Director, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies; Associate Professor
Institute for South Asia Studies
South and Southeast Asian Studies
Munis D. Faruqui is a historian. His focus is on the Muslim experience in South Asia, especially during the Mughal period. His books include Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History, co-edited with Richard Eaton, David Gilmartin and Sunil Kumar (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and Religious Interactions in Mughal India, co-edited with Vasudha Dalmia (Oxford University Press, 2014). He has recently completed a book (forthcoming...
Jennifer Bussell is a political scientist with an interest in comparative politics and the political economy of development and governance, principally in South Asia and Africa. Her research considers the effects of formal and informal institutions—such as corruption, coalition politics, and federalism—on policy outcomes. She is the Director of the Center on Contemporary India at the Institute for South Asia Studies.
Her newest book, Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies (Modern South Asia Series, Oxford University Press), considers the...
Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies
Gender and Women's Studies
Global Studies
Elora Shehabuddin is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Global Studies and Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at the Institute for South Asia Studies. She was Professor of Transnational Asian Studies and Core Faculty in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University prior to moving to Berkeley in 2022. She was Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science at UC Irvine in 1999–2001. She received her A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University...
