BA University of Toronto
MA University of Toronto
PHD Duke University

Office Hours:
RELIGION Office Hours: Spring 2012 - Mon. 1:00-3:00 & by appointment

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music
Music Studios 313
860-685-2577

balu@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Madras
MA University of Madras
MPHIL University of Madras

MUSC110 - 01
Intro to South Indian Music

MUSC430 - 01
South Indian Voice-Beginning

Office Hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 noon

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
222 Church Street 117
860-685-2454

Assistant Professor, Science in Society
222 Church Street 114
860-685-2454

Affiliated Faculty in Environmental Studies Program

ggoslinga@wesleyan.edu

BA Smith College
MA University Southern Calif
PHD University Calif Santa Crz

ENVS419 - 02
Student Forum

ENVS305 - 01
Moral Ecologies

Office Hours:

Allbritton 116-117, Wednesdays 4 -5:30 pm and by appointment.

Research Interests:

My driving research interest is ontological politics in zones of encounter between religion and science, indigenous healing systems and biomedicine, and anthropology and its others. I am especially interested in social phenomena that destabilize modern empirical categories of thought, analysis, and experience. For example: gestational surrogacy (mothers who are not mothers), spirit possession and religious healing (bodies that are multiply inhabited), agential nature (for example mountains that "hear" humans) and virgin births (conceptions that are not biological sex). My earlier work concerned epistemologies of embodiment in a U.S. gestational surrogacy arrangement. My current book project,Virgin Birth in South India: Ontology in the Borderlands of Old and New Reproductive Technologies,experiments with how to interpret the virgin birth claims of the women devotees of a South India god who has the paradoxical reputation of causing and curing infertility both. Considered alongside the arrival of the "new" reproductive technologies in Tamil Nadu and quickly came to code the modernity of the region, I argue that to encounter these virgin birth claims on their own terms, interpretation must be disengaged from the legacies of 19th century social thought in which the social and the biological came together in a ferociously positivist and colonialist political project that leaves little to no room for thinking about the facts of life outside of it. My future research will consider the ontological politics of agential nature, that is, claims that nature, like the South India god Paandi, empirically "responds" to humans.

Scholarly Keywords:

Critical medical anthropology, philosophical anthropology, feminist science studies, political ontology, materiality and embodiment, nature-culture debates,reproductive technolgies, incommensurable religious phenomena,visual anthropology, feminist and experimental ethnography.

Academic Associations:

American Anthropological Association Society for Feminist Anthropology Society for the Anthropology of Religion Society for Visual Anthropology Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness

Grants:

Wesleyan hiring grant (2009-2012), American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship (2007-2008) Social Science Research Council IDFR (2000-2002) UC Regents Writing and Research grants (1996-2005)

Professor of Religion
171 Church Street
860-685-2293

pgottschalk@wesleyan.edu

BA College of the Holy Cross
MA Univ of Wisconsin Fond Du Lac
PHD University of Chicago

RELI151 - 01
Introduction to Religion

RELI151 - 02
Introduction to Religion

RELI381 - 01
Religions Resist Modernity

RELI221 - 01
Islam and Muslim Cultures

RELI221 - 02
Islam and Muslim Cultures

Personal Web Site:
http://pgottschalk.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

Spring 2013: Tuesday 2:00-3:00, Thursday 10:30-11:30 & by appointment

Research Interests:

- Hindu-Muslim relations in contemporary India. - British ways of knowing India, Indians, and their religions. - American perceptions of Muslims and Islam.

Scholarly Keywords:

Hindu and Muslim cultures of India

Academic Associations:

American Academy of Religion South Asia Muslim Studies Association

Grants:

- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Grant - (2004-2005). - Mellon New Initiative Grant - (2004-2006).

- co-author with Gabriel Greenberg of Islamophobia: Muslims and Islam in American Political Cartoons (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) co-editor with Mathew N. Schmalz of Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances (SUNY, forthcoming) - co-designer with Mathew N. Schmalz of A Virtual Village (http:virtualvillage.wesleyan.edu) - author of Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India (Oxford, 2000)

Associate Professor of American Studies
255 High Street 205
860-685-3625

ikaramcheti@wesleyan.edu

BA University Calif Santa Bar
MA University Calif Santa Bar
PHD University Calif Santa Bar

AMST120 - 01
The Nobel Writers

AMST200 - 01
Colonialism & Its Consequences

AMST241 - 01
Childhood in America

HUMS614 - 01
Personalizing History

AMST247 - 01
Caribbean Writers in the U.S.

AMST318 - 01
New England and Empire

HUMS622 - 01
The Third Woman

Office Hours:
Fall 2012: Location: 255 High St #205: Wednesday 10-12

Research Interests:
Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies Indira Karamcheti is an important new voice in the field of postcolonial literature. Her broad ranging interests in the geographics of marginality encompasses Caribbean and African-American literatures.

BA Kalamazoo College
MFA California Institute of Arts
PHD Wesleyan University

MUSC110 - 01
Intro to South Indian Music

MUSC433 - 01
South Indian Music--Percussion

MUSC212 - 01
South Indian Music-SOLKATTU

MUSC433 - 01
South Indian Music--Percussion

Personal Web Site:
http://dpnelson.web.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
By Appointment

Research Interests:
I am interested in digitization of historic recordings of South Indian music, particularly video recordings when available. I am also undertaking a self-study of jazz harmony on the piano, a study that has gone on for the last two years.

Scholarly Keywords:
Music of South India, South Indian drumming

Publications:
http://dpnelson.web.wesleyan.edu/publications.html

Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 323
860-685-2399

wpinch@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Virginia
MA University of Virginia
PHD University of Virginia

HIST181 - 01
Sophomore Seminar: Gandhi

HIST362 - 01
Issues Contemp Historiography

HIST362 - 02
Issues Contemp Historiography

HIST362 - 03
Issues Contemp Historiography

HIST285 - 01
Modern India

HIST317 - 01
The Great Game

Personal Web Site:
http://wpinch.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

Fall 2013:

Scholarly Keywords:

South Asia; British Empire; Mughal Empire; Religion and History; Maritime History; World History

Grants:

NEH, Fulbright-Nehru, Fulbright-Hays, ACLS, SSRC, FLAS, AIIS, Meigs

Publications:
http://wpinch.faculty.wesleyan.edu/research/

BA Eugene Lang College
MA Stanford University
MA Columbia University
PHD Stanford University

ANTH259 - 01
Anthropology of Development

ANTH295 - 01
Theory 1: Anth and Pol Economy

ANTH302 - 01
Critical Perspectives on State

Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-4

Professor of Art History
41 Wyllys Avenue 311
860-685-3779

Chair, Archaeology Program
860-685-3779

Professor, Archaeology Program
860-685-3779

pwagoner@wesleyan.edu

BA Kenyon College
PHD University of Wisconsin

ARHA181 - 01
Mughal India:Intro Art History

ARHA286 - 01
Empire And Erotica

ARHA290 - 01
Epic and Indian Visual Culture

ARHA383 - 01
Monument, Site, and Memory

Office Hours:

Most days and times available by appointment, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Room 311

Research Interests:

Phillip B. Wagoner's research focuses on the cultural history of the Deccan region of South India, primarily in the late medieval and early modern periods (1200-1600). His primary interest is in the historical interactions between the region's established Indic culture and the Persianate culture that arrived when the Delhi Sultanate annexed the region in the early fourteenth century. To study the dynamics of this process, he relies on a broad range of literary, epigraphic, architectural, and archaeological evidence, gathered over the course of numerous trips to the field since the early 1980s. Since 1987, he has been associated with the Vijayanagara Research Project, an international team of scholars in different disciplines dedicated to documentation and interpretation of the site of Vijayanagara, capital of the state that dominated the southern part of the Indian peninsula between the 1340s and 1565. This work has led to the publication of two books; one on late sixteenth-century understandings of Vijayanagara based on a Telugu historiographic text written in the region some 35 years after the collapse of the state (Tidings of the King: a Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Rayavacakamu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1993), and the other a 3-volume work presenting comprehensive architectural documentation of the over 400 temples and other structures preserved in one key zone of the site (co-authored with George Michell,Vijayanagara: Architectural Inventory of the Sacred Centre, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies and Manohar, 2001). He has also published numerous articles on various topics relating to Vijayanagara, including the pre-Vijayanagara history of the site, the reuse of architectural components retrieved from earlier buildings, the system of elite dress at the Vijayanagara court, the ability of political elites to move between the Indic and Persianate worlds, and the significance of Sanskrit historiographic traditions that represent Vijayanagara as a successor state to the Delhi Sultanate. Since 2000, his work has increasingly focused on Persianate Islamic architecture in the Deccan, and his articles have dealt with topics ranging from the first appearance of Sultanate style architecture in the region in the early fourteenth century, to the founding and design of Hyderabad, laid out as a new capital by the Qutb Shahi sultans in the late 16th century. He is currently completing a book, co-authored with historian Richard M. Eaton, titled Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600.

Scholarly Keywords:

South Asian and Islamic art history, South Indian cultural history, buildings archaeology and urbanism, Telugu language and literature