Primary Landing Page
Director

Associate Professor
Muhammad Kavesh
Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow
Ethics
Multispecies Ethnography
Decolonization
Board Members

Dr
Aditya Balasubramanian
Senior Lecturer in History


Prof
Bina D’Costa
Professor in International Relations
International Relations
Human Rights
Refugee and Forced migration studies

Dr
David Brewster
Senior Research Fellow
South Asia security
Indian Ocean security
Maritime security


Professor
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy
South Asia
Natural Resource Management
Development

Professor
McComas Taylor
Professor, Reader in Sanskrit
LANGUAGE STUDIES
Indian Literature
Epistemology

Associate Professor
Meera Ashar
India
Asian History
Asian and Global History

Dr
Moeen Cheema
Associate Professor, ANU College of Law
Pakistan Constitutional Law
comparative constitutionalism
Law and Society

Associate Professor
Shameem Black
Associate Professor
LITERARY STUDIES
Gender Studies
Asian Cultural Studies

Associate Professor
Tanya Jakimow
Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow
community development
Gender and Politics
Livelihoods

Members

Mr
A S M Sajjad Hossain
PhD Candidate


Dr
Adam Sargent
Lecturer, School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Semiotic Anthropology
Anthropology of Labour
Infrastructure

Ms
Aditi Dubey
PhD Candidate

Dr
Aditya Balasubramanian
Senior Lecturer in History

Mr
Ananda Devkota
PhD Candidate
Climate Change
South Asia
Environmental and Socio-economic Vulnerability

Andrew Kennedy
Associate Professor
Chinese Politics
Chinese foreign and security policy
US-China competition

Dr
Annabel Dulhunty
Lecturer


Ms
Aryana Mohmood
Producer, Journalist and PhD scholar
History of International Relations
Peace and Conflict Studies
Gender Studies



Ms
Ayesha Masood Chaudhry
PhD candidate in Anthropology (CAP)
Culture, Gender, Sexuality
Marriage
Pakistan

Mr
Binota Moy Dhamai
ARC Research Fellow
Indigenous Peoples related to politics, human rights, global governance, treaties and agreements, autonomy and self-determination.



Dr
Christopher L. Diamond
Lecturer in Hindi
Asian Cultural Studies
Indian Languages
Indian Literature

Dr
Danish Ahmad
Lecturer in Population Health and Social Science ANU College of Health and Medicine
PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES
community development
global health

Dr
David Brewster
Senior Research Fellow
South Asia security
Indian Ocean security
Maritime security

Ms
Dipika Adhikari
PhD researcher
Natural Resource Management
political ecology
Environmental justice



Mr
Geoffrey Piggott
PhD Candidate,



Ms
Hatizah Rashid
Project Officer, Partnerships and Engagement
Pakistan
South Asia
Religion and Society


Professor
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy
South Asia
Natural Resource Management
Development

Ms
Maimuna Ashraf
PhD scholar
Pakistan
International Relations, International Security Studies
Nuclear Non-Proliferation

Ms
Maksuda Khanam
PhD student



Ms
Mashrufah Khatun
PhD candidate
Gender Studies
Agricultural Economics
Agricultural policy and food security

Mr
Matt Schissler
Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU
Southeast Asia
Myanmar
Genocide

Dr
Matt Withers
Senior Lecturer
Labour, Migration And Development
Political economy
Social reproduction

Professor
McComas Taylor
Professor, Reader in Sanskrit
LANGUAGE STUDIES
Indian Literature
Epistemology

Associate Professor
Meera Ashar
India
Asian History
Asian and Global History

Dr
Moeen Cheema
Associate Professor, ANU College of Law
Pakistan Constitutional Law
comparative constitutionalism
Law and Society

Mr
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad
PhD Student, Australian National University
Man and Masculinities
Refugee and Forced migration studies

Associate Professor
Muhammad Kavesh
Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow
Ethics
Multispecies Ethnography
Decolonization

Ms
Nadine Vanniasinkam
PhD Scholar


Ms
Pranjali Das
PhD Candidate
philanthropy
Corporate social responsibility
Anthropology of Development



Ms
Remeen Firoz
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, CHL-ANU
Climate Change
Munda Indigenous Community
Sundarban Mangrove Ecosystem




Associate Professor
Shameem Black
Associate Professor
LITERARY STUDIES
Gender Studies
Asian Cultural Studies


Mr
Sherajul Mustajib Sharif
PhD Candidate

Ms
Shireen Hafesjee
PhD Candidate
Australian Literature
LITERARY STUDIES
Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross Cultural Studies


Dr
Stephanie Majcher
Lecturer in Sanskrit
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit, Pre-modern India, innovation in teaching
Vedic Studies

Dr
Stuti Bhatnagar
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
International Relations
Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
South Asia

Mr
Subrata Banarjee
PhD Candidate
Gender-based violence, Criminology and social sciences, Terrorism and Violence

Associate Professor
Tanya Jakimow
Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow
community development
Gender and Politics
Livelihoods


AsPr
Tomoko Akami
Associate Professor
Asian and Global History
History of International Relations
Political and diplomatic history of Japan



Ms
Wasia Arshad
PhD Candidate
Medical anthropology
Traditional medicine
Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Affiliates

Dr.
Afroz Ahmad Shah
Sr. Assistant Professor of Structural Geology
Earthquake and tsunami hazard and risk
Landslide hazards
Flood hazards

Mr
Ben Archer
Associate Lecturer
Continuing and Community Education
educational access
career development

Dr.
Faiza Muhammad Din
Lecturer Urdu & Post-doc, Institute for Asian and African studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
Urdu,

Professor
Kama Maclean
Chair of History, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
19th-20th century British India

Dr
Kelzang T. Tashi
Posdoctoral Fellow
Social and Cultural Anthropology
South Asia
Religion and Society

PhD
Laila Bushra
Tutor, School of Social and Political Science
Historical sociology
Political economy and social change

Dr
Mark Macleod
Chair, TasWriters; Adjunct Senior Lecturer Charles Sturt University
Children's Literature; Creative Writing

Dr
Mohammad Mizanur Rahman
Research Associate (Non-resident), Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp and Secretary-General, South Asian Network for Public Administration (SANPA)
Career civil servant with a PhD and research contributions

Mrs
Neeti Goutam
Strategic Lead Communications ASIA
Researcher
COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES
South Asia

Dr
Nirukshi Perera
Research Fellow
Language, people and society (Sociolinguistics)
sri lanka
South Asian diasporas



PhD
TRAN MY HAI LOC
Deputy Head of Department of Diplomatic Politics, Faculty of International Relations | HUFLIT
Foreign policy analysis
defense cooperation
Global Governance