Research
India Research Faculty
The Modern Indian Studies initiative was established to bring together a wide range of research projects focused on present-day India. The Carolina faculty listed below have conducted or are currently conducting research related to India.
The goal of this database is not only to showcase the breadth of work bridging Carolina and India but also to facilitate new collaborations, projects and opportunities. If you are interested in being added to this list, please complete this short form.
Linda Adair
Carolina Population Center
Debashis Aikat
Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Sameer Arora
School of Medicine
Sridhar Balasubramnian
Keenan-Flagler Business School
Mohit Bansal
Computer Science Department
Peggy Bentley
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Shelah Bloom
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
John Caldwell
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Anusha Chari
Economics Department; Kenan-Flagler Business School
Martin Costello
Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine
Christina Cruz
Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Joe Czabovsky
Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Blossom Damania
Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine
Sreedhari Desai
Keenan-Flagler Business School
Dirk Dittmer
Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine
Carl Ernst
Department of Religious Studies
Emma Flatt
Department of History
Carol Golin
Department of Health Behavior, Department of Medicine, Gillings School of Global Public Health
David Guilkey
Economics Department
William Kalsbeek
Biostatistics, Carolina Population Center
Nikhil Kaza
Department of City and Regional Planning
Lauren Leve
Department of Religious Studies
Pamela Lothspeich
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Musa Manga
The Water Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Elizabeth Mayer-Davis
Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Prema Menezes
Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC School of Medicine
Townsend Middleton
Department of Anthropology
Barry Popkin
Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Rohit Ramaswamy
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Prabir Roy-Chaudhury
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, School of Medicine
Iqbal Sevea
Department of History
Sara Smith
Department of Geography
Ilene Speizer
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Jeff Stringer
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, School of Medicine; Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Jayashankar Swaminathan
Kenan-Flagler Business School
Afroz Taj
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Meenu Tewari
Department of City and Regional Planning