Faculty
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Professors
Sarasij Majumder
Sita and Bhaskara Rao Mutyala Endowed Professor of India Studies
Director of India Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Email: smajumd4@central.uh.edu
![Mohan Ambikaipaker](../../_images/faculty/mohan-picture.jpg)
Mohan Ambikaipaker
Associate Professor & Associate Director, World Cultures and Literatures Program
Ph.D., University of Texas - Austin
Email: mambikai@Central.UH.EDU
![Prashanth](prashant-nandikoor-bhatt/prashanth.jpg)
Prashanth Nandikoor Bhat
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland-College Park
Email: nrbhat2@central.uh.edu
![Nandini Bhattacharya](../_images/2021/nandini-uh.jpeg)
Nandini Bhattacharya
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University College London
Email: nsbhatta@central.uh.edu
![Pratik Chakrabarti](../_images/2021/chakrabarti_headshot.jpg)
Pratik Chakrabarti
Professor, Faculty
Ph.D., Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Email: pchakra7@central.uh.edu
![Sreya Chatterjee](../../../english/_images/faculty/chatterjee.jpg)
Sreya Chatterjee
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., West Virginia University
M.A., Jadavpur University, India
Email: schatterjee6@uh.edu
Office: 235A Roy Cullen Building
Phone: 713.743.7291
CV
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Auritro Majumder
Associate Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Email: amajumder@uh.edu
Office: 234A Roy Cullen Building
Phone: 713.743.5875
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Keith McNeal
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Ph.D., Emory University
Email: kemcneal@uh.edu
Office: 258D McElhinney Hall
Phone: 713.743.3987
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Arif Hayat Nairang
Post-Doctoral Scholar in India Studies
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Email: anairang@central.uh.edu
![Tanika Raychaudhuri](../_images/2021/tanika-raychaudhuri-head-shot.jpeg)
Tanika Raychaudhuri
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.A., Politics, Princeton University
Email: traychaudhuri@uh.edu
CV
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Debarati Sen
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Email: dsen2@central.uh.edu
Office: 258B Philip G. Hoffman Hall
![Ivan Small](../../../ccs/_images/people/0-ivan-small.jpg)
Ivan Small
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies
Ph.D., Cornell University
Email: ivsmall@central.uh.edu
![Bhavya Tiwari](../../_images/faculty/Tiwari.jpg)
Bhavya Tiwari
Associate Professor of India Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
M.A., Jadavpur University, India
Email: btiwari@uh.edu
Office: 435 Agnes Arnold Hall
Phone: 713.743.1737
![Thangavel Vijayalakshmi](../../faculty/vijayalakshmi-thangavel/tv-photo.jpg)
Thangavel Vijayalakshmi
Visiting Professor of Tamil Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Ph.D. University of Kerala
Email: tvijayal@central.uh.edu
Office: 612 Agnes Arnold Hall