Faculty and Staff

The Mattoo Center for India Studies is home to a distinguished group of scholars whose teaching and research span linguistics, religious studies, philosophy, and the arts of India. Meet the core faculty, adjunct instructors, and research scholars who bring this expertise to Stony Brook University.

Faculty

S.N. Sridhar

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SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
Professor of Linguistics and India Studies
Director, Mattoo Center for India Studies

William Chittick

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Professor of Islamic Intellectual History
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Asian and Asian American Studies, Director of Religious Studies

Kamal Sridhar

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Professor Emerita, Linguistics and India Studies
Associate Director, Mattoo Center for India Studies

Arindam Chakrabarti

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Inaugural holder of the Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Classical Indic Humanities

Andrew Nicholson

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Assoc. Professor of Hinduism and Indian Philosophy
Dept. of Asian and Asian American Studies, Director of South Asian Studies

 

Adjunct Faculty & Scholars

Aruna Sharma

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Adjunct Faculty
Dept. of Asian and Asian American Studies
Indian (Hindustani) Classical Music, Hindi