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Centre for South Asian Studies

Beatrice Jauregui

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Corruption
  • Police
  • Policing
  • Political-legal ethnography
  • Security
  • South Asia
  • State violence
  • Veterans

Office: 416-978-6438
Languages: Hindi
Website
Email: beatrice.jauregui@utoronto.ca
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Christoph Emmrich

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Buddhism Hinduism and Jainism
  • Nepal Burma and Tamil Nadu (India)
  • Newar; Nepali, Burmese, Mon, Tamil, Sanskrit and Pali languages and literatures
  • Religion; ritual, gender, children, girl children‎, time, travel and memory
  • South Asia and Southeast Asia
  • The Newars the Mon and the Tamilians

Office: 416-978-6463
Email: christoph.emmrich@utoronto.ca
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Kanta Murali

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative Political Economy of Development
  • Ethnicity and Economic Development
  • Indian politics
  • Inequality
  • Labour policy
  • Politics of development and economic policy in India
  • State Capacity
  • State-Business Relations

Office: 416-978-8492
Mobile: 647-964-1870
Website
Email: kanta.murali@utoronto.ca
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Ken MacDonald

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural Identity in Northern Pakistan
  • Cultural identity politics
  • Culture and biodiversity conservation
  • Environment and development
  • Ethics and development
  • Exploitation of mountaineering porters
  • Kashmir
  • Natural hazards and vulnerability
  • New cultural ecologies of consumption
  • Restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation

Office: (416) 287-7294
Home: 416-466-2651
Languages: Balti
Website
Email: ken.macdonald@utoronto.ca
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Shashi Kant

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aboriginal Values and Sustainability
  • Ecological Economics
  • Economics of Sustainable Forest Management
  • Experimental Economics
  • Extending the boundaries of forest economics beyond the economics of timber.
  • Love and Sustainability
  • Quantification and Strategies to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Office: 905-569-5739
Languages: Hindi
Website
Email: shashi.kant@utoronto.ca
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