Pranab Bardhan, a Cambridge University PhD, has been at Berkeley since 1977, following teaching appointments at MIT and the Delhi School of Economics. He was the chief editor of the Journal of Development Economics for 1985-2003. He was the co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance for 1996-2007. He held the Distinguished Fulbright Siena Chair at the University of Siena, Italy in 2008-9. He is the BP Centennial Professor at London School of Economics for 2010 and 2011.He is the author of 12 books and more than 150 journal...
Vasudha Dalmia is a Professor Emerita of Hindi and Modern South Asian Studies. The body of her work may be described as the study of cultural formations, grouped around four broad thematic clusters: the politics of religious discourse, transitional cultural phenomena of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the politics of the literature of the new nation-state, particularly of modern Indian theatre, and studies of the position of women in these transitions.
Dr. Enoch’s major contributions to optometry include serving as a liaison between optometry and ophthalmology; his emphasis in teaching and research, and the relationship between basic science and clinical applications; his involvement in the formation of the National Eye Institute, and the development in modernizing the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO); as a founder of the Elite School of Optometry in Madras, India (1985); and his forming of the Pathology Section of the American Academy of Optometry with Harold Simmerman.
Robert Goldman is the William and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit and India Studies. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and has taught and held fellowships and several academic institutions around the world, including the University of Rochester, Oxford University, Jadavpur University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. His areas of scholarly interest include Sanskrit literature and literary theory, Indian Epic Studies, and psychoanalytically oriented cultural studies.
Sally J. Sutherland Goldman received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979, where she has taught Sanskrit and related subjects since 1981. She is the Associate Editor of the VālmīkiRāmāyaṇa Translation Project. She is the co-annotator of the Bālakāṇḍa (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), and co-translator of the Sundarakāṇḍa (Princeton: Princeton University Press,1996), Yuddhakāṇḍa (Princeton: Princeton University Press,2016), and the Uttarakāṇḍa (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).
George Hart has taught all areas of Tamil literature as well as courses on Indian Civilization, Indian literature, and Indian religion. His latest publication (with Hank Heifetz) is an annotated translation of the great Tamil classic, The 400 Poems of Wisdom and War (The Purananuru). He has written extensively on premodern Tamil, its relationship to classical Sanskrit, and South Indian religion and culture. He has also translated several important works from Tamil, and his work was nominated for The American Book Award.
Kausalya Hart has prepared voluminous materials for learning Tamil and has written Tamil for Beginners, which is used at many universities and has been translated into several languages. She has also written several Tamil plays, which have been performed by Berkeley students, and has translated from premodern Tamil. In addition to all levels of Tamil, her teaching includes South Indian music and dance and culture. She has written papers on various aspects of Tamil literature, including the Tamil Ramayana and early Christian literature.
Mrs. Usha Jain taught all levels of Hindi and was nominated one of "The Top 28 Professors" in a survey done by the Associated Students of the University of California Primer (1976). She is also the recipient of the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award for 2001-2002. Mrs. Jain is the author of Introduction to Hindi Grammar (1995), Intermediate Hindi Reader (1999), Intermediate Hindi Multimedia Reader, an interactive computer courseware CD-ROM (2000), and Advanced Hindi Grammar (2007). She is also the author of The Gujaratis of San Francisco (...
