Martin Fromm

Courses: Modern China on the Move, Modern China Within Contesting Empires

B.A., Brown University. M.A., Stanford University. M.Phil., Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University. Special interest in Chinese diasporas and social and cultural history of modern China. Dissertation on the collision between Chinese migration and contesting forces of empire in Manchuria during the early twentieth century. SLC, 2007-

Ellen Neskar

on leave second semester

Courses: Chinese Literature: The Short Story

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B.Sc., University of Toronto. M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Special interest in the social and cultural history of medieval China, with emphasis on the intersection of politics and religion; author of the forthcoming Politics and Prayer: Shrines to Local Worthies in Sung China;member, Association of Asian Studies; recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies grant. SLC, 2001-

Shanti Pillai

Courses: Global Theatre: China, Japan, and India, Performance Practices of Global Youth Cultures

B.A., Stanford University. M.A., University of California-Berkeley. Ph.D., New York University. Special interests include the performance practices of Asia and Latin America, globalization and culture, Western perceptions of India and practice of Indian “spirituality,” and performance theory; visiting professor at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales in Ecuador, 1997-99; director of the South India Term Abroad (SITA) Program, 2003; recipient of American Institute of Indian Studies fellowship for dissertation research; Bhara-tanatyam performer and teacher; resident director of SLC in Cuba, 2006. SLC, 2003-

Sandra Robinson

Courses: Orientalism, First-Year Studies: Cultures and Arts of India, Body and Self in Asian Cultures, Yoga and Ayurveda

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B.A., Wellesley College. Ph.D., University of Chicago. Special interest in South Asian cultures, religions, and literatures. Two Fulbright Awards for field research in India. Articles, papers, and poems appear in international venues. Ethnographic photographs exhibited. Chair of the South Asia Council and member of the Board of Directors, Association for Asian Studies. Administrative board of Harvard-Radcliffe College. Senior fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University. Delegate to Copenhagen U.N. summit on global poverty. Group leader for the Experiment in International Living. National selection boards for institutional Fulbright grants. SLC, 1990-.