Graduate Affiliates

Cherene Aniyan

Information: cherene.aniyan@rutgers.edu; Department: History; Field(s) of Study: Indian Ocean diasporas, South Asia and the Middle East

Avigyan Banerjee

Information: ab2679@history.rutgers.edu; Department: History; Field(s) of Study: Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia; Death, Dying and End of Life; Urban and Spatial Histories

Sangeeta Banerji

Information: sangeeta.banerji@rutgers.edu; Department: Geography; Field(s) of Study: Urban studies, bureaucracy, state space, development, brokerage

Vero Chai

Information: sc2268@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Department: Department: Comparative Literature; Field(s) of Study: Asian Diaspora, Archival Theory, Self Writing, Cinema, Documentary, Photography, Artists’ Books

Chang-hyun Choi

Information: changhyun.choi@rutgers.edu; Department: Anthropology; Field(s) of Study: Masculinity; Postcolonial Cold War; Feminist Activism; Korea; Asian American; Ethnographic Filmmaking.

Thomas Crowley

Information: thomas.crowley@rutgers.edu; Department: Department: Geography; Field(s) of Study: political ecology of caste, Maharashtra, postcolonial Marxisms

Indira Das

Information: indira.das@rutgers.edu; Department: Department: Linguistics; Field(s) of Study: Syntax, Morphology, Language fieldwork

Laura De Moya Guerra

Information: lcd88@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Department: History; Field(s) of Study: Chinese diaspora in Latin America, 20th- and 21-century Chinese immigrants in Colombia

Erica Fugger

Information: erica.fugger@rutgers.edu; Department: American Studies-SAS Newark; Field(s) of Study: Oral history, memory studies, human rights, World War II, and peace movements

Rudrani Gallapudi

Information: rrg86@english.rutgers.edu; Department: Department: English; Field(s) of Study: Asian American Literature

Rudrani Gangopadhyay

Information: rudrani.g@rutgers.edu; Department: Comparative Literature; Field(s) of Study: South Asian literatures and graphic narratives, Cinema Studies, Urban Humanities

Swathi Gorle

Information: stutigovil@gmail.com; Department: Art History & Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies; Field(s) of Study: South Asian Cultural Heritage, focusing on pilgrimages in South India (Andhra Pradesh)

Stuti Govil

Information: stutigovil@gmail.com; Department: Geography; Field(s) of Study: Urban Geography, Cities, Homelessness, Social Theory, Media Urbanism

Shiori Ikawa

Information: shiori.ikawa@rutgers.edu; Department: Linguistics; Field(s) of Study: Syntax, Morphology

Sadaf Javed

Information: sadaf.javed@rutgers.edu; Department: Geography; Field(s) of Study: Agroecology, local food systems, human-environment relations, agrarian change, political ecology

Yuanqui Jiang

Information: yuanqiu.jiang@rutgers.edu; Department: Comparative Literature; Field(s) of Study: Medieval Chinese poetry, literary theory, comparative poetics

June Kuoch

Information: june.kuoch@rutgers.edu; Department: WGSS; Field(s) of Study: Critical refugee studies; Cambodian/Cambodian diaspora studies; women of color feminism; Asian settler-colonialism; theories of abolition

Sujee Jung

Information: suzy.jung@ejb.rutgers.edu; Department: Bloustein; Field(s) of Study: Urban planning in Hanoi

Smruthi Bala Kannan

Information: smruthibala.kannan@rutgers.edu; Department: Childhood Studies

Sneha Khaund

Information: sk2211@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Department: Comparative Literature; Field(s) of Study: Multilingualism, World Literature, Translation, Decoloniality, Northeast India

Dongjoon Kim

Information: dongjoon.kim@rutgers.edu; Department: Spanish and Portuguese; Field(s) of Study: Latin American Literature, transnational history, collective identity

Rashmi Kumari

Information: rashmi.k@rutgers.edu; Department: Childhood Studies; Field(s) of Study: Childhoods, Violence and Conflict, Indigeneity, South Asia

Saad Latif

Information: sl976@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Department: History; Field(s) of Study: Islamic history; Transnational Islam; Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies; Pakistan; Digital humanities

Eleanor Eriko Tsuchiya Lenoe

Information: eel59@history.rutgers.edu; Department: History; Field(s) of Study: Women’s and gender history; transpacific histories of Japan and the US; intimate migration; family history; girlhood and childhood studies

Rong (Aries) Li

Information: rl502@history.rutgers.edu; Department: History; Field(s) of Study: history of U.S.-China relations, memory studies, modern U.S history, modern Chinese history

Mich Ling

Information: m.ling@rutgers.edu; Department: WGSS; Field(s) of Study: Asian diaspora studies, settler colonialism and critical indigenous studies, Pacific/Trans-Pacific studies, Black feminist theory, transnational feminism

Alysse Moldawer

Information: alysse.moldawer@rutgers.edu; Department: Anthropology; Field(s) of Study: Orangutan conservation in Indonesia

Pritha Mukherjee

Information: pritha.mukherjee@rutgers.edu; Department: Art History; Field(s) of Study: South Asian Visual Culture, focusing on eastern India

Suddhadeep Mukherjee

Information: sm2769@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Department: Comparative Literature; Field(s) of Study: South Asian Women’s Writings, Dalit Literature, Orality, Indigeneity, Translation

Nikaytaa

Information: nikay.taa@rutgers.edu; Department: Media and Gender Studies; Field(s) of Study: South Asia, Saris, Hindu and caste identity, Queerness and Drag

Suyog Prajapati

Information: stutigovil@gmail.com; Department: Art History; Field(s) of Study: Medieval South Asian art and architecture; material transmission; Nepal; Buddhism

Sreekar Raghotham

Information: sreekar.raghotham@rutgers.edu; Department: Linguistics; Field(s) of Study: Natural Language Syntax, Semantics, Morphology

Jian Ren

Information: jr1369@history.rutgers.edu; Department: History; Field(s) of Study: Chinese diaspora in Latin America, China-Latin America Cold War Relations

Hoang Thach

Information: hmt46@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Department: Geography; Field(s) of Study: Rewilding in Vietnam

Ooha Uppalapati

Information: ou13@scarletmail.rutgers.edu; Department: Planning and Public Policy

Sara Varanese

Information: sara.varanese@rutgers.edu; Department: Art History; Field(s) of Study: South Asian architecture and urban landscapes, Medieval period, Odisha

Sahithya Venkatesan

Information: sahithya.venkat@rutgers.edu; Department: Geography; Field(s) of Study: Fisheries, political ecology, alternative economies, India

Xingming Wang

Information: xw367@complit.rutgers.edu; Department: Comparative Literature; Field(s) of Study: Chinese Literature, Environmental Humanities

Julian Wong-Nelson

Information: julian.wong.nelson@rutgers.edu; Department: Art History; Field(s) of Study: Performance Studies, Queer Theory, Asian Diaspora, Photography, Cinema and Video

Sweta Xess

Information: Department: Geography; Field(s) of Study: Urban geography, waste, caste studies

“Coco” Ke Xu

Information: coco.ke.xu@rutgers.edu; Department: Comparative Literature; Field(s) of Study: Radio drama, translation, the global 1980s

Yuntian Xuan

Information: yx394@history.rutgers.edu; Department: History; Field(s) of Study: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality, global reception of sexology, contemporary kink communities

Penny Pui Chee Yeung

Information: p.yeung@rutgers.edu; Department: Comparative Literature; Field(s) of Study: translation studies and multilingualism

Mi Hyun Yoon

Information: yoon.mihyun@rutgers.edu; Department: American Studies – Rutgers Newark; Field(s) of Study: Asian American history and politics, modern Korean history and politics, Korean diaspora

Nithi Yupho

Information: s.yupho@rutgers.edu; Department: Geography; Field(s) of Study: Urban flooding in Bangkok