School of Humanities and Sciences

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  • Zarif Ahsan

    Zarif Ahsan

    Qsr Student Staff, Dean for Community Engagement and Diversity
    Undergraduate, Mathematics
    Csa - Markaz Fellow 2024-25, South Asian Studies

  • Lalita du Perron

    Lalita du Perron

    Associate Director, Center for South Asian Studies, South Asian Studies

  • Shikha Nehra

    Shikha Nehra

    Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2019
    South Asia Working Group Fellow, South Asian Studies

    BioShikha Nehra is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Stanford University. She is conducting dissertation research on the emerging idioms and forms of political belonging in India's north-eastern state of Assam. Her ethnographic and archival research in Assam explores questions of political membership for Muslim communities through its sociocultural terrain, tracing the contribution of different ethnic and literary associations in claiming recognition as indigenous or legal citizens through complex registers of language, identity and belonging. Her broader fields of interest include nationalism, populism, state and sovereignty, bureaucracy, citizenship, subjectivity, and identity-formation.

  • Kala Seetharam Sridhar

    Kala Seetharam Sridhar

    Affiliate, South Asian Studies

    BioKala S Sridhar is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Center for South Asia (CSA) during March-August 2025. She is a professor, Centre for Research in Urban Affairs, Institute for Social and Economic Change, in Bengaluru, India. She has authored/edited books published by Routledge, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, and Sage, and papers in journals like Regional Science and Urban Economics, Urban Studies, Applied Economics, Area Development & Policy and Environment and Urbanization Asia, among others.

    Kala has visited the United Nations University’s World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) multiple times as visiting scholar. Recipient of the Fulbright Nehru fellowship, she was hosted by University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin School of Public Affairs, Dept of Urban Planning, in 2021 and 2022. She was a visiting scholar at George Mason University during June-July 2023. She was an Honorary Fellow at Stanford's CSA during June-August 2024. She has done extensive research for the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She is Managing Editor of Journal of Social and Economic Development (Springer). She is on the editorial advisory board of journals like Area Development and Policy (Taylor & Francis), Urban India, and Frontiers in Built Environment-Urban Science. She is presently guiding 4 Ph.D. students on various topics including housing affordability, regional disparities in healthcare infrastructure, stringency of land use regulations and the provision of amenities in peri-urban areas. Four students have graduated with PhD under her guidance, and one is awaiting the final defense of her thesis.

    Kala was empanelled to be Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Chair Professor of Indian Studies (Economics) in Foreign Universities (2015). She has won several international awards for her research on urbanization including the highly competitive Global Development Network medal for outstanding research on development, and national awards such as the VKRV Rao prize for her contribution to social sciences. She was among the top 10% of authors globally on the Social Science Research Network as of August 2024. She has a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, and M.S. from the University of Iowa.