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Affiliated Faculty: South Asia

Shankha Chakraborty

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Department Head
  • Phone: 541-346-4678
  • Office: 537 PLC
  • Office Hours: W24: By appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies
  • Interests: economic growth and development, macroeconomics
  • Website: Website

Sangita Gopal

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  • Affiliation: faculty, student
  • Title: Associate Professor of English
  • Phone: 541-346-5524
  • Office: 103 PLC
  • Affiliated Departments: English
  • Interests: Postcolonial Theory and Literature, South Asian Visual and Cultural Studies

Lamia Karim

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor & Department Head
  • Phone: 541-346-5095
  • Office: 375 Condon Hall
  • City: EUGENE
  • Office Hours: Wed from 2-3 PM and by appointment and Zoom
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Advising and Student Experience, Applied Voice, Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral
  • Interests: women, work, neoliberalism, state, and Islam
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/notifications/?filter=all

David Meek

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5128
  • Office: Virtual
  • Office Hours: Not on campus Fall 22; available for virtual meetings; please contact at dmeek@uoregon.edu
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Clark Honors College
  • Teaching Level: Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Political ecology, social movements, popular education, food sovereignty

Eric Pederson

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  • Affiliation: retired
  • Title: Associate Professor, Retired
  • Phone: 541-346-3900
  • Office: 375 Straub Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: American English Institute, Asian Studies
  • Interests: Semantic typology, gesture, psycholinguistics, Dravidian linguistics

Bish Sen

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-2880
  • Office: 311C Allen Hall
  • City: Eugene
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Cinema Studies Program, Clark Honors College

Arafaat A. Valiani

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Graduate Faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies and Global Health
  • Phone: 541-346-5763
  • Office: 301 McKenzie Hall
  • Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00pm-3:00pm, Wednesdays 10:30am-noon PDT, and by appt.
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Clark Honors College
  • Programs, Research and Outreach: Wayne Morse Center
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Twitter: Twitter
  • Website: Website

Lesley Jo Weaver

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor; Program Head
  • Phone: 541-346-5089
  • Office: Friendly 312
  • Office Hours: Spring 2024: by appintment. Make an appointment at https://calendly.com/ljweaver/dr-weaver-office-hours.
  • Affiliated Departments: Anthropology, Black Studies, Global Health Program
  • Interests: medical anthropology; mental health; race; chronic diseases; food insecurity; health disparities; Brazil; India; USA; global health
  • Research Website: Research
  • Website: Website

Anita Weiss

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3245
  • Office: 307 PLC
  • Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-3 pm & by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, PPPM, Religious Studies, Sociology
  • Interests: Pakistan: development, women's rights, political Islam
  • Research Website: Research
  • Website: Website