers outside academia: in government, NGOs, think tanks, or the arts, including a recent awardee of the International Booker Prize.
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We are especially concerned about the possible impact of restructuring on the offerings in South Asian languages. It is impossible to gain cultural competence in a region without developing proficiency in its languages. SALC is renowned for its unmatched breadth and depth in both the classical and modern languages of South Asia, a resource more important than ever given the global significance of South Asia today. Terminating language instruction or relocating it outside the department would sever a crucial connection with the broader research mission of SALC.
We write as scholars and professionals whose careers have been profoundly shaped by our participation in the SALC community—careers, whether academic or professional, that we would never have had without the training we received in this department. While we recognize that Chicago, like other universities, is facing budgetary challenges, those challenges should not be met by sacrificing the University's long and distinguished commitment to excellence in humanistic inquiry in general and South Asian studies in particular.
We urge University leadership to:
- Retain SALC as an independent department, with its undergraduate and graduate programs intact.
- Maintain advanced courses in South Asian languages, taught by full-time faculty.
- Lift class-size restrictions that would eliminate the teaching of critical languages.
Given the national significance of SALC, dismantling its distinctive programs and offerings will cause irreparable damage to the research and teaching capacity on South Asia across the U.S., and serious reputational damage to the University of Chicago. We urge you to reconsider taking any action that would effectively extinguish its vital academic role.
| Name | Current and/or Former Position(s) | Department(s), Graduate Degree(s) and Year(s) Awarded | Concentration(s) and Year of Undergraduate Degree |
| Richard Nance | Associate Professor, Indiana University-Bloomington | Divinity School A.M., 1997; Ph.D. 2004 | |
| Arjun Appadurai | Faculty Member SALC (1992- 2002) | Committee on Social Thought 1976 | |
| Ayelet Kotler | Postdoctoral Researcher, Leiden University | SALC, PhD, 2023 | |
| Sheldon Pollock | Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, U. of Chicago (1989-2005); Raghunatha Professor of South Asian Studies Emeritus, Columbia U. | ||
| Lawrence McCrea | Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 2007-present, Preceptor of Sanskrit, Harvard University, 2003-2007 | SALC, PhD, 1998 | |
| David Lelyveld | Retired Professor, William Paterson University, University of Minnesota | History, PhD, 1975 | |
| Faisal Devji | Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History, University of Oxford | History MA (1987) PhD (1993) | History and Anthropology 1986 |
| Eric Moses Gurevitch | Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University | Ph.D., South Asian Languages and Civilizations & the Conceptual and Historical Study of Science, University of Chicago, 2022 | B.A., Religious Studies, University of Chicago, 2013 |
| Edward Yazijian | Lecturer in Religion and Asian Studies, Furman University, Greenville, SC University | SALC, AM, 2002; SALC, PhD, 2007 | |
| Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi | Professor of History, University of Toronto | History | Political Science |
| Martha Ann Selby | Sangam Professor of South Asian Studies | SALC Ph.D., 1994 | |
| Michael Fisher | Danforth Professor of History, Emeritus, Oberlin College | MA 1973 and PhD. 1978 | |
| Theo Johnson | SALC Major, 2025 | ||
| Ann Grodzins Gold | Emerita Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion, Syracuse University and Professor Emeritus by Courtesy Appointment, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University | Anthropology, MA 1978; PhD 1984 | Anthropology 1975 |
| Homi K. Bhabha | Professor of English | ||
| Probal Dasgupta | Retired in 2018 as Professor and Head, Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India; served earlier as Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Hyderabad (1989-2006), and as Dean, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, India (2001-2004) | New York University, Dept of Linguistics, M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1980 | Linguistics; Pali; 1973 |
| Paula Richman | Danforth Professor of South Asian Religions | South Asian Languages and Civilizations, 1982 | Academic study of religion, 1974 |
| Daisy Rockwell | International Booker Prize winning Hindi-Urdu translator and artist | SALC MA PhD 1998 | SALC 1991 BA |
| Wendy Doniger | Mircea Eliade Professor Emeritus in the History of Religions | Full Professor in SALC from 1968 to 2017 | Full Professor in SALC from 1968 to 2017 |
| James L. Fitzgerald | Das Professor of Sanskrit, Dept. of Classics, Brown University, 2007-2018; Professor Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, 1978-2007 | South Asian Languages and Civilizations, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1980 | Civilizational Studies, New Collegiate Div.1971 |
| Francesco Pio Rahe | Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, Religious Studies, 2025 | ||
| Andrew J. Nicholson | Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University | South Asian Languages and Civilzations, Ph.D., 2005 | |
| Richard H. Davis | Assistant and Associate Professor, Yale University (1987-1997), Associate and Full Professor, Bard College (1997- 2022) | 1986, South Asian Languages and Civilization | 1973, History and Philosophy of Religion (New Collegiate Division) |
| Ananya Vajpeyi | Professor CSDS New Delhi INDIA | SALC PhD 2004 | |
| Spencer A Leonard | Professor at James Madison University | SALC/History PhD 2009 | |
| Janet Gyatso | Harvard University Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies | PhD Buddhist Studies 1981 | Religion 1972 |
| amrita shodhan | Senior Research Fellow, Department of Development Studies, Sr. Teaching Fellow, Department of History, SOAS, University of London | SALC, PhD 1995 | N/a |
| Susan Snow Wadley | Professor Syracuse University, 1970-2019..... Director South Asia Center, Syracuse University, 1987 --2015 | Anthropolgy.MA 1967. PhD 1973 | |
| Aleksandar Uskokov | Senior Lector and Associate Research Scholar, Yale University | SALC, 2018 | |
| Ritty Lukose | Assistant Professor, Univ of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor, New York University | Anthropology, PHD, 2001 | Economics, 1989 |
| Dr. Ritu Radhakrishnan | SUNY Oswego Department Chair and Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction | ||
| carolyn elliott | Professor of Political Science Emerita, University of Vermont | ||
| Dr. Carol M. Babiracki | Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology and Director, South Asia Center, Syracuse University, Retired | ||
| Elaine M. Fisher | Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford University | Divinity School MA (2007) | SALC, Religious Studies (2005) |
| Ilanit Loewy Shacham | Associate prof., dept of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University | MA Religious Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2007; PhD, SALC, 2015 | BArch, 1999, Technion |
| Jayson Beaster-Jones | Professor of Music, University of California - Merced | Anthropology, Ph.D., 2007 | |
| Shreeyash Palshikar | South Asia Instructor, Fordham University | South Asian Languages & Civilizations, PhD, 2007 | South Asian Studies, 1995 (Amherst College) |
| John Leavitt | Professor, Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal | Anthropology, PhD 1985 | |
| Adi Hastings | former Assistant Professor of Anthropolgoy, University of Iowa | Anthropology and Linguistics, 2004 PhD | |
| Adam Singerman | Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Syracuse University | PhD in Linguistics from UChicago 2018 | |
| Gloria Goodwin Raheja | Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota | In the South Asia department I fulfilled all requirements for an AM degree except the thesis, and then moved to the Department of Anthropology, continued to study Hindi, and was awarded the AM degree in 1976 and the PhD in 1985. | |
| Jesse Ross Knutson | Professor University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa | SALC: MA 2005; PhD 2009. | Sanskrit and Bengali literary history |
| Sanjukta Poddar | Asst Professor in Modern South Asian Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands | SALC, Phd 2022 | |
| Robert Yelle | University Professor, LMU Munich | PhD, History of Religions, 2002 | |
| Vasudha Narayanan | current position: Distinguished Professor, Religion, University of Florida | ||
| Anne M. Blackburn | Currently: Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University; Previously: Assistant/Associate Professor, University of Souther Carolina | The Divinity School, Ph.D., 1996, M.A. 1990 | |
| Daniel Morgan | Asst. Professor of South Asian Islam, Santa Clara University | ||
| Andrew Halladay | Assistant Professor, the London School of Economics | SALC, 2023 | |
| Swati Singh | Private practice | Pritzker School of Medicine, M.D., 1993 | Biology 1988 |
| William Elison | Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara | Ph.D., History of Religions (Divinity School), 2007 | |
| Daniel Gold | Professor of S A Religions, Emeritus, Cornell U, Dept of Asian Studies | Divinity School MA, 1976; PhD,1982 | |
| Frederick Smith | Professor (Emeritus) of Sanskrit & Classical Indian Religions, Unniversity of Iowa | ||
| Mark T Lycett | Currently: Practice Professor of Anthropology and Director, South Asia Center University of Pennsylvania; Formerly: Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago, South Asia Civilizations Instructor for and Director of Pune Abroad program for 15 years | ||
| Beatrice Jauregui | Associate Professor, University of Toronto | Anthropology, PhD, 2010 | |
| Mario D'Amato | Professor, GCAS College Dublin | Divinity School, Ph.D., 2000 | |
| Alex Yeung | |||
| Philip Oldenburg | 45 yrs post-graduate teaching at Columbia University; plus visiting professor teaching at U of Chicago [one quarter]; University of Illinois (3 yrs); SAIS, Washington (two semesters); U Texas, Austin (three semesters); et al. | Political Science PhD (1972) | Not applicable |
| Samuel Wright | Associate Professor, Plaksha University (India) | SALC, PhD, 2014 | Sanskrit, History, Bengali, Philosophy |
| Margherita Trento | Associate professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) | SALC PhD, 2020 | |
| Prof. Dr. William Sax | postdoc harvard, sr lecturer Christchurch, Prof Heidelberg | PhD 1987 | |
| Yigal Bronner | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, formerly SALC | ||
| Victor B. D'Avella | Lecturer in Sanskrit University of Oxford | MA and PhD from SALC | |
| Vinay Lal | Professor of History (and Asian American Studies), UCLA | South Asian Languages & Civilizations (SALC), PhD, 1992 | |
| Jamal Jones | Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Wisconsin Madison | PhD, SALC, 2018 | AB, Religious Studies, 2008 |
| Jeffery D. Long | Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College | AM (1993) and PhD (2000) Divinity School. | |
| Charles Hallisey | Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard University | Divinity School Ph.D. 1988 | |
| Anupama Rao | Professor, History | Anthropology and History, PhD, 1999 | GSHum, 1991 |
| Padma Kaimal | History of art, ph.d, 1988 Berkeley | ||
| Eliza Kent | Professor and former chair of Religious Studies at Skidmore College | The Divinity School, Ph.D. in the History of Religions, 1999 | Religion Studies, 1989 |
| Andy Rotman | Jill Ker Conway Chair of Religion and South Asian Studies, Smith College | SALC, PhD, 2003 | |
| Ihsan Ul-Ihthisam | SALC | PhD | |
| Donald Camp | retired US foreign service officer | SALC, n.do | n.a. |
| Professor Ramani Hettiarachchi | Professor of History | Department of history, University of Peradeniya | 1986 |
| Richard M. Eaton | Professor of History, Univ. of Arizona | PhD in History, 1972 | South Asian history, 1962 |
| Amreeta | Graduate Student | MA 2021, PhD student since 2024 | English Literature 2019 |
| Arjun Bhattacharya | SALC, PhD Candidate, Year 6 | ||
| Stephen Blake | Retired U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer | Ph.D. Political Science 1982 | |
| Amber H. Abbas | Associate Professor History (South Asia); Director of the Nealis Program in Asian Studies at Saint Joseph's University | The University of Texas, 2012 Ph.D. South Asian History | Duke University, 1999 Comparative Area Studies |
| Fariha Khan | Co-Director, Asian American Studies | Folklore and Folklife, PhD 2008 | South Asian American Muslims |
| Tyler Neill | |||
| Steven Lindquist | Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University | MA, SALC | N/A |
| Jeanne Marecek | Professor Emerita, Swarthore college | ||
| Rohini Menon | MA Student/ Master’s Advance Intern (UChicago) | Divinity School, MA, 2025 Spring | |
| Suchismita Das | Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University, India | Anthropology, PhD, 2019 | |
| Sarath Pillai | Kenneth Pye Visiting Assistant Professor, SMU, Dallas | History Department | PhD History |
| Manan Ahmed | Professor of History | SALC, PhD, 2008 | |
| John Nemec | Professor of Indian Religions and South Asian Studies, University of Virginia | ||
| Ellie Harris | MA Islamic Studies, 2025 | Philosophy 2023 | |
| Yashmita Yashmita | South Asian media studies graduate student | ||
| Joya John | Assistant Professor of Literature | SALC PhD 2020 | |
| Kamini Masood | PhD Candidate, Columbia University | ||
| Akeel Bilgrami | Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy,, former Director of South Asian Institute, Columbia University | Philosophy ph.d, 1983 | |
| Francesca Chubb-Confer | Current Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College; former Divinity School Teaching Fellow and Instructor of Urdu | Divinity School, PhD, 2020 | |
| Subhashini Kaligotla | Barbara Stoler Miller Associate Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Columbia University | ||
| Suddhadeep Mukherjee | TA Comparative Literature, Graduate Assistant of Global Asias Initiative at Rutgers | Comparative Literature, PhD (Fourth Year) | |
| Pritha Mukherjee | PhD candidate | Historical Studies, MA, 2017 | Chemistry, 2014 |
| Meghan Hartman | |||
| Tasfia Rahman | PhD Candidate, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University | MAPSS 2015 | |
| Janet A. Walker | Professor of Comparative Literature | Comparative Literature, Ph.D. 1974 | |
| Zuleyha Fikret | Professor at Columbia University | 2010 | 1998 |
| Abhishek Bhattacharyya | Clinical Assistant Professor of South Asian Cultures, at New York University - Liberal Studies, New York | PhD in SALC and Anthropology, 2022. | |
| Arthur Dudney | Visiting student in SALC, 2010 | Columbia MESAAS, PhD, 2013 | |
| Elliot Montpellier | Lecturer, Anthropology, Simon Fraser University | Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, PhD 2023 | |
| Nusrat S Chowdhury | Professor, Anthropology, Amherst College | Anthropology, PhD, 2012 | |
| Anna Seastrand | Harper-Schmidt Fellow, 2013- 2017 | ||
| Jeffrey Martin | Librarian for South Asian Studies & Anthropology | ABD Cultural Anthropology , MLS -- Syracuse University | Zoology and Psychology -- Duke University |
| Asher Ghertner | Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers | ||
| Victoria Farmer | Affiliated Faculty, Florida Atlantic University | PhD, political science, U Penn, 2004 | South Asian Civilization Studies , U Chicago, 1979 |
| Hans Ulrich Harder | Professor of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany | PhD (1997), Habilitation (Postdoc) (2006), Full Professor (2007) | 1992 |
| Vishakha N Desai | Senior Fellow, Committee on Global Thought, senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President, Columbia university | Ph. D. University of Michigan, 1983 | |
| Parimal G. Patil | Wales Professor of Sanskrit/Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy | ||
| Anne Mohapatra | Tamil Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany | M.A. Communication, Literature and Media in Modern South Asian Languages | |
| Timsal Masud | Lecturer at Columbia University | ||
| Heidi Pauwels | SOAS, London; University of Washington, Seattle | University of Washington, Seattle, 1994 | KU Leuven, Belgium 1986 |
| Rajita Banerjee | M.A (2025 graduate), South Asian Studiess | MSc. International Politics (2020, SOAS), M.A, South Asian Studies (Columbia University, 2025) | History, 2019 |
| Ute Huesken | Director, South Asia Institute Heidelberg | ||
| J. Patrick Olivelle | Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin | Recipient of Honorary Doctor of Letter from U. of Chicago, 2016 | |
| Syeda Masood | Assistant Professor, Hamline University | ||
| Ellen Ambrosone | South Asian Studies Librarian | SALC, PhD, 2016 | |
| Gautam GHOSH | Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong | Anthropology and South Asian Studies, PHD, 2000 | |
| Jennifer Dubrow | Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington | South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Ph.D., 2011 | |
| Daniel Waqar | PhD candidate, Department of History, Tufts University | N/A | N/A |
| Linda Iltis | RETIRED, SEATTLE, LECTURER | UW MADISON MA CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1978, PHD SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE, 1985 | ANTHROPOLOGY UW-MADISON WI 1976 |
| Gautham Reddy | South Asia Librarian, Emory University | SALC, PhD, 2020 | |
| Ramona Crawford | |||
| Anisa Rahim | Attorney and Author | BA 2000 | English and South Asian Civ, 2000 |
| Purnima Dhavan | Associate Prof. , History, University of Washington, Seattle | n/a | n/a |
| Sudipta Kaviraj | Visiting Professor for a semester in 2004 | ||
| Ryan Brizendine | Instructor, University of California Davis | Divinity School, MA, 2013 | n/a |
| Jagadish Babu Mala | Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of London | Department of Comparative Literature, EFL University, Hyderabad, India | Two years of Masters and three years of Undergraduate degree |
| Avital Datskovsky | PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Syracuse University | SALC, AB 2013 | SALC, 13 |
| Jackson Macor | PhD Candidate, Group in Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley | MA Divinity, University of Chicago (2020) | SALC and Mathematics (2017) |
| Prateek Sharma | Member, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) / Former Assistant Professor, Department of English, Loyola Academy, Hyderabad | Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad [Graduate Student (2021- 2023)] | |
| Ofer Peres | South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University | ||
| Hajnalka Kovacs | Preceptor in Hindi and Urdu, Instructor, Indo-Persian (Harvard), Cataloger for North Indian Languages (The British Library); Lecturer in Hindi (Duke) | SALC, PhD, 2013 | |
| Mahmood Mamdani | Herbert Lehman Professor of Government - Dept of Anthropology | Government - 1975 | Political Science - 1967 |
| Govinda Rajan | CEO Agraj Seva Kendra NJ 08831 | History | Asian History 2007 |
| Bradley Rubinstein | 1986 | ||
| Lucy Jones | Economics, Applied Math and South Asian Studies, 2016 | ||
| Katherine Pratt Ewing | Professor Emerita, Religion; former director, South Asia Institute, Columbia University | Cultural Anthropology, PhD, 1980 | |
| Kayla Bunsee | Political science and political philosophy: year 2027 | ||
| Richard Weiss | Adjunct Professor of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington | Divinity School, 2003 | Optical Engineering, 1988 |
| Wafi Momin | Assistant Professor, Head, Ismaili Special Collections Unit (The Institute of Ismaili Studies) | SALC, PhD, 2006 | |
| Ranu Roychoudhuri | Associate Professor, Ahmedabad University | South Asian Languages and Civilizations, PhD, 2015 | NA |
| Francis X. Clooney | Harvard University, Parkman Professor of Divinity | SALC PhD 1984 | |
| Shefali Jha | Anthropology, MA & PhD, 2010, 2017 | ||
| Prof. Dr. Naima Tabassum | Professor, Far East & Southeast Asia Study Center, University of Sindh, Pakistan | ||
| Francesca Orsini | Professor emerita, Hindi and South Asian literatures, SOAS, University of London and former Vivekananda Professor at SALC | ||
| Dulali Nag | Retired | Anthropology, M. A., 1982 | |
| Lisa Klopfer | 1974 master, 1986 doctorate | Widow of Lee I. Schlesinger B.A. 1972 | |
| Smita Gandotra | 2013 | ||
| Tyler Neenan | Divinity Masters (2019), Divinity PhD (2027) | Philosophy, Classics 2016 | |
| Kunza Shakil | |||
| Stefan Lueder | Assistant Professor | ||
| Sanjib Baruah | Professor Emeritus of Political Studies | Political Science, 1983 | |
| Geraldine Forbes | Distinguished Teaching Professor, State University of New York Oswego | History, MA and PhD University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 1971 | Bachelors degree, University of Alberta |
| Catherine DuBreck | |||
| Sanjay Tiwari | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | PhD Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1987 | |
| Pabitrabhushan Sarkar | Former Vice-Chancellor, Rabindra Bharati University, India | Linguistics, 1969-73 | |
| Bulbul Tiwari | Adjunct faculty, Parsons, The New School | MA & PhD SALC 2008 University of Chicago | Comp. Lit AB Harvard '99 |
| Jane Mikkelson | Assistant Professor, Yale University | SALC & NELC, PhD, 2019 | |
| Xi He | |||
| Ajay Rao | Associate Professor, University of Toronto (formerly Vice-Dean Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs) | Divinity School, 2006 | |
| Preetha Mani | Associate Professor, Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University | Ph.D. South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California-Berkeley, 2012 | 2001-English and Philosophy |
| Fauzia E. Ahmed | Associate Professor Miami Universitty Ohio | Harvard University MS 1982, Brandeis University PhD 1982 | Harvard University 1977 |
| David Shulman | Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University | ||
| Philip Lutgendorf | Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies, University of Iowa (Emeritus; retired 2018); President, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2010-2018 | University of Chicago, SALC 1982 (MA), 1986 (Ph.D.) | U. of Chicago, 1971, History and Philosophy of Religions |
| Eduardo Acosta | Mellon Fellow of Scholar in the Humanities, Stanford University | SALC, PhD, 2022 |
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