Sean Bala Jindal School of Liberal Arts and HumanitiesBernard Bate Yale-NUS CollegeSamuel Berthet Shiv Nadar UniversitySucheta Bhattacharya Jadavpur UniversityBrian Brophy California Institute of TechnologyRahul ChoudahaKevin DettmarSachin DhawanSumita FurlongRupamanjari GhoshAmlanjyoti GoswamiVandana GoswamiYugank GoyalYudit GreenbergFred HagstromAndrew HayCynthia HumesRahul JayaramRishikesh Krishnan

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R. Krishnaswamy Jindal School of Liberal Arts and HumanitiesNita Kumar Claremont McKenna CollegeRaj Kumar Jindal Global UniversityBertil Lindblad Pomona CollegeNeil Lutsky Carleton College and Ashoka UniversityBennett McClellan Jindal School of Liberal Arts and HumanitiesSusan Jaret McKinstry Carleton College Shailendra Raj Mehta Ahmedabad UniversityShyam Menon Ambedkar University, DelhiKathleen Modrowski Jindal School of Liberal Arts and HumanitiesRudrangshu Mukherjee Ashoka UniversitySandeep Mukherjee Pomona CollegeArjendu Pattanayak Carleton CollegeBryan Penprase Pomona CollegeSteve Poskanzer Carleton CollegeUsha Rajaram UWC Mahindra College, PuneMaya Rao Shiv Nadar UniversitySomak Raychaudhury Presidency UniversitySrinivas Reddy Indian Institute of Technology, GandhinagarCary Reid UWC Mahindra College, PunePelham Lindfield Roberts UWC Mahindra College, PuneGopa Sabharwal Nalanda UniversityLakshmi SaripalliMalabika SarkarVaruna SaxenaJane SchukoskeSambudha SenSomnath SenSucharita SenVanita ShastriGary Tubb

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Dr Sucheta Bhattacharya is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Previously, she has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at Serampore College, a constituent college of the University of Calcutta. She was awarded her PhD at Jadavpur University.

Her teaching interests are European Literature of the Neo-Classical Age, Latin-American non-fictional prose, European Modernism, Realist novels of the 19th century. Her research interests are 19th century Bengali and European novels, translation studies, and the 19th century cityscape.

Brian Brophy

Director, Theater Arts California California Institute of Technology

For the past seven years, Brophy has served as the Director of Theater Arts Caltech and is a twenty-five year veteran actor in the film-tv-theater industry; a Fulbright Scholar; Scholar in Residence Indian Institute of Technology; Artist in Residence California Arts Council/Culture Affairs Department and recipient of a George Soros Foundation funding for a Theater Project in Bosnia. Prior to Caltech he taught college at UCRiverside, Pomona College, Benares Hindu University, IITGandhinagar and CSULA; Research Interests include: Theater for Social Change in India; International collaboration and partnership in the transformation of culture through dialogue, storytelling and friendship. Currently he is working with IIT in an experimental Global Narratives with Caltech/IIT students via Skype. His real passion is developing new work, encouraging new writers, teaching public speaking, writing skills, and non-verbal communication with voice and performance techniques. Most Recently assisted/advised Ken Pickar in the Caltech/Art Center and IITGn (ME 105 Product Design for Indian Market).

Since taking over in 2008 Brophy has directed 12 shows produced 15 and encouraged the formation of a student-driven group Explicit who have taken the last four summer shows and co-produced three musicals with Tacit. Along with receiving a Sloan Foundation/Ensemble Studio Theater Grant, Tacit has presented at Association for Theater Higher Education (ATHE) Conference and hosted several Indian artist-activists, co-producing Tesla, an original radio drama written by Dan Duling at the Pasadena Playhouse, plus performing at Descanso Gardens, and the Armory Center for the Arts.

Rahul Choudaha

Chief Knowledge Officer & Senior Director of Strategic Development

World Education Services, New York

Dr. Rahul Choudaha is an advisor, speaker and blogger on global higher

education trends, insights and strategies with a focus on student mobility,

enrollment management, institution building and academic innovation.

He blogs on DrEducation, HuffingtonPost and UniversityWorldNews.

As the Chief Knowledge Officer & Senior Director of Strategic Development at World Education

Services (WES)—a New York-based non-profit with 40 years’ experience in international education,

he leads a team responsible for research, consulting, innovation and strategy (wes.org/ras). Prior to

coming to the US, he worked as Manager, Admissions at Indian School of Business (ISB),

Hyderabad.

Choudaha is a visiting scholar in Higher Education program of NYU Steinhardt. He received the

Tony Adams Award for Excellence in Research from the European Association of International

Education. He serves as a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Studies in International

Education and the Chair of International Education Leadership Knowledge Community for

NAFSA: Association of International Educators--a membership organization of 10,000

professionals. He is a member of the Board of Directors of InterExchange, Inc.

Choudaha has chaired or presented over 100 sessions at professional conferences like NAFSA,

AIEA, APAIE, CACIE and EAIE. He has been quoted in global media including BBC, TIME,

NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Times Higher Ed, InsideHigherEd,

China Daily and The Economic Times.

Choudaha holds a doctorate in higher education from the University of Denver. He earned a

master’s degree in management and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from India.

Kevin J. H. Dettmar

Professor & Department Chair, Department of English Pomona College

Professor Dettmar received his B.A. from the University of California, Davis, his post-graduate diploma from Trinity College, Dublin, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been with Pomona College since 2008, and serves as the W.M. Keck Professor of English and Department Chair. His expertise include James Joyce; rock & roll; modern British literature; modern Irish literature; popular culture and cultural studies.

Selected Publications

x Gang of Four’s “Entertainment!” 33ѿ Series. London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014x Think Rock (Prentice-Hall, 2011)x Editor, Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan (Cambridge University Press, 2009)x Is Rock Dead? (Routledge, 2006)x The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain (University of Wisconsin Press, 1996)x Co-Editor with M. Wollaeger, Modernist Literature & Culture book series (Oxford University Press,

2007- )x Twentieth Century Editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literatue (D.S. Katstan, gen. ed., Oxford

University Press, 2006)x Co-Editor with D. Bradshaw, The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (Blackwell,

2006) x Co-Editor with W. Richey and contributor, Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics

(Columbia University Press, 1999)x Twentieth-Century Section Co-Editor with J. Wicke, General co-editor with D. Damrosch, beginning

with 3/e, Longman Anthology of British Literature (Addison Wesley – Longman Publishers, 1998. Seconded., 2002. Third ed., 2006)

Selected Awards and Honors

x National Endowment for the Humanities, Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College andUniversity Teachers, “James Joyce’s Ulyssses: Texts and Contexts,” Dublin, Ireland, June 25-August 3, 2007; June-July, 2012

x Executive Committee, Modern Language Association (MLA), Division on Twentieth-Century English Literature, 2011-2016

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In her last position, Dr. Furlong served as the Executive Director for the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE: http://ncore.occe.ou.edu/), this nation's premier and largest annual conference on race, ethnicity, equity, social justice and more and managed two revenue-generating Centres, namely, the Southwest Centre for Human Relations Studies (SWCHRS) and the National Conference Logistics Center (NCLC) at the University of Oklahoma.

Prior positions served by her are: Assistant to Provost, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Senior Policy, Planning Analyst and Development Officer, the University of Wisconsin System Administration's (UWSA); Executive Director, President's Office for Diversity & Global Initiatives; Research & Policy Analyst; Equity & Diversity Research Analyst and more at UW—Madison and more. She has also served as the Global Diversity Advisor for NAFSA: Association of International Educators; is engaged with the Board of IASAS: International Association of Student Affairs and Services and is the founder of Institutional Globalization Consultants (www.globalize-campus.com).

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Head of Legal and Regulation, Indian Institute for Human Settlements

Amlanjyoti Goswami works on law, policy and governance. He is interested in conceptual questions of urban theory, knowledge epistemologies, legality and its relationships with space, politics and culture. His recent research and teaching work is on the political economy of urban land and land regulation, land acquisition, tenureship, land use and recording frameworks as well as the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern urban and rural development. He is interested in questions of place, interpretative understandings of everyday life (such as legality and spatiality of street vending) as well as how social constructions and imaginations of law in theory and practice could inform such understandings.

Amlan heads Legal and Regulation at IIHS and co-leads the development of the Law and Governance concentration for the proposed IIHS Masters in Urban Practice Program. At IIHS, he oversees the process of building appropriate legal, institutional and regulatory frameworks for key areas in India including urban development, land related issues, decentralization, livelihood issues and higher education.

Amlan holds an LL.B and a B.A. (Hons Sociology) from University of Delhi and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. He has over a decade of international and domestic regulatory, policy, research and legal experience. He has consulted with the World Bank in Washington DC; worked in the Banking and Finance team of India’s largest legal practice Amarchand Mangaldas; and practiced at the Supreme Court of India in the chambers of Harish Salve on constitutional, environmental and contract law. Amlan also worked on legal, regulatory and policy related issues at the National Knowledge Commission set up by the then Prime Minister, on questions pertaining to Higher Education in India.

Vandana Goswami

Srishti School of Art Design and Technology

Vandana Goswami is an academic professional with more than 20 years’

experience as an educator. A medical anthropologist by training, Vandana

uses her anthropological insights across disciplines, especially in the context

of education, pedagogy and design. As an educator, she is passionate about

the need to involve people, both students and others, in thinking

independently, critically and creatively. She has been in involved in teaching

thinking skills, especially critical thinking skills in schools, colleges, universities and in teacher training

programs. As an educational practitioner, she is strives to connect theory and research to everyday

practice.

Vandana has a Doctorate in Anthropology from Michigan State University, as well as two Masters in

Anthropology --- MS from Michigan State University and MA from North Eastern Hill University,

Shillong, India. She has been associated with Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology for more than

a decade.

Yugank Goyal

Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities

Yugank Goyal is Erasmus Mundus PhD Candidate at University of Hamburg (home institution), Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Bologna. Presently, he teaches in Jindal School of Liberal Arts, courses on Mathematics and Economics.

Between 2009 and 2012, he was the Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean (Research & International Collaborations) at Jindal Global Law School, when he taught courses like Economic Analysis of Law, Global Financial Markets, Microeconomics, Economic Analysis of Tort Law, Intellectual Property Rights and Institutional Theory. He was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of his course content and pedagogical innovations he brought in his class.

In his capacity as Assistant Dean of Research and International Collaborations, he was instrumental in developing research architecture of the law school in its formidable years, and spearheaded the initiative on collaborating with world’s leading law schools and think tanks and has worked towards carving out academic ties at on student exchange, faculty exchange, joint teaching and joint research, in addition to carving out collaborative frameworks like double degree programmes and joint conference series.

By being an integral part of university’s outreach and admissions programme, has also addressed more than hundred leading schools, colleges and universities on importance of law and social science education in India. His work on higher education is particularly useful for his involvement in Afghanistan Institution Building Initiative, under the aegis of International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building (IIHEd), at OP Jindal Global University.

Previously, he has worked as a Consultant on development projects with ICICI Bank’s joint venture with West Bengal state government. His work involved consulting on government infrastructure projects in rural parts of India, notably Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa.

Yugank pursued engineering as his first degree, and then studied social sciences (economics and law) in Europe. He has an LL.M. from University of Manchester (in association with University of Hamburg and Erasmus University Rotterdam).

Yugank enjoys interdisciplinary studies and has special interest in institutional economics, public policy, regulation, development studies, higher education and intellectual property rights studies. Having studied engineering, economics and law, his multidisciplinary background helps him connect complex issues through alternative threads. He has traveled widely and spoken in international fora on topics of his interest.

Yudit K. Greenberg George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Professor of Religious Studies Director of Jewish Studies Program Rollins College

Professor Greenberg's fields of teaching and research include modern

and contemporary Jewish thought, women and religion, and cross-

cultural studies of the body. She writes on issues related to language,

love, and the body in religious and philosophical writings. Her latest

projects are Body in Religion: Cross-cultural Perspectives and Hindu and Jewish Philosophy and Religion:

Comparative Perspectives. Greenberg is the author of Better than Wine: Love, Poetry and Prayer in the

Thought of Franz Rosenzweig (Scholars Press), and has written numerous articles in modern and

contemporary Jewish thought in leading journals such as The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy.

She has contributed essays to several books in modern and postmodern Jewish philosophy, and is

presently completing her second book entitled Divine Love and Eros in Jewish Thought. Her Encyclopedia

of Love in World Religions was published in November, 2007.

Greenberg has lectured nationally and internationally, has served as co-chair of the studies of

Judaism section of the American Academy of Religion and is on the editorial board of the Journal of

the American Academy of Religion. A native of Israel, she has been a very active voice and presence in

the religious and spiritual life of the Central Florida community. She has been a visiting scholar at

the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard and, in spring 2001, was a visiting scholar at the Centre for

Jewish Studies at Oxford University, and presently she is a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar affiliated with

JGU.

Fred Hagstrom

Director, Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching

Humphrey Doermann Professor of Liberal Learning

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Carleton College

Fred Hagstrom teaches printmaking, drawing, art and narrative,

and artist's books. After earning his B.A. from Hamline University, he studied with S.W. Hayter at

Atelier 17, Paris. He works in a wide variety of media, with an emphasis on intaglio and woodblock

prints. Examples of his work can be found in the Groveland Gallery, the Minneapolis Institute of

Arts, and the Walker Art Center, and he has exhibited in national and international competitive

exhibitions. He has also received McKnight and Blandin Foundation Fellowships.

Andrew Hay Associate Professor & Assistant Dean Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities Andrew Hay was born in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, and gained his M.A. at the University of Glasgow. Upon graduating, he was awarded the Snell Exhibition for graduate study at Oxford University. Following graduate studies at Balliol College, researching/residence in France and Germany and teaching at Somerville and Worcester colleges at Oxford, he came to JSLH. His areas of interest include nineteenth and twentieth-century Anglo-European literature, critical theory, philosophy and literature, comparative literature, European cinema and theatre studies.

Cynthia Ann Humes

Associate Vice President, CTO, and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College

As Associate Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer, Humes oversees management of all aspects of technology at Claremont McKenna College. Humes has worked to champion innovation in pedagogy locally and nationally, making presentations and writing on the subject of technology and higher education. Humes strives to remain an active contributor to the field of Religious Studies as well; her research revolves around the history of Hinduism with specific interests in models of religious leadership, Hinduism in America, Religion and Politics, goddess worship, and gender. Outside of her work in technology and Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College, Humes is a Planning Commissioner for the city of Claremont, California.

Selected Research and Publications: x “The Ivory Tower and the Cloud. Understanding Cloud Computing,” (Thomson

Reuters/Aspatore: 2010 edition, Inside the Minds series), Cynthia Ann Humes with JeremyWhaley.

x “Staying in the IT Game on Campus. Updating Your Company's Technology Strategy:Leading CTOs and CIOs on Working with the Executive Team,” Managing BudgetConstraints, and Delivering Business Value (Thomson Reuters/Aspatore: 2010 edition,Inside the Minds series.

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x Breaking Boundaries with the Goddess: New Directions in the Study of ĝƗktism. By CynthiaAnn Humes and Rachel Fell McDermott. Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2009.

x Gurus in America. By Thomas Forsthoefel and Cynthia Ann Humes. Albany: SUNY Press,2005.

x Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context. By Bradley R. Hertel and Cynthia AnnHumes. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.

Selected Awards and Affiliations: x South Asian Visual Culture and Expressions of Religious Identity, Social Construction, and

Nation, Mellon Foundation Grantx Fellow, Frye Institutex American Institute of Indian Studies Research Fellowshipx Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowshipx Fulbright-Hays Grant

Rahul Jayaram Assistant Professor Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities

Rahul Jayaram is an Indian journalist whose work has appeared in Global Post, Daily Mail, Gulf News and The Telegraph, Calcutta. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities in India. He was educated in Bombay, New Delhi, Edinburgh and is a recent alumnus of Columbia Journalism School, New York.

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Director and Professor of Strategic Management Indian Institute of Management Indore, India From 1996 to 2013, Professor Krishnan was a member of the faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB), India.

Professor Krishnan was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2008), and at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad (2011-12). He held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMB from 2007-10. Professor Krishnan’s main areas of interest are strategy and innovation. He was listed among the Thinkers50 India most influential thinkers in management from India (2013) and jointly received the special Thinkers50 India Innovation award (2013). Earlier, he received the Dewang Mehta Award for Best Teacher in Strategic Management in 2010.

Professor Krishnan has served on a number of committees set up by the Government of India, Nasscom and CII related to innovation in India. He is on the board of Sundaram Asset Management Company Ltd., and is a trustee of the Foundation for Excellence India Trust (www.ffe.org ), an organization committed to helping economically underprivileged and academically talented students complete their higher education through one of India’s largest scholarship programmes.

Professor Krishnan writes extensively, and has more than 140 publications spanning outlets that include refereed journals, the popular press, case studies, book chapters, and books. His book, “From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India,” published in February 2010 identified the challenges faced by India in enhancing industrial innovation and proposed an agenda to enhance innovation output (see http://jugaadtoinnovation.blogspot.com for details and updates). In his comments on the book jacket, MindTree Chairman Subroto Bagchi wrote: “Rishikesha Krishnan is doubtlessly among India’s foremost chroniclers of the innovation journey. His book is a great account of the history of innovation in the post-industrial era. He has his pulse on issues that hold Indians from going to the next level.”

Professor Krishnan’s recent book, 8 Steps to Innovation: Going from Jugaad to Excellence (co-authored with Vinay Dabholkar, and published by Harper Collins in March 2013), outlines a systematic path for organizations to build innovation capabilities.

Professor Krishnan holds an M.Sc. in Physics (5-year Integrated Programme) from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur; and an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems (now Management Science & Engineering) from Stanford University. He obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, where he won the outstanding thesis proposal award instituted by the Industrial Finance Corporation of India.

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Professor, Claremont McKenna College

Nita Kumar completed her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in History

and has taught at the University of Chicago, Brown University, and

the University of Michigan among other places. She presently holds the

Brown Family Chair of South Asian History at Claremont McKenna College,

Claremont, California. Kumar studied Anthropology alongside History and has been productive in

research and publishing in both fields. She has further moved on to include Women’s and Gender

Studies, Literary Criticism, Education and Performance Studies in her approach.

From 1990, Nita Kumar has been associated with NIRMAN, a non-profit NGO that works

for education and the arts in Varanasi, India. Kumar’s scholarship has included a questioning of the

pursuit of agency and ‘justice’ in history, and the responsibilities of the scholar towards her

subject(s) of study. At NIRMAN, Nita Kumar has taught, written curricula, trained teachers, and

worked on children’s books and arts. She has worked with weavers’ children, working class women,

and village families. These are also subjects she has written the histories and anthropologies of.

Nita Kumar has presented her research on education, democracy, modernity, and children in India

at numerous [laces, and continues to do so.

C. Raj Kumar

Founding Vice Chancellor, O. P. Jindal Global University &

Dean, Jindal Global Law School

Professor C. Raj Kumar was appointed as the Founding Vice Chancellor of O. P. Jindal Global University at the age of 34. Professor Kumar has academic qualifications from the University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Hong Kong, University of Delhi and Loyola College. Professor Kumar spearheaded the initiative to establish the O.P. Jindal Global University and five of its inter-disciplinary schools: Jindal Global Law School; Jindal Global Business School; Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy and the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities in the National Capital Region of Delhi (Sonipat, Haryana). Professor Kumar is also a Member of the National Legal Knowledge Council (NLKC). He was a faculty member at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong, where he taught for many years. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, UK, where he obtained his Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) degree; a Landon Gammon Fellow at the Harvard Law School, USA, where he obtained his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree and a James Souverine Gallo Memorial Scholar at the Harvard University. He was awarded the Doctor of Legal Science (S.J.D.) by the University of Hong Kong. He also obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from the University of Delhi, India; and a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) degree from the Loyola College of the University of Madras, India.

Professor Kumar's areas of specialization include, human rights and development, terrorism and national security, corruption and governance, law and disaster management, comparative constitutional law, legal education and higher education. He has over hundred publications to his credit and has published widely in journals and law reviews in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan and USA, some of which are the American University International Law Review, Asia Pacific Law Review, Australian Journal of Asian Law, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Corporate Governance International, Georgetown Journal of International Law. He has authored and co-edited four books, and has contributed shorter articles in newspapers and magazines published from Hong Kong, India and the UK, which include, South China Morning Post, The Standard, Frontline, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Financial Express, The Tribune, The Pioneer, Seminar, Global-is-Asian and Open Democracy. He has also been interviewed on issues relating to law and justice, human rights and governance, and education by the media in Hong Kong, Japan and India, including radio and television.

Professor Kumar has held consultancy assignments in the field of human rights and governance. He has been a Consultant to the United Nations University (UNU), Tokyo; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); and the International Council for Human Rights Policy (ICHRP), Geneva. He has advised the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) in Sri Lanka and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in India on issues relating to corruption and good governance. Professor Kumar is an Attorney at Law and is admitted to the Bar Council of Delhi, India and the Bar of the State of New York, USA.

Bertil Lindblad

Senior Adviser for International Initiatives

Pomona College

Bertil Lindblad, former director of the UNAIDS New York Office, joined Pomona College as Senior Adviser for International Initiatives on March 1, 2013, bringing more than 30 years of experience in large and complex global organizations focused on international cooperation and development.

Lindblad works with the College’s leadership to coordinate and expand Pomona College’s global connections and international activities through collaborative relationships. Among his duties is working with faculty to establish relationships with international organizations, including non-governmental organizations, United Nations agencies and think tanks; expanding international options for students interested in research, internships and post-baccalaureate opportunities; and facilitating campus visits by international professionals, artists and scholars for meaningful interactions with Pomona students and faculty.

Lindblad, a 1978 graduate of Pomona College, assumed his post as Director of the UNAIDS New York Office in 2008, after serving four years as UNAIDS Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, based in Moscow. There he coordinated the development, implementation, monitoring and reporting of UNAIDS programmes to strengthen UN country team responses to HIV/AIDS in the region. His previous posts with UNAIDS include Deputy Director of the New York Office and Senior Liaison Officer. He also coordinated the first ever General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in 2001.

Prior to joining UNAIDS, Lindblad served as Senior Advisor/Child Protection at UNICEF headquarters in New York, providing policy and program guidance in the area of child protection and child rights. He led the development of a new UNICEF policy on child protection, with the Convention on the Rights of the Child as the framework, adopted by the Executive Board in 1996, and served as the organization’s spokesperson on these issues with media and donors. From 1984 to 1994, he held senior positions with Swedish Save the Children, including Asia Coordinator and Country Representative in Vietnam. His international career began in Moscow, where he served in the Commercial Section of the Swedish Embassy from 1980-82.

At Pomona College, Lindblad majored in government, with substantial course work in French and Russian. He also holds a certificate in International Relations from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and a certificate in French from the Sorbonne.

Neil Lutsky

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology Carleton College, Visiting Professor of Psychology, Ashoka University.

Neil Lutsky, (Ph.D., Harvard University) teaches courses in social psychology, social cognition, personality, general psychology, positive psychology, and quantitative reasoning. He is a former president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2 of the American Psychological Association) and the 2001 recipient of the Walter D. Mink Undergraduate Teaching Award given by the Minnesota Psychological Association and the 2011 of the Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award given by the American Psychological Foundation. He directed a 2004-2008 Department of Education FIPSE grant to Carleton on “Quantitative Inquire, Reasoning, and Knowledge,” and has served on the Board of Directors of the National Numeracy Network. His professional interests include the teaching of psychology, quantitative reasoning, the social psychology of obedience to authority, psychology and the Holocaust, and the study of therapy, relationship, and other life endings.

Bennett McClellan

Professor and Vice Dean Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities

Dr. Bennett E. McClellan is Professor and Vice Dean (Admissions, Outreach and Institution Building) for JSLH. He worked in India and the US, teaching business strategy at California State Polytechnic University Pomona, St. Georges University Grenada, and Sunstone Business School, Noida.

Dr. McClellan comes to JSLH as a world citizen and an intellectual contributor. He has worked as an author, business consultant, corporate executive, entrepreneur, executive coach, general manager, playwright, theatre director, television producer and raw food chef. Dr. McClellan epitomizes the life of an applied liberal artist and global citizen. Dr. McClellan received his Ph.D. in Management from the Claremont Graduate University’s Peter F. Drucker-Masatoshi Ito School of Management. Dr. McClellan received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of California Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television. He created and produced the award winning student situation comedy, Good News Bad News supervised by former Directors Guild president and Emmy award television director, George Schaefer. In addition to academic honors, Dr. McClellan earned the distinction of Outstanding Graduate Student awarded by the UCLA Alumni Association for his work in theater, film and television. He is a member of the American Television Academy and the Writer’s Guild of America. In addition, Dr. McClellan served for three years as the General Manager of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, parent company to the world-class Los Angeles Philharmonic and operators of the Hollywood Bowl. Dr. McClellan earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981, with High Distinction (Baker Scholar). Continuing the theme of applying a liberal arts philosophy to the practice of business, Dr. McClellan served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harbus News during his tenure at HBS. He then joined the management consultancy of McKinsey & Co. During his six years at McKinsey & Co., Dr. McClellan focused on the entertainment and media sector, with assignments across multiple industries. His global experience included resident assignments in the UK and Asia. Dr. McClellan returned to the management consulting profession from 1997 to 2002 as Managing Director for Strategy with Pricewaterhouse Cooper’s media and entertainment group. He is the co-author of PwC’s publications, The Future of Media & Entertainment (1999) and Vying for Attention (2000). Dr. McClellan earned his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego in biology/biochemistry. He graduated with High Honors and was the recipient of the UC President’s Undergraduate Fellowship to found and direct the UCSD Children’s Theatre. While an undergraduate, Dr. McClellan also became a professional working actor and director. Upon graduation, he joined the production staff of the Old Globe Theatre, a leading U.S. regional theatre in San Diego. Dr. McClellan established the Old Globe’s educational touring program. As a member of Actors Equity, Dr. McClellan worked as an actor and stage manager, and later founded another touring company to bring the classics to school children in Southern California.

Susan Jaret McKinstry

Helen F. Lewis Professor of English Carleton College Susan Jaret McKinstry teaches courses on Jane Austen, the Victorian novel, Victorian poetry and painting, narrative theory, literary theory, and creative writing.

Director and co-director of Carleton College's interdisciplinary initiative "Visualizing the Liberal Arts" (funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2009-2012), Susan was named a Fulbright Scholar in Communications (Media Studies and Journalism) in 2014, and she works at the intersection of Visual Studies, Victorian Studies, and Digital Humanities.

Her current research explores poetry and painting, book illustration, and the book as object in the work of the Pre-Raphaelites. Degrees: Miami (Ohio), B.A., M.A.; Michigan, Ph.D.

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Shyam Menon has been a Professor at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi since 1994. He had been Dean, Faculty of Education and the Proctor of the University of Delhi. He had earlier been Director, School of Education, Indira Gandhi National Open University and a Professor at the Central Institute of Educational Technology, NCERT. He had also taught at the M.S. University of Baroda for several years.

Professor Menon studied at the University of Kerala, and at the M.S. University of Baroda. He was later at the University of Wisconsin, Madison as a Fulbright Fellow. His doctoral work was in the area of Curriculum and Cognition, and his postdoctoral research was in Higher Education. Much of his work has been in Curriculum Studies, Higher Education and Teacher Education. He edited the journal, Perspectives in Education, for many years. He is at present on the international advisory board of Comparative Education, Teaching Education and Asia Pacific Journal of Education. He is currently on the Task Force on Access and Equity in Higher Education constituted by the International Association of Universities.

Professor Menon has been with the Ambedkar University, Delhi since August 2008 as its first Vice Chancellor.

Kathleen Modrowski

Professor & Dean

Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities Modrowski is a distinguished American educator, education administrator and scholar. Born in Toledo, Ohio, began her university studies in the United States, at the University of Toledo, Ohio where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double graduate studies in France at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS - School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), a leading French research and degree-granting institution. She was awarded the Diplôme d’Etudes de l’EHESS, an advanced degree equivalent to a Master of Arts, in the ethnology of the Arab world.

Ms. Modrowski pursued her graduate studies further with a focus on anthropology film making at the Musée de L’Homme in Paris under the guidance of Jean Rouch, one of the founders of cinéma verité in France and at the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For four years, Ms Modrowski was a member of the research laboratory Geste et Image (Gestures and Images) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), where she undertook numerous field research projects in visual anthropology, including social aspects of market behaviour in Italy and Tunisia, the public participation and in religious festivals in the Mediterranean countries, gendered spaces in households, and construction of café society in France. Ms. Modrowski worked as a consultant at the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), at its Paris headquarters for many years. Her study focused on the right to health and traditional medicine and resulted in a report on the integration and normalization of traditional medical practices within the national health policy. For the past twenty-five years, Ms. Modrowski has built up the global studies and experiential learning programmes of the Global College of Long Island University (LIU), New York, where she has held positions of North American Centre Director, Global Studies Director, Director of Global and Experiential Education, Acting Dean and Assistant Dean. As an educational administrator at LIU, Ms. Modrowski served as Chair of the Experiential Education Committee, which created norms and standards courses based on experiential learning and developed a curriculum, which integrates service learning into diverse academic domains. She also was a member of the CORE program committee, which had oversight of undergraduate academic standards. She is currently Global College liaison to the Outcomes Assessment Committee and the Assessment and E-Portfolio Taskforce. She is also the Convener of the LIU Global Academic Council. Since 1994, Ms. Modrowski has worked to promote human rights education with the Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights Learning (PDHRE), as a member of the Board of Directors and Director of the Education Program Committee. In that capacity, she helped build Human Rights Cities in Kenya, Mali and India. She co-authored a book on this experience. She is also a founding board member of the Herstory Writers Workshop. The organization offers women the opportunity to create literary works based on their individual voices and experiences leading to societal change. Ms. Modrowski’ s other recent activities include participation as a civil society Constitutional Consultant on the Ghanaian National Constitutional Committee Human Rights Section and a consultant in the pilot program for urban revitalization based on human rights learning.

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Assistant Professor of Art, Painting Pomona College Mukherjee’s teaching is predicated on the belief that combining complex personal experiences with a strong foundation in formal issues, intellectual rigor and creative freedom is essential to make compelling objects. Having lived an intensely cross-cultural and porous existence, he is continuously making aesthetic and intellectual translations between cultures and seemingly disparate systems. His interests lie in a range of disciplines of art and science – from 11th century Islamic art, Baroque painting and Hindu temple sculpture to minimalism, cosmology and physics – informs his teaching. In turn, he encourages his students to explore their various interests and pursue unexpected paths of inquiry as a means to developing their individual voices

He is currently making drawings, installations and abstract paintings in which the tension between pictorial and sculptural space not only underscores the viewer’s physical presence but also activates the entire space in which both the artwork and viewer exist. From the earlier self-portraits to the more recent abstractions, his interest remains in making the hybrid object — part painting, part drawing, part sculpture and part environment. Much like grafting things together to create hybrid varieties. Entities in which certain kinds of expectations break down and new ones emerge; places where one kind of logic disappears and another one is established or suggested

Arjendu K. Pattanayak

Professor, Carleton College

Arjendu Pattanayak is Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Carleton College. He was formerly Associate Dean of the College, where his primary responsibility was management of the curriculum; other pieces of his portfolio included supervising Carleton’s Off-Campus Studies program. He is particularly pleased to have helped create the partnership between Ashoka University (India) and Carleton College.

He started at Carleton in 2001, coming there from a visiting position at Rice University. He has taught across the spectrum of courses within the major, but also in several ‘liberal arts’ courses such as first-year seminars on chaos and complexity and on the future of energy, a 'physics for poets' class, and – outside the physics Department -- a first-year seminar in Cross- Cultural Studies.

Professor Pattanayak’s research has mostly been on problems in theoretical and computational non-linear dynamics, more broadly statistical physics. While most of this work is fairly abstract, some includes collaboration with experimentalists in atomic physics; other work has predictions about the behavior of fluid dynamical systems. He is particularly interested in the transition from quantum to classical behavior for non-linear systems, specifically including consideration of the impact of environmental noise or decoherence. He works extensively with undergraduate researchers.

As of his recent sabbatical in 2013-2014 he is learning as much as he can about the physics of energy, focusing on renewable/non-fossil fuel issues particularly those of concern to the developing world. He has taught a course on these issues at Ashoka University’s Young India Fellowship Programme

Research Interests - Open nonlinear quantum systems; entropy, information and decoherence; stochastic processes; atomic physics; complex systems. Renewable energy.

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Bryan Edward Penprase

Professor, Pomona College

Dr. Bryan Penprase is the Frank P. Brackett Professor of Astronomy at Pomona College. He joined Pomona’s faculty in 1993, and served as Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department from 2007 until 2011. During academic year 2012-2013, Bryan was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow based at Yale University during 2012-13, working with the Yale President-elect Peter Salovey, to foster innovative curriculum and science teaching at Yale and the new Yale/NUS College, and to help improve the diversity and retention of students in STEM fields. While at Yale, Bryan has helped lead the development of the Yale-NUS curriculum as a member of the inaugural curriculum committee and a co-author of the report on Yale-NUS College entitled “Yale-NUS College – A New Community of Learning.” He also served on the Yale Summer Bridge Program Advisory Committee, has consulted with the Yale Provost’s office on topics such as online learning and science at Yale, and has been working with the Yale Internationalization Office to strengthen ties with Indian institutions, as well as co-organizing a conference with Yale and the Raman Research Institute (RRI) on “The Future of Liberal Arts in India” at the RRI Bangalore campus in January 2014.

Bryan received both a BS in Physics and an MS in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1985, and a PhD from the University of Chicago in Astronomy and Astrophysics in 1992. Before coming to Pomona, he was an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, and a pre-doctorial fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute, in Baltimore, MD. Bryan’s research includes nearly all aspects of observational astrophysics, from photometric observations of nearby asteroids to spectroscopic studies of element formation in the Early Universe, using telescopes ranging from the Pomona College 1-meter telescope to the Keck Telescope in Hawaii. He is the author of “The Power of Stars – How Celestial Observations Have Shaped Civilization,” published by Springer, Inc., and hasauthored or co-authored 47 peer-reviewed articles, most recently in the Astrophysical Journal and the Astronomical Journal, but also in Nature and Science.

Bryan’s scholarship has been recognized by awards of visiting fellowships at Downing College, Cambridge, at Harvard/SAO, the Raman Research Institute (Bangalore, India), an ASEE faculty fellowship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and most recently with an appointment as a Visiting Associate at Caltech. His faculty leadership positions at Pomona College have included service as the head of the Physics and Astronomy Department (2007-2011), the Teaching and Learning Committee (Chair, 2006-2007), and as member of the Public Events Committee, the Faculty Grievance Committee, the Faculty Position Planning Committee, and the Curriculum Committee (for two terms). He has served on numerous NSF and NASA review panels, and the Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee.

Steven Poskanzer

President Carleton College

Steven G. Poskanzer became Carleton’s 11th president in August, 2010. A scholar of higher education law, Poskanzer’s research focuses on issues of academic freedom and how colleges and universities seek to achieve educational goals in a complex legal and policy environment. At each institution where he has worked, Poskanzer has also made a point of teaching students in the classroom.

Before coming to Carleton, Poskanzer held senior administrative and academic positions at both private and public universities. This breadth of experience makes him somewhat unusual among college presidents.

President Poskanzer received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1980 and a law degree from Harvard University in 1983. After practicing law briefly in Washington, D.C., his entire career has been spent in higher education. He first worked in the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Pennsylvania, becoming the University's Associate General Counsel. He then spent a year as an American Council on Education Fellow back at Princeton, working as an assistant to the University’s Provost. In 1993, Poskanzer moved to the University of Chicago, where he served as Executive Assistant to the President and, among other duties, was responsible for the University’s Public Affairs department and for policy planning for the Board of Trustees.

In 1997, Poskanzer shifted from private to public higher education, joining the State University of New York (SUNY). Initially based in Albany at SUNY’s System Administration, he quickly rose to the position of Vice Provost for the 64-campus System and headed the Office of Academic Affairs. From 2001-2010, Poskanzer served as President of SUNY New Paltz. His time in New Paltz was marked by a visible transformation in the College’s selectivity, retention, and graduation rate of students; the level of resources devoted to hiring full time faculty; and an unprecedented set of the physical improvement to the campus (including the acquisition of a 40-acre land bank for future campus growth). As a result of these enhancements to academic quality, New Paltz was acclaimed the “Hottest Small State School” in the nation by Newsweek magazine.

As President of Carleton, Poskanzer devised and led a comprehensive strategic planning process that brought together faculty, students, staff, alumni, and parents to chart the College’s course for the coming decade. This plan, Carleton’s Future, is now being implemented. The last few years at Carleton have been marked by a dramatic increase in the number of applications, along with continued success in faculty recruitment.

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Professor Department of Education Shiv Nadar University Maya Krishna Rao, theatre artist and teacher from New Delhi and a Diploma holder of Drama in Education, Trinity College, (2012), was appointed professor in the School of the Arts, Shiv Nadar University in April this year. Maya has been asked to set up the department of 'Arts, Education and Society'. She is currently designing an M.A. program in Theatre /Education/ Social Transformation that will be on offer from August 2014. Candidates from all countries are welcome to apply. Maya has created solo performances that have travelled all over the world and also taught Acting in the National School of Drama, Delhi. She is a recipient of The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award - a state award given to artists by the government of India. Maya's latest performance, The Walk, created in response to the horrific gang rape in a Delhi bus in Dec. 2012. The performance has played widely in schools, colleges, on the street, in malls, at protest meetings and at literary and theatre festivals. It has been received with acclaim on social network sites. For more visit Maya's blog: mayakrishnarao.blogspot.com

Somak Raychaudhury

Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Professor and Head of Physics, Presidency University, Kolkata

Somak Raychaudhury obtained his BA in Physics at the

University of Oxford in 1986, and a PhD in Astrophysics from

the University of Cambridge in 1990, where he continued his

research on superclusters of galaxies as a research fellow at the

Institute of Astronomy and a fellow of St Edmund's College.

In 1991, he moved to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) as a Smithsonian

fellow, working on near-infrared Astronomy. In 1993, he became a staff member of the Chandra

Science Center at the CfA, working on X-ray Astronomy. During this period, he taught in the Core

programme at Harvard University, and was a tutor at Lowell House. In 1995, he spent a year at the

University of Cambridge as a Senior visiting Fellow, after which he joined the Inter-University

Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics as an Assistant Professor. He moved to the School of

Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham in 2000, where he was the director of the

University Observatory, and was in charge of their extensive outreach programme.

Dr. Raychaudhury moved to Presidency University in Kolkata, India, in 2012.

Dr. Raychaudhury’s research involves the study of the evolution of galaxies in groups and clusters,

and on the supercluster filaments of the cosmic web. He has used optical, X-ray, radio, infrared and

ultraviolet observations, from the ground and from Space, to understand how the transformations

of galaxies are related to their local and global environment. He is also involved in developing

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Srinivas began his musical training as a guitarist and composer. In 1998 he graduated from Brown University with a BA in South Asian Studies and completed his senior project entitled NaadaSat, a multi-instrumental ensemble piece that reflected his growing interest in South Asian philosophy and music.

After moving to San Francisco in 1998, Srinivas met his guru and mentor Sri Partha Chatterjee, a direct disciple of the late sitar maestro Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. Since then Srinivas has dedicated himself to Indian classical music and rigorously trained with his teacher in the traditional guru-shishya style. Srinivas is a professional concert sitarist and has given numerous recitals in the US and India. He has three albums to his credit: GITA (1999), Sitar & Tabla (2001) and Hemant & Jog (2008).

In 2011 Srinivas graduated from UC Berkeley with a PhD in South and Southeast Asian Studies. Under the guidance of Professor George Hart he studied Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu literary traditions and completed his thesis on the Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadevaraya and his grand Telugu epic Amuktamalyada. A translation of the work entitled Giver of the Worn Garland was published by Penguin Books in 2010. His latest publication, a translation of Kalidasa’s first play Malavikagnimitram was released in 2014 and he is currently working on a fresh verse translation of Kalidasa’s Meghadutam for the same publisher.

Srinivas is currently Assistant Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies at IIT Gandhinagar. He spends his time performing, teaching and conducting research in the US, Portugal and India.

Cary Reid

Team Leader - Project Based Diploma Mahindra United World College of India

Cary Omar Delano Reid attended UWC Atlantic College from 1997 to 99 and is also a former member of the UWC Jamaica National Committee. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Cary has a BSc in International Relations and Political Science from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica and an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the European Peace University, Austria. Cary has been an educator for several years. He was as a Lecturer and Head of International Studies and International Exchange Department at the Ebino Kogen International College and Mary Hardin Baylor University in Japan. Prior to that, he taught English and was also responsible for curriculum design & coordinating the International Exchange programme at Takaharu Town Board of Education in Japan. For a brief period, he joined University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston in Jamaica as a Tutor and Assistant Lecturer. Recently, he worked as an International Protection Officer in South Sudan. Currently, Cary is the team leader responsible for developing and implementing the Project Based Diploma at UWC Mahindra College. At the college, he also facilitates the PNC (Peoples, Nations and Cultures) course and coordinates the Peace and Justice Triveni Stream.

Pelham Lindfield Roberts

Head Mahindra United World College, India

Mr Pelham Lindfield Roberts has over 20 years of

experience in international education, including UWC

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Gopa Sabharwal

Vice Chancellor Nalanda University

Gopa Sabharwal is a sociologist by training and her research engages with ethnicity, identity and social history. Her work reflects a continuing concern with and exploration of diverse aspects of social life and its multiple contexts. She obtained a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Delhi for her research on ethnic groups and ethnicity in Belgaum in Karnataka State. Dr. Sabharwal has had a long and illustrious career at Delhi University. She founded the Department of Sociology at India’s best Arts college, the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, very early in her career in 1993. In 18 years she successfully transformed this Department into one of the best in the country with a field-work component unrivalled by any institution and regular student exchange with students from as far as Australia, the United States, Singapore and even Japan. Dr. Sabharwal is a pioneer in knowledge creation and dissemination and has successfully merged her several interests – in sociology, in social anthropology, in social history, in film, in media and television – to take forward the educational process. She was hand-picked by the Nalanda Mentor Group and its Chairperson Professor Amartya Sen, to spearhead the task of establishing the prestigious Nalanda University. She is arguably one of India’s younger Vice Chancellors and has zest, an energy and enormous creative ability to transform the vision of Nalanda into the reality of Nalanda University as a centre of world-wide excellence. Gopa Sabharwal has a wide range of publications, including: �,QGLD�VLQFH�������7KH�,QGHSHQGHQW�<HDUV��1HZ�'HOKL��3HQJXLQ�,QGLD���������� �(WKQLFLW\�DQG�&ODVV��6RFLDO�'LIIHUHQWLDWLRQ�LQ�DQ�,QGLDQ�&LW\��'HOKL��2[IRUG�8QLYHUVLW\�3UHVV���������� �7KH�,QGLDQ�0LOOHQQLXP��$�'�������WR�$�'���������'HOKL��3HQJXLQ�,QGLD���������1RZ�LQ�LWV��UG�HGLWLRQ��� She is currently engaged in collaborative research on two key works, entitled “From Noakhali to 1HZ�'HOKL��*DQGKL������-��µ�DQG�´,QGLD�������/LYHV�/LYHGµ��ERWK�FRPPLVVLRQHG�E\�3HQJXLQ�Books, New Delhi, India.

Lakshmi Saripalli

Raman Research Institute

Dr Lakshmi Saripalli is presently Raman Trust Fellow at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore. She has an MSc in Applied Physics and received her PhD in 1989 in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the Indian Institute of Science. For her PhD thesis she was awarded the Martin Forster gold medal in the division of Physical and Mathematical sciences. She is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt post- doctoral fellowship in 1992 when she carried out research at the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institut for Radio Astronomie. She has held academic and faculty positions in various research organizations including the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (Bangalore), CSIRO-ATNF in Australia and is presently a faculty at the Raman Research Institute (Bangalore).

Her research focuses on radio galaxies and quasars. Her particular research interests are in the formation and subsequent evolution of radio emitting structures associated with active galaxies, lifecycles of these galaxies and interaction of these – regions of magnetized plasma – with the intergalactic medium. More specifically, her research has focused on the largest of radio galaxies, the so-called giant radio galaxies that have linear extents larger than two million light years.

She uses a variety of radio and optical telescopes for her work and has active collaborations with astronomers in India, Australia, Italy and the US. She has supervised three PhD students and has employed several summer project students. She has taught graduate Astrophysics courses in the Joint Astronomy Program at the Indian Institute of Science and undergraduate honours courses at University of Queensland and University of Western Australia. Recently she was awarded the Helena Kluyver fellowship for women scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.

Since 2007 she has been the Managing Editor of the international Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science. She has initiated India’s participation at the Professor Harry Messel International Science School for talented high school students held every two years at the University of Sydney. She manages selection of five students from all across India, conducting tests and interviews.

Her active interest in environmental issues saw her take up research in renewable energies in Australia, in particular wind energy. For a period of four years she engaged in study and research in environmental matters including – for a brief period, research on wind energy prospects in Australia at Monash University, besides organizing discussion meetings and giving public talks on the subject in India.

She actively collaborates with several NGOs that work in the area of empowerment of marginalized communities, environmental concerns and civic issues. She is deeply involved both formally and informally in education-related issues, both at school as well as undergraduate level and related to both urban as well as rural poor.

Malabika Sarkar

Vice Chancellor Presidency University, Kolkata

Malabika Sarkar , until May 2014, Vice Chancellor of Presidency University, Kolkata and a professor of English Literature, (specializing in John Milton) with a special interest in the History of Science. Her recent book Cosmos and Character in Paradise Lost was published by Palgrave Macmillan in June 2012.

An alumna of Presidency College (then under the University of Calcutta), where she was a student of English Literature, she went on to complete her B.A. and M.A. from New Hall, Cambridge University. Later a graduate student at Clare Hall, she returned to Clare Hall, Cambridge University, as Visiting Fellow in 2002-2003 and in 2003 was elected to a Life Membership. She is a Fellow of the English Association (FEA), U.K..

Sarkar was earlier Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Head of the Department of English from 1999-2001, a member of the Jadavpur University Council from 1980-1985, and member of various academic bodies of the University. She was also a member of the University Grants Commission Panel of Experts in English and Foreign Languages and a panel member of NAAC.

Professor Sarkar has presented her work at several conferences in the U.K. and North America. She combines her interest in Milton and the Renaissance with another area of interest, Romantic Studies. She is the founder President of Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature and continues to direct its international conferences. Her publications in this area include Moneta’s Veil: Essays on 19th Century Literature (Pearson-Longman, 2010). She is on the international advisory board of the journal European Romantic Review published by Routledge. Her many publications include her article on “The Magic of Shakespeare’s Sonnets”, first published in Renaissance Studies (U.K., 1998), which was reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism Yearbook 1998 (Gale Group, USA).

Professor Malabika Sarkar is now a member of the Presidency University Governing Board. She is also President of the Women's Coordinating Council (WCC), West Bengal, the apex women's organization in the state with representatives from more than 74 social welfare organizations.

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Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilization & Faculty Director University of Chicago Center, New Delhi

Tubb has served as the chair of South Asian Languages and Civilizations as well as its director of Graduate Studies, and as the chair of the Indian Ministry of Culture Vivekananda Visiting Professor search committee. He earned a PhD in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University (1979) and previously taught at Harvard University, where he was chair of Sanskrit and Indian Studies and editor of the Harvard Oriental Series. He also was taught at Brown University, Vassar College and Columbia University before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 2007.

A leading Sanskrit scholar, Tubb examines the tradition’s poetics, grammatical forms and commentarial traditions and draws insights across the culture’s philosophy, religion and literature. Speaking Sanskrit, German, Hindi and Urdu and familiar with Marathi, French, Latin, Spanish and Prakrit, Tubb is the author of Scholastic Sanskrit: A Handbook for Students. He is an editor and primary contributor in the book Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a History of Sanskrit Kavya Literature (Oxford University Press, Delhi). Another book, On Poets and Pots: Essays on Sanskrit Poetry, Poetics, and Philosophy, is also forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He has held visiting appointments as a scholar-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University and has been recognized as a Research Fellow of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies.

Shiv Visvanathan

Professor Executive Director, Centre for the Study of Science, Society and Sustainability Jindal School of Government and Public Policy

A social anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Delhi University, Shiv Visvanathan taught at the Delhi school of Economics, was senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Professor at the DAIICT, Gandhinagar.

Shiv has been visiting professor at the University of Maastricht, Holland, SAARCHI Distinguished fellow at the University of South Africa, Visiting professor at Stanford University, Henry Luce Professor at Smith College, Massachusetts, Visiting professor at Goldsmiths College, London, and visiting professor at the Centre for science policy at Arizona State University.

Professor Visvanathan is the author of Organising for Science (OUP 1984), A Carnival for Science (OUP 1997) and coedited Foul Play: Chronicles of corruption1947-1997 with Harsh Sethi (Banyan books, 1997).

He also writes as a columnist for the Hindu, Asian Age, the Tribune, for Rediff.com. His interests include science studies and knowledge systems, semiotics, human rights. He is currently researching on violence and corruption.